Zoë Ball is an English radio and television personality mostly known as the first female host of shows including ‘The Radio 1 Breakfast Show’ and ‘The Radio 2 Breakfast Show’ for BBC. Additionally, she was also a contestant in the third series of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
Zoe is best famous as a radio and television personality mostly known as the first female host of shows including ‘The Radio 1 Breakfast Show’ and ‘The Radio 2 Breakfast Show’ for BBC.
The ball was born as Zoë Louise Ball in Blackpool, the United Kingdom on November 23, 1970, to parents Johnny Ball, a children's TV presenter, and Julia Ball. Throughout her childhood years, she grew up in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire along with her sister Hannah Peckham and brother Jamie Clark. She became interested in the world of acting since her childhood years. She is of British nationality and her ethnicity is White. Her religion is Christianity and horoscope is Sagittarius. The ball was educated at Heston Junior School in the district of Hounslow between 1975 and 1978. And then, She attended Holy Cross Convert School in Chalfont St Peter. Later, she attended the Young Theatre at Beaconsfield where she trained as an actress.
Ball made her first screen appearance as a child in the studio audience of children’s show, ‘Saturday Superstore’ in the 1980s. After that Ball began her television career as a runner at Granada Television. For two years, she also worked as a researcher for quiz shows. As an actress, she has appeared in movies and shows including ‘Monster Cafe’, ‘The Lily Savage Show’, ‘Still Crazy’, ‘Offspring’, and ‘Let It, Shine’.Some other television series that Ball has appeared in are ‘Zoe Ball on …’, ‘The Queen’s Birthday Party’, ‘The One Show’, ‘The Big Family Cooking Showdown’, ‘Pointless Celebrities’, ‘Can’t Touch This’, ‘Loose Women’, ‘Isle of Wight Festival 2012’, ‘When Moyles Met The Radio 1 Breakfast DJs’, ‘Celebrity Ding Dong’, ‘Soapstar Superstar’, and ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’. Apart from her work in television, Ball has also worked on various radio programs and TV shows including, The Big Breakfast and The Priory on Channel 4, BBC One's Saturday morning children's programme Live & Kicking, a regular presenter on Top of the Pops (1996-1998), a co-host with Jamie Theakston on the Wednesday night chat/music show(1999-2001), co-presenter The Big Family Cooking Showdown with Nadiya Hussain on BBC Two, co-host of ‘The Radio 1 Breakfast Show’ and many more both equally in the past and in the present. She took part in the ‘Hardest Ride Home’ challenge in March 2018. In 2018, Ball was announced as the next Radio 2 Breakfast Show host and took over from Chris Evans in January 2019.
Zoe has not scored any noticeable awards so far. However, she has established herself as one of the best professional TV and radio presenter.
Her estimated net worth is around 1.4 million dollars which she has earned from her TV presenter and acting career. In July 2017, her salary as a BBC presenter, for the financial year 2016–2017, was revealed to be between £250,000 and £299,999. Information regarding her cars, houses, businesses and other assets are still under review.
Zoë Ball was married to DJ and musician Norman Cook at Babington House in Somerset on 20 August 1999. They separated after it was revealed that she had had an affair with DJ Dan Peppe, a close friend of Cook in 2003. Ball and Cook were later reunited. They have a son Woody and a daughter Nelly from this relationship in 2000 and 2010 respectively. On the 24th of September 2016, the couple declared their separation after their 18 years together. Zoe was then reported to have been in a relationship with BBC cameraman Billy Yates for several months who was found dead at his home in south London On 4 May 2017. Currently, she is not having any relationship deals.
Ball has a height of 5 feet 10 inches and weighs around 66kg. Additionally, her hair color is blonde and her eye color is hazel. But, information regarding Zoe Ball’s body measurement, shoe size, dress size, are not available. She has a straight sexual orientation.
Anna is active on social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. She has an Instagram profile with id zoetheball where she has 384K followers and her Twitter profile, @ZoeTheBall has over 336K followers. Her facebook profile is not identified.