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| Zoe Ball and her DJ husband Norman Cook – better known as Fatboy Slim – have announced their separation after 18 years together. | |
| The pair said they remained “great friends” in a statement posted on Twitter, adding they “will continue to support each other and raise our beautiful children together, living next door but one”. | The pair said they remained “great friends” in a statement posted on Twitter, adding they “will continue to support each other and raise our beautiful children together, living next door but one”. |
| Ball and Cook wed in 1999 and have two children together. The statement added: “With great sadness we are announcing that we have separated. After many exciting adventures together over the last 18 years, we have come to the end of our rainbow.” | Ball and Cook wed in 1999 and have two children together. The statement added: “With great sadness we are announcing that we have separated. After many exciting adventures together over the last 18 years, we have come to the end of our rainbow.” |
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| Earlier this year Ball, 45, spoke of the couple’s future plans, saying they hoped to run a “pub, come post office, come pet shop” when they retired. | Earlier this year Ball, 45, spoke of the couple’s future plans, saying they hoped to run a “pub, come post office, come pet shop” when they retired. |
| The Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two host has in the past paid tribute to 53-year-old Cook as “a very patient man”, following a number of rocky patches in their relationship. | |
| They split for a few months in 2003 after she had an affair with DJ Dan Peppe and she was pictured in December last year having a drunken kiss with 22-year-old Tay Tay Starhz of boyband Franklin Lake. | They split for a few months in 2003 after she had an affair with DJ Dan Peppe and she was pictured in December last year having a drunken kiss with 22-year-old Tay Tay Starhz of boyband Franklin Lake. |
| But Ball insisted the pair had laughed off the slip-up, saying: “He [Cook] has always said he wants his gravestone to read: ‘Norman was a very patient man.’ And that sums it up really!” | But Ball insisted the pair had laughed off the slip-up, saying: “He [Cook] has always said he wants his gravestone to read: ‘Norman was a very patient man.’ And that sums it up really!” |
| After the picture emerged she told how they had a “good understanding of each other” and said the reasons they met and fell in love initially were still there. | |
| Both were known for their hard partying ways. | |
| Cook, who became one of the UK’s leading DJs and producers, and whose hits include Praise You, spoke about how the arrival of their second child felt like a gift after they both gave up drinking. | |
| Nelly was born in 2010, at which point the couple already had a nine-year-old son, Woody. | |
| Shortly after their daughter’s birth, Cook said: “Zoe and I both gave up drinking so this baby is a present of our sobriety. It was a tough start to the year but we’re both much happier. It’s all settled in at the Cooks’ household.” | |
| The DJ, who will be performing a charity gig in London as part of the Oxjam festival next month, described himself and Ball as “a good tag team” in raising their children. |