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Fatboy Slim separates from radio presenter Zoe Ball after 18 years of marriage
Zoe Ball, the first female presenter of Radio One's Breakfast Show, and music producer Fatboy Slim have announced they have separated after 18 years of marriage.
Posting a statement on her Twitter account, Ball said it was "with great sadness" that the pair had decided to separate.
"After many exciting adventures together over the last 18 years we have come to the end of our rainbow," she added.
"We are still great friends and will continue to support each other and raise our beautiful children together, living next door but one."
The couple were married in August 1999 at Babington House, a Georgian country house located in Somerset, and have two children together: Woody Fred, 16, and daughter Nelly May Lois, six.
However, this is not the first first time the pair have separated.
In 2003, they split briefly after Ball revealed that she had been having an affair with DJ Dan Peppe, a close friend of her husbands, but they reconciled a few months later.
Until July this year their relationship seemed stable, with Ball stating that it would "take something pretty mammoth to rock us now" during a media interview.
According to a source quoted in the Sun, the pair have finally decided to go their separate ways due to clashes in personality; with Ball wanting to "go out and have fun" while Cook remains content staying at home with the children.
"His sobriety was incredibly hard-won and he doesn’t want to compromise it," the source said.
"Zoe completely understands that, but she is in a very different place. She doesn’t want to be sat on the sofa in the evening having a cup of tea. She loves a party and will get stuck into a night out."
A disagreement while the family was holidaying in Ibiza, where Cook regularly performs, is also believed to have contributed to their marriage breaking down.
Ball is currently living in London where she is filming for the Strictly Come Dancing aftershow, while Cook remains at the family home in Brighton looking after the couple's children.