Zoe Ball Quotes

I’ve listened to Terry Wogan since I was a girl; my parents listened to David Jacobs and Desmond Carrington.

I have a really large family, so we have three big Christmas celebrations. This involves intense diary planning, compromising between the families – and serious food shopping.

On a Friday night, I switch on my log burner, stick on ‘Gardeners’ World’ and I am so happy.

I was given a lot of opportunities when I was younger that I kind of threw away.

I use this little trick where I take my arms up above my head, breathe in really slowly, and repeat. I do it before every show, TV or radio, and people always laugh at me. But it really helps.

I don’t think that sliding down a wall with a bottle of Sancerre in your hand at 6:30 in the morning is particularly attractive when you’re approaching 40 and you’ve got a kid.

For a long time I genuinely thought I’d be the next Streisand, so it was crushing to discover that I couldn’t sing or act.

I’ve always felt all the jobs I’ve ever got are on merit.

There was a time when I found looking back to the 90s a little bit… tricky.

You just have to be you.

I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in ‘Top Gun.’

As for Lady GaGa, she‘s just a copy of Madonna.

There is no greater joy than watching your children grow, learn and laugh.

You know, I look at my kids or my friends and think ‘I couldn’t love you any more.’ And then I do.

It’s great fun to try to entertain.

What I’ve always done in my past when life hit a rocky patch was run from trouble into the next relationship. I didn’t realise it would be such a big deal. That was foolish.

My best characteristic is that I don’t take things too seriously. And my worst characteristic is the same one. There are times when my family wants me to take things seriously and I’ll be mucking about. So I’m aware it’s annoying for everyone else.

To feel love is the most incredible feeling in the world. To lose it will nearly end you and take you to your knees, but there’s always more.

I think the ladette culture was a label thing, and it was the nineties and it was Britpop and it was quite wild.

The worst thing was being in the car and hearing someone else do your show. Three records in, ‘She’s still not here.’ Four records in, ‘She’s still not here.’

In a way, I got away with a lot because a lot of our partying was done behind closed doors. But I don’t ever want to be that person again, who embarrasses my family with my behaviour.

Age is just a number and beauty is within.

I’ve ridden shopping bikes. My dad held my saddle and pushed me along when I was five. I’ve had a go on a BMX.

To be given the Radio 1 breakfast show was huge, but I was partying so hard I barely remember it.

I don’t have regrets, life is too short. You have to think about the positives and move forward.

Love fills your heart and breaks your heart; it’s so unpredictable, you don’t know where it’s going to come from.

I’m such a different person to the one I was at Radio 1… and I like to think that women are treated slightly differently to back then.

When you grow up as a woman, there is that confusion where you think, ‘I need to be this or that to fit in.’ Now, I’m very much like, ‘No, this is what I am.’

It is kind of a strange thing when you face things in your life, you know like addictions, that often you will find that you will deal with it a little bit but then you will slip back into old ways.

I remember cream cheese in celery, with a sprinkling of paprika, served at my dad and stepmum’s ‘soirees’ in the 70s, where people danced to Slade in long tartan dresses. I’d go down and eat the cheese cubes left over from cheese and pineapple on sticks, because guests would only eat the pineapple.

I only have vague memories of the Radio 1 days because it was quite a time.

Great gifts include warm pyjamas, bedsocks, scarves and blankets.

I know I’m not everyone’s taste and that’s fine, and that is the beauty of digital and radio that you can find what you want to listen to.

You give a little love and it all comes back to you.

I’m such a Beeb girl, they’ve always been great to me. I’ve worked at ITV and Channel 4, but the BBC has always felt like home.

I think it’s so isolating to be trapped in your mind like that, when you doubt yourself, you doubt everything you’ve ever known. You doubt your family love you. You doubt your friends care for you.

You can’t be the perfect parent.

Yes, this a disease, and men suffering with depression need help. It takes the right person to break through to someone who has been brave enough to reach out.

I always eat after a show and I love a big fry-up.

Everyone has a breaking point.

There is such a thing as too much fun.

I only ever wanted to be Barbra Streisand.

It’s a funny age, 40, you do suddenly feel a lot older.

The kids are always so passionate. I feel like they are our protectors. They care so much about recycling and climate change.

I remember seeing Norman Cook swimming in a pair of burgundy pants. I thought: ‘Wow, he looks great.’

I would be more slender if I didn’t eat a bit of chocolate or a cake now and again, but I’m not one of those crazy women who just eat watercress soup – I need to chomp.

I think something that’s really important to share, having spoken now to lots of people who work within mental health support networks or people trying to make a difference, is that there is hope. There is help available.

Mental health resources are under huge pressure and there are a lot of people who are not necessarily getting the support they need in time.

I remember Will Smith and me seeing who had the most sticky-out ears.

I wish I was slimmer, but cheesecake, crumble and custard, panna cotta… I love ’em all!