Scott Mills is set to take over the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show from January 27 following Zoe Ball’s departure from the role, the station has announced.
Zoe, 54, signed off her last show on December 20 after helming the programme for six years. Trevor Nelson will now be taking over Mills’s previous weekday slot of 2pm to 4pm on the same day, while Nelson’s former late night Monday to Thursday slot will be filled by DJ Spoony’s The Good Groove show.
Scott, 51, replaced Zoe on her morning show on the airwaves, switching from Radio 1. However, despite being with the organisation since 1998, he has confessed his time was almost cut short by furious bosses.
Scott was talking to Dermot O’Leary when he revealed how his boozy antics almost cost him his job. He opened up on the altercation that had followed a night out after the Brit Awards. After Dermot played a clip of Scott slurring his words on his early morning Radio 1 show in 2001.
He confessed that was the moment he was almost removed from his role by bosses, admitting: “That’s called how to really nearly lose your job at BBC.
“I had gotten carried away so much at the Brit Awards, because I had never been there before, and time just fast-forwarded, and somebody went, what time are you on air? And I said, ‘Four?’ and they went, ‘Well, it’s two now’. Oh no! It was horrendous.”
Scott claimed his actions were “naive and stupid”, explaining how his bosses were “quite rightly” furious. “And also, there was a thing, at Radio 1 then, called the den,” he went on. “This probably wasn’t allowed, but why go home when you can have a couple hours of sleep in the den? I mean, I was young, I’m in my 20s, right?”
Scott’s admission comes as he remains a popular figure within the organisation’s listeners. His previous roles have had him presenting the 2-4pm slot on BBC Radio 2 as well as the early start on Radio 1.
After the announcement he was replacing Zoe, who had presented the breakfast slot for six years, Scott revealed how she had helped him 20 years ago.
In November, he opened up on a small mistake Zoe made years ago, which, in an unexpected turn of events, helped propel his career forward. He explained to her: “I will never forget how you really took me under your wing and you really looked after me because I didn’t know one person there.”
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