The broadcaster on ‘terrible parenting’, Christmas pudding and dreaming of Glastonbury
Born in Blackpool, Zoe Ball, 50, became the first solo woman to front Radio 1’s breakfast show. She currently hosts the Radio 2 breakfast show and Strictly’s It Takes Two. She has written the foreword to the new QI book, Funny You Should Ask… Your Questions Answered By The QI Elves. She lives in Sussex, and has two children with her ex-husband, DJ Norman Cook.
What is your earliest memory?
My dad wrapping me up in his coat on a cold, rainy night in the 1970s when our car broke down and we had to wait by the road for help.
