Truth about Zoe Ball and Fatboy Slim's renewed closeness as friends say 'they're always together'

Zoe Ball, who has this week announced her departure from Radio 2 Breakfast Show, is said to person grown person than ever to her ex-husband Norman Cook, but what are pals saying astir the erstwhile couple's supposedly reignited bond?

As Zoe Ball steps backmost from her Radio 2 Breakfast Show duties, it's been noted however good she's been getting on with her iconic DJ ex Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim.

During yesterday's amusement (November 19), which saw the presenter denote her daze departure to saddened listeners, Zoe, 53, reminisced implicit her and Norman's 1999 wedding astatine Somerset's dreamy Babbington House, remembering, 'That was a bully do'.

Zoe and Norman archetypal locked eyes successful Ibiza successful the summertime of 1997, astatine a clip erstwhile big-beat physics euphony and ace clubs were each the rage. They went connected to navigate assorted ups and downs implicit the people of their 'Cool Britania' epoch marriage, with the revelation that Zoe had cheated with Norman's pal DJ Dan Peppe resulting successful a little separation successful 2003.

In 2016, Zoe and Norman announced that they would beryllium parting ways for good, but remained an important portion of each other's lives, co-parenting children Woody, 23, and Nelly, 14, arsenic a team. And successful caller times, the erstwhile mates person grown peculiarly close, with Zoe acceptable to walk her 54th day watching her ex execute successful North London this weekend.

Shedding airy connected Zoe and Norman's reignited closeness with the Mail Online, a root revealed that Norman is 'very overmuch determination for her' during what has been a unspeakable twelvemonth for the vigor star. In March, Zoe shared that she would beryllium taking clip distant from her presenting duties to attraction for her mum, Julia Peckham, pursuing her pancreatic crab diagnosis.

Julia sadly passed distant conscionable 12 weeks aft diagnosis successful May, with Zoe penning the pursuing poignant Instagram tribute. She wrote: 'Sleep tight, beloved Mama. Thank you for teaching america however to emotion unconditionally and to ever amusement courageousness and empathy. And how, adjacent successful the darkest of days, laughter is the top of gifts.' In August, Zoe temporarily stepped backmost from her greeting presenting duties for a six-week period, returning to the airwaves successful precocious September.

According to the Mail, determination 'are whispers of a caller closeness' betwixt Zoe and Norman, who are some presently single. But immoderate imaginable for a rekindling of their romance is thought to apt conscionable beryllium 'wishful thinking' connected the portion of their galore pals.

During the aboriginal days of her bereavement, Norman was determination for Zoe, with the erstwhile mates seen laughing unneurotic with a radical of radical extracurricular a Hove café, believed to beryllium owned by Norman, up of her instrumentality to Radio 2. Zoe and Norman are reportedly "spending much clip unneurotic than ever" arsenic the presenter grieves, with a person from Hove antecedently telling the Daily Mail: "They ever look to beryllium together." Another pal told the work that the exes person been attending their lad Woody's DJ gigs together.

It's understood that Zoe and Woody inactive get unneurotic for household occasions and Sunday lunches with their kids, and could good beryllium spending much clip with each different successful the future. In yet different important change, Zoe precocious upped sticks from her £ 2 cardinal state location to a Brighton townhouse adjacent to wherever Norman lives.

In a connection made unrecorded connected aerial yesterday (November 19), Zoe announced that she had decided to 'start a caller chapter" aft six years of aboriginal greeting alarms portion confirming she would proceed moving with Radio 2 successful immoderate capacity.

Zoe revealed: "Ok, you beauteous bunch, I person immoderate news. After six years of amusive times alongside you each connected the Breakfast Show, I've decided it's clip to measurement distant from the aboriginal alarm telephone and commencement a caller chapter. You cognize I deliberation the world of you each listeners, and it genuinely has been specified a privilege to stock the mornings with you, to spell done life's small ups and downs, we got done the lockdown together, didn't we?

"We've shared a hellhole of a lot, the bully times, the pugnacious times, there's been a batch of laughter. And I americium going to miss you cats. I'm going to miss my astonishing Prod Squad who I adore. I already miss Mike, and I'm going to miss Tina and Richie. They've each go similar household to me, similar you lot. But I won't miss the 4 americium alarm call, if I'm wholly honest. So my past Breakfast amusement volition beryllium with you connected the 20th of December, and past it's precocious kicks each the mode to Christmas, gang.

"I'm not going to beryllium a stranger, I'm staying successful the Radio 2 unit and household due to the fact that it's an astonishing household - arsenic we saw past week with Paddy's fantastic Children successful Need challenge- and I'll person much quality connected that successful the New Year."

A broadcasting trailblazer, Zoe became the archetypal pistillate big of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show successful 1998, a presumption which she held until 2000. Upon joining Radio 2 successful 2006, Zoe went connected to marque past again successful January 2019 by becoming the archetypal pistillate to contiguous the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, having been passed the baton by chap vigor fable Chris Evans. She volition present beryllium stepping down soon earlier Christmas Day, with Scott Mills taking up the torch.

Scott, 51, has shared that helium is “beyond excited” arsenic helium prepares for his caller role. In a statement, Scott told listeners: “Zoe and I person been specified bully friends present for implicit 25 years and person spent overmuch of that clip arsenic portion of the aforesaid vigor household present astatine Radio 2 and besides connected Radio 1.

"She’s done an unthinkable occupation connected this amusement implicit the past six years, and I americium beyond excited to beryllium handed the baton. It feels ever since signaling my archetypal shows arsenic a kid for an assemblage of one, my mum, each roads since person led to this astonishing opportunity.

"It truly is simply a lifelong imagination travel existent to travel successful the footsteps of Sir Terry, Chris and Zoe to beryllium the caller presenter of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show.”

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