Zoe Ball has reportedly lost one million listeners from her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show after taking over from Chris Evans in January.
The show has raked in the lowest amount of listeners in a decade, with 7.9 million tuning in, compared to 8.82 million weekly listeners last year.
The figures are the lowest they’ve been since 2009, when Sir Terry Wogan hosted the show, with just 7.76 million of the British public tuning in.
However, it’s not all bad news for Zoe and Radio 2 as it’s still actually the most listened-to breakfast show in the country.
A Radio 2 spokesperson told Metro.co.uk in a statement: ‘Radio 2 remains the most listened-to Radio station in the UK.
‘Some fluctuation is expected, particularly over the summer months, and we remain incredibly proud of our distinctive output, huge range of popular and specialist music and outstanding line-up of presenters, who entertain over 14.1 million people each week.’
However, it’s not the first time there have been reports of the It Takes Two star’s ratings dropping, after the show lost 780,000 listeners back in August following Chris’ departure.
Meanwhile, Ken Bruce’s show has retained its title as the most listened-to radio show in the UK. Not too shabby.
Zoe took over from Chris back in January 2019, after he’d hosted the morning show for an impressive eight years.
The 48-year-old has also been busy hosting It Takes Two, the Strictly Come Dancing spin-off show.
Not everything was smooth sailing over there either, after it was reported that she and co-star Rylan Clark-Neal had been embroiled in a row.
However, Rylan was quick to come clean on what actually happened – and it was a whole lot less dramatic than everyone had imagined.
‘The fans of Strictly are on it,’ Rylan said. ‘There was a story this morning saying me and Zoe had a massive bust-up on Friday in rehearsals.’
‘Yeah a big old bust-up,’ he added sarcastically before explaining what really went down.
Rubbishing the claims, Rylan revealed: ‘I was late, I missed rehearsals. I was flying back from my DJ gig. It was news to me.’
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