Zoe Ball Bio, Age, Height, Career, Personal Life, Net Worth & More
Posted By: Rimsha Afzal | September 4, 2018Zoe Ball Introduction:
Zoë Louise Ball was born on 23rd of November 1970. Zoe Ball recognized as an English television and radio personality, who is best known for being the first female host of The Radio 1 Breakfast Show and for the presentation of the 1990s children’s show Live & Kicking as well.
Ball became a participant in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing. Leading to this she substituted Claudia Winkleman in the year 2011 as being the host of the BBC Two spin-off show Strictly Come Dancing: “It Takes Two.” Ball also became the host of the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour in the year 2011 and 2015 as well.
Zoe Ball Early life
Zoe Ball was born to her parents in Blackpool, Lancashire, and brought up in Buckinghamshire. She went to Holy Cross Convent School in Chalfont St. Peter and also joined the Young Theatre at Beaconsfield where she got training as an actress. Her first TV performance was as being a child in the studio audience of the 1980s Saturday morning children’s show, Saturday Superstore. In the show, her dad was acting as a guest.
Zoe Ball Career
Television
Zoe Ball started her television career as a runner at Granada Television as well as a researcher on BSkyB. She began working as a researcher for quiz shows and continued for more than two years. In the year 1994, Zoë Ball also gave Smart with Mark Speight and Jay Burridge until the time she abandoned in the year 1996. Between the years 1999 and 2001, she was working as a co-host with Jamie Theakston on Wednesday night chat/music shows The Priory. Which authorized by Chris Evans’s then production company Ginger Productions.
Ball co-also worked hosting the 2002 BRIT Awards with Frank Skinner, which definitely meant that she didn’t take much television work. In the year 2005, she also worked as a co-host of the BBC reality show Strictly Dance Fever. Ball was the co-host of the ITV programme Extinct, alongside Trevor McDonald in the year 2006.
In the month of Jan 2007, Zoe Ball presented her services for the second series of ITV’s Soapstar Superstar, by taking over from Fern Britton and Ben Shephard, who was the host of the first series. In the month of March 2007, she became the host of ITV talent search Grease Is the Word.
Alongside Jamie Theakston, Ball also presented Channel 5’s quiz series Britain’s Best Brain in the year 2009. Ball had also appeared as a guest in various episodes of The One Show as a stand-in for Alex Jones.
On 4th of August 2013, as being the hostess of a special entitled Doctor Who Lives: The Next Doctor. She also disclosed Peter Capaldi as the incoming Twelfth Doctor and presented his first interview in that position.
In the month of November 2013, Zoe Ball also worked as the host of the BBC One Children in Need telethon, along with Terry Wogan, Fearne Cotton, Nick Grimshaw and Tess Daly. In the year 2014, Ball provided her services as a co-host for a BBC Two spin-off from The Voice UK called The Voice: Louder on Two. The show broadcasted for one series which was lasting for ten episodes.
In the year 2015, Ball has given a chance to be the host of EastEnders: Backstage Live, a spin-off show during the time of EastEnders live week. She also presented the BBC Young Dancer competition with Darcey Bussell on BBC Two.
Zoe Ball also related 2 ITV Specials, The Nation’s Favourite ’70s Number One and The Nation’s Favourite ’80s Number One and the BBC One series of Don’t Tell the Bride as well. In the year 2016, Ball decided to host Can’t Touch This, a Saturday night game show for BBC One, along with Ashley Banjo. She also reported The Nation’s Favourite Carpenters Song.
She appeared as a guest in an episode of Film 2016. Since the year 2017, Ball has also co-presented The Big Family Cooking Showdown with Nadiya Hussain on BBC Two.
In the month of July 2017, her salary as a BBC presenter, for the financial year 2016–2017, declared to be £250,000 and £299,999 approximately.
However, Zoe Ball is best known for her TV work; Ball used to work in radio, after that she went to work as a co-host of The Radio 1 Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 1 in the year 1997 with Kevin Greening. She made the sole host, the first female DJ to do the job. At that time, her hard-drinking, hard-partying lifestyle granted to the identification of the so-called “ladette culture” of the 1990s. She was given warnings twice by the BBC for getting swore on the radio.
The ball finally left the BBC Radio 1 in the month of March 2000 to support her family. The ball came back to radio in the mid of 2002 when she went to join London rock station XFM. Where she hosted the weekday drivetime show till the year 2003. And after that in January 2004 held over a Friday evening music show for the station. She also went in for Ricky Gervais while he recorded shooting for a film of the second series of The Office. She finally left working at XFM at the end of 2004.
Zoe Ball Personal life:
The daughter of the children’s TV presenter Johnny Ball married to his wife Julia (née Anderson) and divorced each other when Zoë was just two years old, Ball completed his education at Heston Junior School in west London between the years 1975 and 1978. Her family then shifted to Farnham Common in Buckinghamshire. She went to Farnham Common First School and Farnham Common Middle School before joining to Holy Cross Convent School in Chalfont St Peter and Amersham College of Art and Technology as well.
While Zoe Ball was at BBC Radio 1, Ball started having a relationship with the DJ and musician Norman Cook. Who also known as Fatboy Slim. The couple married at Babington House in Somerset in the month of August 1999. In the year 2003, the couple divorced when Ball declared that she had had a relationship with his close friend Cook, fellow DJ Dan Peppe. Ball and Cook were later reunited.
The couple blessed with a son who was born in 2000, and a daughter who was born in 2010. They reside on a beachfront property in Western Esplanade, Hove.
On 24th of September 2016, the couple declared their separation after their 18 years together.
Zoe Ball Net Worth:
Zoe ball has done several different jobs. She was known as one of the biggest English television and radio personality. Zoe Ball has done many radio projects as a co-host which caused his net worth to increased. She also worked in films and series. Her estimated net worth is around 1.4 million dollars.
Conclusion:
Zoe Ball who was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, is best-known as an English radio and TV personality. She has worked as a host of the radio channel and went to the peak of success and glory. Zoe has earned the estimated net worth of around 10000000 dollars. She married once in her life but soon divorced.
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