Zoe Ball has wondered why she quit her job on BBC Radio 2 to be with her children, because they’re always out of the house anyway.
The radio DJ announced live on air in November last year that she was stepping down from The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show after six years to focus on her family, and her final broadcast aired on 20 December.
During an appearance on the Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe podcast on Friday, Zoe admitted that she questions whether she made the right call because her daughter Nelly, 15, and son Woody, 24, are rarely at home anyway.
“I gave up work because she’s going to do her GCSEs but she’s never there. She’s out with her mates. I’m like, ‘I’ve given up work for you.’ I am like, ‘What did I give up for?'” she candidly shared. “Yeah, I have thought about it because I’ve been through this a bit with Woody, but I had the joy of having Nell still around. I don’t know.”
The 54-year-old was the second-highest paid BBC presenter after Gary Lineker in 2024, with a £950,000 salary.
She went on to explain that she wanted to be there to support Nelly through her exams as well as the troubles of being a teenager.
“For girls, 15 is booze and boys. It’s a nightmare,” she said, before noting that she loves being able to do the school run now that she’s not on the breakfast show.
However, she added, “You know, she’s 15, so she doesn’t really want to talk. She doesn’t really want you to drive her to school, if anything.”
Zoe now presents a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 2 and hosts a podcast called Dig It with fellow radio DJ Jo Whiley.
She shares her two children with her ex-husband Norman Cook, best known as DJ Fatboy Slim.
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