Zoe splashes out on £1.5m pad

SHE might have lost a million listeners on her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, but Zoe Ball is still going up in the world.

I can reveal that she’s splashed out an estimated £1.5 million on a country mansion built by a Russian aristocrat.

The six-bedroom property, which was created by Baron Vladimir de Wolff in the 1920s, has a swimming pool, tennis court and acres of gardens.

Zoe, who is going out with construction boss Michael Reed, will count TV presenter Piers Morgan among her neighbours in the Sussex village. ‘It’s much bigger and grander than her former home and will offer her more privacy,’ a local tells me.

Zoe, daughter of former Blue Peter presenter Johnny Ball, has put her 18th century cottage in the Sussex village of Ditchling on the market for £1.25 million, £275,000 more than she paid for it two years ago.