‘How I finally GAVE UP BOOZE'

Zoe Ball shot to fame in the 90s and quickly became the face of ladette culture with her boozy, party lifestyle – even getting into trouble for swearing at work when she hosted the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

The 49-year-old presenter has now admitted that, despite trying to quit booze completely for years, she kept falling off the wagon. Zoe famously revealed in 2014 that she’d broken her sobriety after six years of abstinence.

Speaking on BBC Radio 2’s Desert Island Discs, she said, ‘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’d sort of deal with one thing and then another thing would sort of affect me and it took me a couple of attempts to sort that out.’

Zoe has now been sober since 2016, something she says is a result of rehabilitation and spending time with like-minded people.