Everything we know about Zoe Ball’s family as she exits Radio 2’s Breakfast Show

Zoe Ball shocked viewers contiguous erstwhile she announced that she’s leavingRadio 2’s Breakfast Show aft six years arsenic the host.

The presenter said she’s leaving the programme to ‘focus connected family’ and her replacement has been confirmed as Scott Mills.

The 53-year-old volition stay connected the presumption until December, erstwhile chap Radio 2 presenter Scott, 51 – who filled successful for mum-of-two during her unexplained absence earlier this twelvemonth – volition beryllium officially instrumentality over.

Zoe said this morning: ‘After six unthinkable years connected the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, it’s clip for maine to measurement distant from the precise aboriginal mornings and absorption connected family. It’s been a privilege.

‘I deliberation the satellite of you listeners and I’m grateful to my bosses present for their support, particularly this year.

‘Huge acknowledgment spell to my awesome squad connected the show, Tina, Mike and Richie, and of people our listeners, with whom I’ve shared immoderate of life’s highs and lows, the good, the atrocious and the daft times.’

‘My past amusement volition beryllium connected Friday December 20, conscionable successful clip for Christmas with plentifulness of amusive and shenanigans.

‘While I’m stepping distant from the Breakfast Show, I’m not disappearing wholly – I’ll inactive beryllium a portion of the Radio 2 family, with much quality successful the New Year.

‘I’m excited to clasp my adjacent chapter, including being a mum successful the mornings, and I can’t hold to tune successful connected the schoolhouse run!’

It’s been a tumultuous twelvemonth for Zoe, with her mum dying successful April, conscionable 12 weeks aft she was diagnosed with cancer.

Zoe announced her parent Julia Peckham’s pancreatic crab diagnosis successful March, subsequently taking clip disconnected enactment to attraction for her.

After Julia died, Zoe was unexpectedly absent from her vigor show for a play of time, reportedly spending much clip with her household and dealing with ‘grief, anxiety, and depression’.

Who is Zoe Ball joined to?

Zoe, 53, was joined to Norman Cook, 61, from 1999 until 2020.

Cook, who uses the signifier sanction Fatboy Slim, is simply a DJ and shaper who was integral successful creating the large bushed genre successful the 1990s.

The brace stay adjacent friends and share son Woody (born successful 2000) and girl Nelly (born successful 2010).

The pair, who met successful Ibiza successful 1997, archetypal divided aft Norman discovered Zoe had been unfaithful with DJ Dan Peppe.

He antecedently told reporters: ‘I inactive emotion her. If you emotion someone, you’ll forgive them.’

After reconciling, they welcomed their 2nd child, but successful 2016, Zoe and Norman separated for good.

Since their separation, the stars person remained adjacent friends, with Zoe reportedly selling her Sussex mansion to move person to him in Brighton conscionable recently. The brace are often seen together, causing immoderate to speculate astir a imaginable rekindling

Who are Zoe Ball’s children?

Woody Cook, 23, followed successful his celebrated dad’s footsteps and routinely DJs successful the Brighton area.

Woody has besides appeared connected Celebrity Gogglebox with his mother.

In an interrogation with Boys By Girls magazine successful 2019, Woody came retired arsenic bisexual. He admitted helium was ‘more attracted to girls’ and was yet to day a boy, admitting his penchant changed ‘from time to day.’

Speaking astir the infinitesimal helium told his mother, helium said: ‘Her archetypal absorption was: ‘You can’t be, you similar girls?.’ I got her to look backmost upon her radical of friends and she started to realise she knew much bi radical past she thought. I deliberation it was a bigger happening successful her time.’

Zoe besides shares seldom seen 14-year-old Nelly with Norman.

Who are Zoe Ball’s parents?

Zoe Ball’s begetter is Johnny Ball, a fashionable English tv and vigor presenter successful the 70s and 80s. He was joined to Zoe’s mother, Julia Anderson, from 1969 to 1972.

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