Woody Cook is following in his mum Zoe Ball’s footsteps
(Picture: PA)Woody Cook has revealed he’s taking a leaf out of his mum Zoe Ball’s career book and is in the process of landing his own radio show.
Over the summer, the 21-year-old performed at Glastonbury as well as in Ibiza and Mallorca - but Cook is about to turn his attention to commanding the airwaves, all from the comfort of his Bristol digs.
Speaking to The Standard, the Celebrity Gogglebox star shared: “I absolutely love presenting things. I love the broadcasting side, but I would only do projects related to music.
“I’m currently lining up a radio show with Koko in London. It’ll be online and broadcast everywhere. It would be a monthly show.
“I’ve got the full set-up, microphone, decks, in my room now.”
And it seems like it’s a natural progression for Cook, whose mother is the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast host, as he recalled being constantly ribbed for taking to the mic at parties.
“My mates get really annoyed at parties, because I just start talking through the mic and just taking the p*** out of people in the room,” he shared. “And my friends say, ‘Who in their right mind has given that man a mic?’”
Earlier this month, the star explained that he didn’t want to be known as a ‘nepo baby’ and insisted that the opportunities he’s been given thus far have been down to his own making and not by riding off the coattails of his celebrity parents.
Keen to establish his own path, Cook, who is also the son of Fatboy Slim DJ Norman Cook, explained that he’s never worked harder to land his covetable DJ set at Glastonbury this summer.
The Cooking with the Stars contestant explained how he worked several gigs for free to build up his profile in the months leading to his first Worthy Farm spot with Greenpeace.
He told us: “I have never worked harder than I did to get Glastonbury, I worked harder than I did on my exams to get my friends and I there. So, someone could say it’s nepotism, right?
“We asked my dad for help, and he was like, ‘no’ and it’s good, it’s how you grow. I wouldn’t want to be known as a ‘nepotism baby’.
“The responsibility is entirely in my hands, and you know if people want to yell, ‘nepotism’ and all that they can, but it doesn’t get to me too much.”
