Zoe Ball has sold her country home four years after buying it for £2million, it has emerged. The 53-year-old presenter, who has been away from her Radio 2 breakfast show since August 8, has moved house in recent weeks. She reportedly sold her countryside home in the village of Newick, Sussex, which she bought in August 2020.
It is believed she moved to a townhouse between Brighton and Hove, near her ex-husband DJ Norman Cook - the father of her two children - from whom she separated in 2016 and divorced in 2020. Some sources close to the much-loved presenters have suggested that the change represents a "new start" for the radio host, who split from her partner Michael Reed last year after more than five years together. A source with knowledge of her new home told Mail Online : "Zoe obviously got fed up with life in the country and wanted to move to somewhere a bit more lively.
" They also claimed that she has been ordering new furniture to decorate her new pad. The source added: "She has become really engrossed in making her house just as she wants it and has been happily ordering furniture and buying bits and bobs to make it perfect." The news emerged after Zoe was spotted with a group of people - including her ex-husband - outside a cafe in Hove, last Sunday.
Eyewitnesses said the broadcaster stayed there for just over an hour. Photos show her chatting and laughing with the group before walking along the beachfront. Zoe last appeared on her breakfast programme on August 8.
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