BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball has shared her challenges with an area “gang” after shifting to a townhouse in Brighton and Hove. In 2024, the broadcaster swapped her £2 million countryside place in Sussex’s rural village of Newick for metropolis life, which is reportedly subsequent door to her ex-husband Norman Cook dinner, who’s also called Fatboy Slim.

The pair who acquired married in 1999, welcomed two kids collectively however parted methods in 2016 and finally finalised their divorce in 2020. Nonetheless, since relocating, Zoe appears to have taken up gardening in her spare time, however has additionally run into some bother with rebellious locals. It was reported that Zoe has been locked in “warfare” with a “gang” of foxes, cats and squirrels who’ve made a large number of her backyard.

In accordance with the MailOnline, she claimed: “I’ve acquired this gang of foxes, cats and squirrels that principally s*** in all of the borders.

Zoe additionally stated that not one of the suggestions or tips have labored regardless of her efforts to make use of lemon, thyme, and mulch.

Actually, they backfired because the 54-year-old sighed: “The squirrels are actually digging up their monkey nuts and the bulbs they nicked off me … that is warfare.

“I’ll sit at daybreak with a pop gun below a blanket aiming at them. They’re daring. They arrive as much as me like a little bit gang of s***** squirrels.”

This comes after her son Woody Cook dinner, 24, shared that his dad and mom have lately grown nearer and bonded over new hobbies, together with gardening.

Throughout her departure from BBC Radio, he issued an replace about his mom and shared: “Within the final 5 years, it has been humorous watching my dad and mom take up gardening each of them.

“These loopy social gathering folks I grew up with are actually gardening, making puzzles and dealing within the native café.

“It’s extremely humorous to see that transitional interval, simply as I am form of leaving the nest and now at first of one thing large for me in music,” Woody added.

Regardless of leaving the airwaves in December 2024 to “concentrate on household,” Zoe finally returned with a model new weekend present.

Her earlier breakfast present meant she was dwell on the radio from 6:30 am to 9:30 am on weekdays, however now she has a extra relaxed begin time of 1 pm.