Zoe Ball Parents: Meet Johnny Ball, Julia Ball

Zoe Ball is a British journalist popular for presenting shows on radio and television and also for being the first female host of both Radio 1 Breakfast and The Radio 2 Breakfast Show for the BBC.

Zoe was born on November 23 1970 in Blackpool in the United Kingdom. She has a brother called Jamie Clark. Her parents divorced two years after she was born.

After her family relocated to Farnham Common in Buckinghamshire, she first attended Heston Junior School between 1975 and 1978. She later went to the Farnham Common First School and Farnham Common Middle School and finally she was taken to Holy Cross Convent School in Chalfont St Peter and Amersham College of Art and Technology.

Before training as a journalist, Zoe trained as an actress at the Young Theatre at Beaconsfield. She made her first TV appearance in the 1980s Saturday morning children’s show, Saturday Superstore, on which her father was a guest.

Zoe Ball Parents: Meet Johnny Ball, Julia Ball

Zoe Ball was born to Johnny Ball and Julia Ball. Her father, Johnny apart from being known as the father of Zoe, was a children’s TV presenter in the mid-1970s and 1980s.

He was born May 23, 1938, in Bristol in the United Kingdom. As a host of children’s programmes, he hosted a lot of series of popular science and technology programmes made for children.