Zoe Ball
Zoe Louise Ball is a British television and radio personality. She was the first female host of both The Radio 1 Breakfast Show and The Radio 2 Breakfast Show for the BBC. Ball was a contestant in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is the daughter of children’s TV presenter Johnny Ball.
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Zoe Louise Ball is a British television and radio personality. She was the first female host of both The Radio 1 Breakfast Show and The Radio 2 Breakfast Show for the BBC. Ball was a contestant in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing. In 2018, Ball was announced as the next Radio 2 breakfast show host. She will take over from Chris Evans in January 2019. Ball is the daughter of children’s TV presenter Johnny Ball and his wife Julia née Anderson. Her first TV appearance was as a child in the studio audience of the 1980s Saturday morning children’s show, Saturday Superstore, on which her father was appearing as a guest. She has also presented The Big Breakfast and The Priory on Channel 4, BBC One’s Saturday morning Children’s programme Live & Kicking, and the pre-school programme Playdays. In October 2005, Ball became a contestant on the BBC One talent show Strictley Come Dancing, where she was partnered by Ian Waite.
She appeared alongside her son Woody Cook on Celebrity Gogglebox Series 2. In 2016, Ball co-presented The Nation’s Favourite ’80s Number One as well as the BBC series Don’t Tell the Bride. In 2017, she co-hosted The Big Family Cooking Showdown with Nadiya Hussain on BBC Two. She also narrated two ITV Specials, The Nation’s Favourites ‘70s and ‘80s ’80s. In 2020, Ball will appear on BBC2’s The Big Brother Christmas Special with her son Fred Cook and her daughter Woody Cook Series 2 on BBC One. She is also a guest presenter on The Voice UK and The One Show as a stand-in for Alex Jones. On 4 August 2013, as hostess of a special entitled Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor, she revealed Peter Capaldi as the incoming Twelfth Doctor and hosted his first interview.
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