Zoe Ball's heartbreak and loss: How BBC icon has 打ち勝つ 悲劇 and heartache from the death of her beloved mother and partner Billy Yates - to the end of her 18-year marriage to Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした

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Zoe Ball has 打ち勝つ a 一連の 悲劇s and heartbreak that led her to take time away from 無線で通信する 2 to 焦点（を合わせる） on her family.?

The BBC icon, 53,? 発表するd in the 早期に hours of Wednesday morning that her mother Julia had died after a 戦う／戦い with pancreatic?癌?に引き続いて her diagnosis last month.

地位，任命するing a 尊敬の印 to her mother on social マスコミ, she said: 'Sleep tight dear Mama.?

'Thank you for teaching us how to love 無条件に, to always show courage and empathy, and how, even in the darkest of days, laughter is the greatest of gifts.? We are bereft without you but will 持つ／拘留する so tight to each other.'

It is the 最新の in a string of 悲劇s the beloved 無線で通信する 2 presenter has had to 耐える.?

Her five-and-a-half year 関係 with Michael Reed recently broke 負かす／撃墜する, and seven years ago her partner Billy Yates took his own life in May 2017.

Mr Yates' death （機の）カム after the 決裂／故障 of Ms Ball's 18-year marriage to DJ Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした, real 指名する Normal Cook.

Taking to social マスコミ on Wednesday, Ms Ball, 53, said she would be taking time away from 無線で通信する 2 to 焦点（を合わせる） on her family

Zoe wrote: 'I'm trying to be at work on breakfast as often as I can but occasionally need to be home with my Mama' (pictured with her mother Julia in 2010)

The presenter, 53, said she and her family were going through '堅い times' まっただ中に her mother's (pictured) diagnosis but 賞賛するd her for 存在 '勇敢に立ち向かう'

Zoe Ball pictured with her mother Julia in 2011. The BBC icon 発表するd Julia had passed away today

Zoe Ball 発表するd the death of her 'dear mama' Julia (pictured) in a 地位，任命する on Instagram in the 早期に hours of Wednesday morning?

In the 尊敬の印 地位，任命するd to Instagram (pictured), Zoe Ball told fans she is 'bereft'?

After her mother's death today, the 放送者's son Woody Cook, who she 株 with ex-husband Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした, also 株d a 尊敬の印 on Instagram?

Woody also について言及するd his grandmother's late husband Rick Peckham who died in 2013, as he 追加するd: 'I know you're with Rick now, give him a 抱擁する from me.'

に引き続いて her mother's 癌 diagnosis, Ball?said she would be taking time away from the 駅／配置する to 焦点（を合わせる） on her family last month.

At the time she said her family were going through '堅い times' but her mother was 存在 極端に '勇敢に立ち向かう'.

At the start of March she 地位，任命するd a picture of Julia surrounded by family, 同様に as a second of her receiving chemotherapy in hospital, Ms Ball wrote:?'Heartbreakingly our beautiful Mama Julia has been 診断するd with 癌.

'As many of you know from experience, these are 極端に 堅い times. Mum is 存在 incredibly 勇敢に立ち向かう.

'My brother Jamie and I are 完全に in awe of the brilliant doctors, nurses and support teams looking after Mum. Thank you.

'感謝 to our families and our 延長するd family & friends at home & at work for their support at this time.

'Sending out love to people reading this who are 戦う／戦いing 癌, or を待つing diagnosis and also to the folk looking after their dear ones who are 貧しく.'

The family has been bedecked by hardship for １０年間s, with Ms Ball's parents Julia and Johnny Ball, a former TV presenter, splitting up in 1972 after just three years of marriage.

Mr Ball remarried his second wife, Dianne Cheryl, in 1976, with the pair remaining together today.

As Zoe's own career took off, she and her husband Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした supported one another on their rise to fame, with わずかな／ほっそりした later 述べるing how she kept him 負かす／撃墜する to earth by 'checking him' for his behaviour.

He told the Changes podcast:?'While you've got licence to break 支配するs, you've always got a lot of people who'll let you get away with 殺人.

Taking to social マスコミ, Zoe 株d a photo of her mother surrounded by family members

Zoe Ball and her DJ husband Norman Cook, aka Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした, 発表するd in 2016 that they had 'come to the end of our rainbow' after 18 years of marriage

Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした 以前 told how Zoe Ball would 'check him' as he rose to fame to 確実にする he 扱う／治療するd people with 尊敬（する）・点?

'Zoe was really good for me for that, because she knew the fame game and we would sort of check each other.

'If I wasn't respectful to people, she'd go: ''Oi, come on, that's not how we behave! Go 支援する and thank them for that.'''

Yet sadly their marriage （機の）カム to an end in 2016, with the couple 発表するing they had 'come to the end of their rainbow'.

Although Ms Ball soon 設立する love again in partner Billy Yates, their 関係 was also not 始める，決める to last.

After a long 戦う／戦い with 不景気, Mr Yates, 40, took his own life in May 2017, at his home in Putney, south west London.

The 無線で通信する 2 presenter 以前 told how she felt 'really 感謝する' he had said goodbye to her the last time she saw him.

Fighting 支援する 涙／ほころびs as she spoke about their final moments together, she said: 'He got on his bike and he cycled off and he turned 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and he blew me a kiss goodbye, and that was the last time I saw him.'

She 追加するd: 'It was just that moment and that feeling of ''Oh my god I love him so much, we'll find some help and it will all be okay.'' And I wish I'd told him that.'

Zoe Ball pictu red with former partner Billy Yates, who took his own life in May 2017

Zoe Ball wore a T-shirt 耐えるing Billy Yates' 指名する as she returned to work at 無線で通信する 2 に引き続いて his death

Zoe 分裂（する） from her long 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 partner Michael Reed last year after the couple's 関係 broke 負かす／撃墜する over 'silly things'

The couple had 報道によれば been arguing about very minor 面s of their life, such as Ms Ball spending time on her phone talking to friends

A year after his death, Ms Ball took part in a gruelling Sport 救済 challenge to cycle 350 miles in five days in his memory and to raise 認識／意識性 of mental health 問題／発行するs.

She has 終始一貫して 示すd his death each year and returned to work at 無線で通信する 2 に引き続いて his death wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with his 指名する.

にもかかわらず her loss, the presenter 設立する the courage to love again when she began dating former construction 労働者 Michael Reed.

But while friends said he was a 'true gent' at first, their 関係 broke 負かす／撃墜する after more than five years in May 2023 after Mr Reed 恐らく became 'a bit 需要・要求するing'.

The couple had 報道によれば been arguing about very minor 面s of their life, such as Ms Ball spending time on her phone talking to friends.

The presenter soon asked Mr Reed to move out of her home, although the two are said to remain on good 条件.?

After her mother's 最近の 癌 diagnosis, Ms Ball has been inundated with messages of support from fans.?

She 安心させるd them that while she would be in her usual 無線で通信する 2 slot as much as possible, she would 'occasionally need to be home with my Mama.'?

The 無線で通信する presenter, who leads the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show from 6.30am to 9.30am, will 行方不明になる some shows while she helps take care of her mother Julia, with Gaby Roslin filling in in her stead.

After her mother's death today, the 放送者's son Woody Cook, who she 株 with ex-husband Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした, also 株d a 尊敬の印 on Instagram.

'Today I say goodbye to Granny J, thank you for 存在 a wonderful woman,' the 23-year-old said, 株ing a picture of himself with his grandmother.

Woody, who appeared on Netflix reality series The Circle in 2019, also について言及するd his grandmother's late husband Rick Peckham.

He said: 'The only person who always sent me a valentines card. I know you're with Rick now, give him a 抱擁する from me.

'I know he said once when you were panicking in a ヘリコプター over the ジャングル 'If you get lost, follow the river!' You'll find him at the end.'

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