Presenter Zoe Ball's health battle causes 'awful headaches' and 'jaw clenching'
Zoe Ball is hosting the last of the VE Day celebrations tonight - it comes after the presenter opened up about a painful health battle that pushed her to quit her morning breakfast show
TV and radio presenter Zoe Ball is leading the VE Day celebration concert tonight, just days after she returned to BBC Radio 2 to launch her new Saturday afternoon show.
Zoe, 54, hosted the Radio 2 weekday breakfast show for six years before leaving in December, after an extended absence last summer. It came following the death of her late mother, Julia Peckham, in April last year.
In the final few weeks of her breakfast show, Ball took to Instagram to share with fans how her early wake-up calls have been made worse by her health condition.
The radio star has Temporomandibular disorder (TMD), also known as TMJ, which affects the joint between your jawbone and your temporal bone. Disorders can cause jaw, neck, and shoulder pain as well as vision problems, dizziness and headaches.
Zoe recently shared photos of herself before and after having a lymphatic drainage massage in a bid to relax the muscles and ease pain from the condition.
"I have TMJ and wake most days with awful headaches from tension and jaw clenching," she wrote on Instagram.
"So grateful to Helen @thesculptresslondon for her magic. This is my face after I've seen her, check out my face before – yikes – picture 2. Can't recommend her enough. She also has the greatest playlists."
Zoe's dad, TV presenter Johnny Ball, said his daughter told him she is in "such a good place" after quitting her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show. She will return to the radio this month to host a new weekly show, from 1pm to 3pm on Saturdays.
Johnny told Saga Magazine: "Zoe's taken to broadcasting as well as I did – in fact, she's done better than me.
"She's earned considerably more money from it. Her mum died last year and she's had various other problems, but she's chuffed to have packed in the Radio 2 breakfast show, as she's realised every day has 24 hours now.
Her days used to start at 4am and by the time it got to midday she was knackered. She visited me recently and said: 'I'm in such a good place'."
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