Zoe Ball's doomed romances from ex-husband affair to boyfriend struck by tragedy

Radio presenter Zoe Ball has endured heartbreak and calamity distant from the airwaves.

The 53-year-old has announced her daze departure from her much-loved BBC Radio 2 Breakfast show, admitting that it was clip to "start a caller chapter" aft six years of aboriginal starts. She added: "You cognize I deliberation the satellite 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." On and disconnected the radio, Zoe has made respective honorable admissions astir her emotion beingness implicit the years, and arsenic she took a play of lack from the amusement earlier this year, she was seen enjoying a time retired with her ex-husband Fatboy Slim, whom she co-parents their 2 children with, Woody, 23, and Nelly, 14.

Although they look to beryllium connected bully presumption now, the erstwhile mates person travel a agelong mode aft the mum-of-two admitted to being unfaithful during her marriage, which led to their eventual split. Since then, she has suffered the tragic nonaccomplishment of her fellow and is present believed to beryllium enjoying being single.

Here, the Mirror takes a look astatine Zoe Ball's turbulent emotion life...

Fatboy Slim friendship

Zoe and DJ Norman Cook, amended known arsenic Fatboy Slim, were 1 of the aureate personage couples of the precocious 90s and aboriginal 00s, with the 2 stars tying the knot successful 1999 and welcoming 2 children into the world unneurotic earlier calling clip connected their romance for bully successful 2016.

The erstwhile mates archetypal concisely divided successful 2003, erstwhile it was revealed Zoe had been having an matter with 1 of her husband's friends. Speaking to The Mirror astir the extra-martial matter successful 2010, Zoe confessed that she "wasn't happy" and that a "mix of everything" contributed to her infidelity.

The Radio 2 presenter shared: "And what I've ever done successful my past erstwhile beingness deed a rocky spot was conscionable tally from occupation into the adjacent relationship. I've had truthful galore boyfriends and that's what happened if it ever got difficult." Zoe besides admitted astatine the clip that household beingness fuelled this deficiency of satisfaction, admitting that "reality deed maine hard" erstwhile she had kids.

She added: "Norm and I met successful Ibiza and lived this crazy, enactment beingness and got joined wrong a year," she said. "Then we had Woody and abruptly I was each settled down. I thought, ‘Do cognize each other?’"

Norman and Zoe rekindled their romance 3 months aft their little divided successful 2003, going connected to person a 2nd kid unneurotic successful 2010, but sadly ended their matrimony successful 2016 and divorced. A connection from the parents-of-two announcing their divided astatine the clip read: "With large sadness we are announcing that we person separated. After galore breathtaking adventures unneurotic implicit the past 18 years we person travel to the extremity of our rainbow. We are inactive large friends and volition proceed to enactment each different and rise our beauteous children together, surviving adjacent doorway but one. X Zoe & Norm."

True to their word, Norman and Zoe person remained adjacent friends since ending their romanticist relationship, with Praise You hitmaker appearing connected Zoe's vigor amusement successful June up of Glastonbury and sharing a fewer cheeky jokes unrecorded on-air erstwhile Zoe astir forgot her ex's name.

In August of this year, Zoe stepped backmost from her greeting presenting duties, which she returned to successful precocious September. Norman was determination for her successful her clip of grief pursuing the devastating nonaccomplishment of her mother. Ahead of her return, Zoe was spotted for the archetypal clip during her BBC Radio 2 permission alongside Norman, with the erstwhile mates seen laughing unneurotic with a radical of radical extracurricular a Hove café.

Zoe and Norman are reportedly "spending much clip unneurotic than ever" arsenic the presenter grieves, with a person from Hove 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.

Boyfriend Billy's bittersweet death

Zoe suffered unimaginable heartache successful 2017 erstwhile her fellow Billy Yates took his ain beingness astatine the property of 40. Speaking astir her precocious partner's decease a fewer years later, the mum-of-two admitted losing Billy was the hardest happening she's "ever had to woody with" passim her life.

Billy was a cameraman and technician who had worked connected shows similar the Antiques Roadshow, The Xtra Factor and Famous and Fearless. Zoe and Billy were archetypal pictured unneurotic successful February 2017 and their narration marked Zoe's archetypal nationalist romance since her divided from Norman.

Talking astir Billy, who died successful May 2017, Zoe opened up astir her precocious spouse during a tender interrogation connected Desert Island Discs successful February 2020. She recalled: "He'd lived with slump for a immense chunk of his life. It's truthful hard to beryllium and ticker idiosyncratic you emotion and attraction for conflict with intelligence health. Losing him was the hardest happening I've ever had to woody with successful my life."

Zoe, who had been friends with Billy for years earlier their narration turned romantic, went connected to add: "I deliberation thing that's truly important to share… is that determination is hope. There is assistance available, determination are ways, we're inactive learning. For immoderate people, the drugs work. For immoderate radical that isn’t the case.

"But I deliberation it's truthful isolating to beryllium trapped successful your caput similar that, erstwhile you uncertainty yourself, you uncertainty everything you've ever known. You uncertainty your household emotion you. You uncertainty your friends attraction for you."

Split from 'demanding' boyfriend

Zoe was reportedly near 'gutted' aft splitting from her exemplary fellow Michael Reed past twelvemonth aft a five-year romance, but it seems the vigor prima has moved connected from the failed romance and is loving beingness arsenic a azygous woman.

The erstwhile Live & Kicking presenter parted ways with exemplary Michael successful May, with sources claiming astatine the clip that the narration had tally its people aft 5 years. An insider added, "Zoe is gutted, but she's amended disconnected without Michael. This is simply a alleviation to galore of her friends, who deliberation she has done the close thing."

"They had a fantastic romance astatine archetypal and Michael was a existent gent. But successful caller months Zoe has started to find him a spot demanding," the root went connected to assertion to The Sun. The root said that Zoe had asked Michael to determination retired of their East Sussex location but the erstwhile mates planned to stay connected bully terms.

Appearing connected Celebrity Gogglebox a mates of months connected from the split, Zoe appeared to beryllium enjoying spending clip connected her ain arsenic she opened up to her lad Woody astir a solo room creation successful the mediate of the night. "You cognize what I did the different night? I whacked connected immoderate tunes. I was unsocial successful the location and I danced successful the room until astir 1 successful the greeting and I had a beauteous time," Zoe told her eldest kid arsenic they watched TV together.

She added: "I did each my moves and my favourite dances, spoke to my friends and had a small room disco for one. Is that a spot sad?" The Circle prima Woody was amused by his mum's admittance and jokingly asked her if she was good and "wanted to speech astir it", to which Zoe giggled and enactment her look successful her hands.

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