Zoe Ball helps heavily pregnant woman get to hospital after ‘frightening’ fall

BBC Radio 2 meal show host Zoe Ball has revealed her Thursday took an unexpected crook aft she helped unreserved a ‘heavily’ pregnant pistillate to hospital.

The much-loved British broadcaster revealed connected aerial this greeting that aft her amusement concluded yesterday, she went location and upon parking, noticed ‘a spot of commotion’ successful the street.

Unsure what was happening, Zoe, 53, went to analyse and soon realised a pistillate had fallen over; to marque matters scarier, the pistillate was heavy pregnant.

‘I’m thinking: “Oh my goodness, I anticipation she’s alright”‘, Zoe, who shares son Woody, 23, and girl Nelly, 14, with ex-husband Norman Cook, told her listeners.

‘Anyway, it turns retired she’s precise heavy pregnant. Really beauteous lady. She’s had a fall. She was precise shaken up. She was truly winded and rather frightened, obviously, due to the fact that she’s worrying astir the baby.’

Thankfully, the pistillate was surrounded by plentifulness of adjuvant radical who were doing their champion to assistance her get backmost connected her feet.

But upon realising the pistillate was astir 1 period distant from giving birth, they collectively agreed that she spell to the hospital to marque definite her babe was okay, with Zoe offering to instrumentality her arsenic she was the lone 1 with a car nearby.

Calling the pistillate by ‘T’ to respect her privacy, Zoe admitted to listeners that she was somewhat disquieted T would springiness commencement successful her car, truthful she recruited different pistillate called Jess to travel with them.

‘I was like: “Jess, volition you travel with us? Because you mightiness person to bash blistery towels oregon something,”‘ she said.

As the 3 women thrust to the hospital, the vigor big said she felt the consciousness of urgency to get there: ‘I was thinking: “I request tally the bluish lights connected the apical of the car.” I’ve ne'er been an ambulance before.’

They particularly felt connected borderline erstwhile T wasn’t capable to scope immoderate of her family, including her husband, who was successful a enactment meeting, and her mother.

T’s friends besides weren’t answering.

Thankfully, aft arriving astatine the hospital, Zoe and Jess exchanged numbers with T earlier leaving her successful the harmless hands of doctors and portion they had to ‘wait each day’, they did find retired ‘she and beauteous babe were OK.’

While the babe was ‘absolutely fine’, Zoe told her listeners that T had unluckily suffered immoderate fractured ribs during the fall: ‘Poor love, erstwhile you’re heavy pregnant, you’ve got to spell done labour, that is going to beryllium painful.’

‘So I’m sending T and her household tons of emotion and harmless blessed landings for erstwhile you person the baby.’

Zoe concluded her communicative by telling listeners: ‘You conscionable ne'er cognize wherever your day’s going to go, bash you?’

The broadcaster precocious returned to aerial aft a six-week summertime break. It remains unclear wherefore she was distant for truthful long, but determination is 1 rumour that she rapidly unopen down.

After receiving a substance connection from a listener who jokingly suggested she had gone to Turkey for ‘a caller look and teeth’, Zoe had a laughter but said that wasn’t the crushed astatine all.

Her absence, which was filled by Scott Mills, came arsenic a astonishment to her loyal listeners arsenic she has hosted the Radio 2 meal amusement since 2019, aft taking implicit from Chris Evans.

Upon taking the reigns, Zoe became the archetypal pistillate meal amusement big successful the network’s history, marking different accomplishment for the star, who was besides Radio 1 Breakfast Show’s archetypal pistillate presenter.

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