Firefighters rush to Zoe Ball’s home after star leaves candle burning in empty house
ZOE Ball has revealed the terrifying moment firefighters rushed to her property after she left candles burning while nobody was home.
The BBC Radio 2 presenter, 52, made her shock confession on today’s programme.
Zoe told how she had left a candle “smouldering” from the night before in her living room – and praised the emergency services team for “stopping my house burning down.”
It came during in a segment during which listeners were revealing things that had happened to them for the “first time.”
Zoe said: “Something that happened to me for the first time was that yesterday, the fire brigade went to my house.
“I had left a candle burning in the lounge.
“I was so obsessed with The Matrix and the fact that I had made a cake on Sunday, I had gone out and hadn’t blown out one of the candles.
“It was left smouldering in the lounge and at 9:25am my smoke alarms went off and thank goodness!
“Otherwise I might have gone home to no home!”
She continued: “Thank you to my neighbour Abs and my gorgeous Em who called the fire brigade and I’d like to give a big shout-out to Duncan and the Uckfield boys, Joe and Cameron and Steve, who went around, put out the candle and stopped my house from burning down.”
Back in February, Zoe and her beau Michael Reed packed up their bags and moved 18 minutes down the road to their new pad in Lewes.
The pair moved from a stunning £1m cottage in Ditchling, East Sussex to the popular country town which is just eight miles away.