Zoe Ball makes death admission after quitting BBC show
The radio presenter shared a message with her fans.
Radio presenter Zoe Ball has joked about her death. The 55-year-old BBC star took to her Instagram Stories to reshare a post about morbidity.
In it, the black and white text read: "When I die I want to be cremated, but at my funeral there will be an open casket with a Muppet version of me." In the corner of the post, there was an animation of Kermit the Frog from The Muppets. The quirky social media post comes after Zoe quit two of her BBC Radio 2 shows in the space of a year. In November 2024, the presenter stepped away as host of the station's Breakfast Show after almost six years in the role. She recently shared that the decision for her career partly came down to grief. Reflecting on what she described as an "interesting" year, Zoe shared how quitting the show created more time for herself and helped her navigate a huge loss in her life.
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The presenter lost her mother, Julia, to cancer in April 2024, which sparked an extended absence from her show.
Speaking on the latest edition of her and Jo Whiley's Dig It podcast, the 55-year-old said she was also dealing with other personal challenges behind the scenes.
She said: "I think after losing mum, so much had happened and not just losing mum, there was other stuff that had gone on before that.
"And this year has finally given me some time for myself to deal with lots of grief from my life, and that's mum and other things that I'd perhaps not given the time to grieve [for].
"And it's been quite an incredible eye-opening experience for me to just be like, 'Oh my gosh, you never dealt with this and you didn't really deal with that, because you just keep on running'.
"So, this year has finally given me time for myself and I am so appreciative of that, because I know that's not possible for everybody, some people just have to keep going and keep working."
Zoe also hinted at what is next for her career, saying: "Life has been quite quiet and I have really needed that. And I think next year, it's going to ramp right up again."
She also revealed how quitting the show had enabled her to take on "three amazing" TV projects, set to air later this year.
