Zoe Ball to present BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, replacing Chris Evans

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Zoe Ball is to replace Chris Evans as presenter of the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. “He said ‘Mum, come on, don’t even think about it, it’s the coolest thing you can do, be the first girl on BBC 2 Breakfast!’” Evans, whose wife recently gave birth to twins, announced last month he would be leaving Radio 2 after 13 years at the station, eight of which were spent hosting the breakfast show. The BBC has said the new host of Ball’s Saturday afternoon show will be announced in due course; Sara Cox – who was rumoured to be taking over from Evans – will act as a stand-in for 10 weeks. If it’ll all come out one day as these things tend to, I hope people say, ‘that’s fair’.” Under Evans's tenure as host, the Radio 2 breakfast show has become the most morning show in the UK, attracting an average 9 million listeners every morning.