Zoe Ball has explained that she quit her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show gig to be there for her daughter Nelly, 15, as she navigates GCSEs – but that the teenager is never at home anyway.

The 54-year-old broadcaster got candid on the latest episode of comedians Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe’s Parenting Hell podcast, while discussing her and ex-husband Fatboy Slim’s two children; Nelly, 15, and Woody, 25.

During the chat, she touched on her Radio 2 breakfast show exit, and admitted things haven’t quite worked out as she anticipated.

‘I gave up work because she’s going to do her GCSEs, but she’s never here, she’s out with her mates,’ Zoe explained of Nelly as the co-hosts chuckled.

‘I’m like, “I’ve given up work for you!”‘ said Zoe, who turned her back on a £950,000-a-year salary following

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