Zoe Ball left in tears after falling victim to devastating crime while live on show
Zoe Ball said she was left in tears last week after discovering that her car had been broken into, shortly after appearing on The One Show. The 54-year-old BBC Radio 2 presenter shared her ordeal, as she admitted to feeling partly responsible for leaving a bag visible on the front seat.
Discussing the incident with her Dig It podcast co-star Jo Whiley, she shared: "Someone had smashed the front window of my car, that's never happened to me before."
Zoe described feeling "a bit frozen" at first as she processed what had happened and wasn't sure what to do.
Resourcefully, Zoe then found a festival-themed poncho in her car, which she used to cover the broken window.
She shared: "I wrapped it around the smashed door [and] slammed it tight and was like, 'Right, okay, I'm probably going to have to drive from London to Brighton at 30 miles an hour'."
Despite the setback, Zoe said she managed to pick up speed, though recalled her surroundings being "very loud".
During her journey, Zoe opted to listen to her podcast partner's radio show which was followed by Bob Harris' programme.
"I've never heard the country show quite so loud in my ear," she joked, and credited them for helping her to get home safely.
Looking back, Zoe mused that the break-in might have been avoided if her bag hadn't been left on the front seat.
"I'm not very practical," she confessed. "Sometimes when things like that happen, I'm like, 'Right, oh yes, what do I do? I don't have any masking tape'. Anyway, they didn't get anything valuable, so it was fine."
When asked if the incident had left her feeling wounded, Zoe said: "I got in and I had a massive cry.
"Do you know what I did? I did a stupid thing, I was so busy running into The One Show with my suits and my bag and everything.
"And we were going to do a picture with our Spotify picture [team], which was amazing, and I left a bag on the front seat. Big no, no in London, idiot. Luckily nothing in it except my diary."
Reflecting on her emotional reaction, she quipped: "It was good, I love a big blub. The ones where you wake up in the morning and your face is a bit swollen and you're like, 'Well I'm glad I got that out'."
In response, Jo sympathised before revealing that she too had become a victim of crime in the capital.
"Just a boy on a bike just literally snatched it from my hand," she recounted to her colleague. "And then you having something [happen] like this, it's just so disappointing that people would do that to another person."
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