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Zoë Louise Ball (born November 23, 1970, Blackpool, Lancashire, England) is a British television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the prestigious BBC Radio 1 breakfast show.

The daughter of children's TV presenter Johnny Ball, Zoë was educated at a convent school in Buckinghamshire. Her first TV appearance was as a child in the studio audience of Saturday morning children's show Saturday Superstore, on which her father was appearing as a guest.

She began her television career as a runner at Granada Television and researcher on BSkyB. She worked two years as a researcher for quiz shows.

Her presenting jobs have included hosting The Big Breakfast on Channel 4, BBC One's Saturday morning children's programme Live & Kicking and pre-school programme Playdays.

Although known primarily for her TV work, it was in radio where she became a major British celebrity after she was recruited to co-host the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in October 1997 with Kevin Greening. She eventually graduated to become the sole host - the first female DJ to do so. At this time, her hard-drinking, hard-partying antics prompted the coining of the so-called "ladette" culture of the late 1990s. She later notoriously re-created the naked pose on a backturned chair made famous by Christine Keeler when doing an interview and spread with Sky magazine.

While at Radio 1, she began a relationship with DJ and musician Norman Cook (a.k.a. "Fatboy Slim") and married him in August 1999. Before the wedding, Zoë was famously photographed outside her home in a cowboy hat, with a lit cigarette in her mouth and a bottle of Jack Daniels whisky in her hand. The photographs were memorable but she received criticism for supposedly "staging" the look, as if to show the "ladette" was being reluctantly brought in line.

She surprised commentators and journalists, however, by bringing her wedding forward in secret to avoid intrusion, and wore a traditional white dress. Her marriage ended her involvement in the "ladette" culture, though her friend and breakfast show successor Sara Cox briefly continued it.

The couple have one son, Woody, (born December 2000), and the marriage later survived a trial separation. They live in Brighton.

Zoë co-hosted the 2002 BRIT Awards with Frank Skinner but otherwise has not undertaken much work in recent years due to motherhood. She does, however, present a weekly show for London station XFM and in 2005, after co-hosting the BBC reality show Strictly Dance Fever, became a contestant on its sister show Strictly Come Dancing, partnering Ian Waite (in which she ranked 3rd place), admitting during the programme that her husband was against the idea.

Though regarded as a fine professional, Zoë twice received a carpeting for swearing on the radio - firstly when she used the word "bastard" while being interviewed by Chris Evans during his spell on the Radio 1 breakfast show (she was publicising her appointment to The Big Breakfast at the time); then, as host of the Radio 1 breakfast show, for using the expression "fucking brilliant" to describe a night out she'd had.