Zoe Ball reveals pregnancy on radio show

Zoe Ball reveals pregnancy on radio show
Zoe Ball reveals pregnancy on radio show (Image credit: EMPICS)

TV and radio presenter Zoe Ball has announced that she is expecting her second child with DJ husband Norman Cook. The 39-year-old - who has an eight-year-old son, Woody, told listeners on her Radio 2 show on Saturday morning, "I've got some lovely news for you all actually. I'm having a baby." She went on to say that she had been looking "green of gills" and was "eating everything in sight". Radio 2 controller Bob Sherman was among the first to congratulate the presenter. "Congratulations to Zoe and Norman in light of the fantastic news that Woody is soon to have a little brother or sister," he said. Zoe - the daughter of children's TV veteran Johnny Ball - sprang to fame as co-presenter of Saturday morning children's show Live And Kicking in the mid-90s. More recently she presented ITV's reality shows Soapstar Superstar and Grease Is The Word, and was a contestant on the 2005 series of Strictly Come Dancing, finishing in 3rd place. She began her new weekend breakfast slot on Radio 2 in early June.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.