Zoe Ball tells complainers to ‘move on’ after ‘getting grief’ over song choice

Zoe Ball urged listeners to “move on” and stop complaining after they took issue with the songs she’s chosen to play during the live broadcast.

One fan said their son was tormenting them with continuous broadcasts of The Lion Sleeps Tonight after hearing it on Zoe’s show.

She read out the complaint on her show today, saying: “My three-year-old son has put ‘In the jungle, the mighty jungle’ on repeat on the smart speaker.”

A bashful Zoe joked: “Please send my apologies.”

However, she was less patient about fan’s dislike of another item on her playlist.

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“I’m still getting grief because we played the Birdie song the other day – people have not forgiven me! Let’s move on, everybody,” she urged.

The Birdie song, also known as the Chicken Dance, is a popular “drinking and dancing” song at Oktoberfest, but it seems it isn’t for everyone.

Zoe admittedly had a better reception during the first breakfast show she ever hosted on BBC Radio 2 when she wowed fans with Aretha Franklin’s hit Respect’

The 48-year-old was also the first woman to take over the breakfast time slot for the station, so insisted it was only natural that her first song choice “had to be [by] a dame”.

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“They come no greater than the Queen of Soul and Respect,” she enthused when she began the show back in 2019.

Zoe began bright and early that morning at 5:30am to replace former host Chris Evans, declaring she was “super excited” – and that’s a mood she’s continued to embrace throughout her shows.

Her first guests John Cleese and Great British Bake Off champ Nadiya Hussain, who’d baked a cake for her specially for the occasion.

She even received a good luck video from fellow presenter Jo Wiley.

Though Zoe had also been presenting the Strictly Come Dancing spinoff show It Takes Two at the time, having her own radio show had been provoking “anxiety dreams”.

“It makes my tummy go giddy when I think about the first show,” she admitted at the time, adding: “I just want to get on with it.”

She concluded: “I can’t quite believe that it’s happening. I just hope that I can do a show that Britain wants to wake up to.”

That’s certainly been true for many, with millions of listeners regularly tuning in.

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