Scott Mills sacked by BBC over ‘personal conduct’ allegation

The 53-year-old replaced Zoe Ball as the presenter of Radio 2’s breakfast show in January 2025 after a long career at the broadcaster.

The Eastleigh-born DJ was taken off air on his Radio 2 show last Tuesday (March 23) while the BBC assessed the information.

The Mirror reports that his contract was terminated over the weekend.

In a statement, the BBC said: “While we do not comment on matters relating to individuals we can confirm Scott Mills is no longer contracted and has left the BBC”.

The career of Scott Mills

Mills began his career at the age of 16 as a DJ on his local Hampshire commercial radio station, Power FM.

He was given an opportunity to present a week’s worth of shows, and based on the success of this, he was offered the ‘graveyard’ slot of 1am to 6am.

This made him the youngest permanent presenter on mainstream commercial radio.

He moved from Power FM to GWR FM Bristol and then Piccadilly Key 103 in Manchester on the late-night slot.

Mills moved onto the mid-morning show there before working for new London station Heart 106.2 in 1995.

He then joined BBC Radio 1 in October 1998 to present the early breakfast show which was broadcast between 4am and 7am.

In January 2004, Mills moved to a weekend afternoon slot, which was followed by a further move later that year to the weekday early-evening slot, which was vacant due to Sara Cox’s maternity leave.

Cox did not return , and Mills became a permanent presenter of the early evening programme, which was renamed The Scott Mills Show.

The programme moved to an afternoon slot in April 2012 when Mills swapped presenting duties with Greg James.

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Whilst at Radio 1, Mills also provided holiday cover for other presenters as well as hosting The Official Chart between June 2018 and August 2022.

Mills joined Radio 2’s weekday schedule in 2022 when he replaced Steve Wright as the host of the afternoon slot.

Prior to that, he worked on Radio 1 and hosted a weekend show on BBC Radio 5 Live.