Welcome back, Zoe... Let's just hope you're here to stay this time! Review by JANE FRYER

An awful lot has happened in the past six weeks. And Zoe Ball, the BBC’s highest paid presenter – on nearly £1million a year – has been off on extended unexplained leave, leaving the BBC scrabbling to fill her prime-time breakfast slot on Radio 2 with a rotating band of co-presenters, while everyone else has been asking: ‘Where on earth is Zoe?’ Zoe Ball, the BBC ’s highest paid presenter – on nearly £1million a year – has been off on extended unexplained leave On Sunday, Zoe announced she’d be back and, yesterday, there she was on the radio, at 6.30am sharp. ‘I don’t know where to start.’ The BBC scrabblied to fill her prime-time breakfast slot on Radio 2 with a rotating band of co-presenters, while everyone else has been asking: ‘Where on earth is Zoe?' Not just because Zoe is paid so much – £4,750 per episode – and hosts the UK’s most popular breakfast radio show. It perhaps didn’t help that, every so often, there’d be a ‘Zoe sighting’ And then her son Woody took to social media to say he’d ‘stepped up’ to support her lately Of course, if poor Zoe, 53, has been having a mid-life wobble and needed some compassionate leave, it would be completely understandable – her mother, Julia Peckham died earlier this year after a horribly short battle with pancreatic cancer.