Pater and also attended the Young Theatre at Beaconsfield where she trained as an actress. Her first TV appearance was as a child in the studio audience of the s Saturday morning children's show, Saturday Superstore, on which her father, Johnny Ball, was appearing as a guest. She worked as a researcher for quiz shows for two years.
Between and , she was a regular presenter on Top of the Pops, usually alternating with fellow presenters and DJs Jayne Middlemiss and Jo Whiley.
The show aired for one series lasting for ten episodes. She guest presented an episode of Film In , she took over from Claudia Winkleman as the host of Strictly Come Dancing's sister show It Takes Two, airing every weeknight on BBC Two and in co-hosted the main show whilst Claudia Winkleman was on leave following serious burn injuries to her daughter.
She became the sole host, the first female DJ to do so. At this time, her hard-drinking, hard-partying lifestyle contributed to the identification of the so-called "ladette culture" of the late s.
She was twice warned by the BBC for swearing on the radio. Her final breakfast show was on March 30, , and she was succeeded by Sara Cox.
Ball returned to radio in mid when she joined London rock station XFM, where she presented the weekday drivetime show until December , and then in January took over a Friday evening music show for the station. She also stood in for Ricky Gervais while he filmed the second series of The Office. She left XFM at the end of Since , she has provided relief presenting duties for BBC Radio 2, fronted specialist documentaries, sat in for Dermot O'Leary for three weeks in February and co-presented, with Danny Baker, the hastily conceived replacement for Jonathan Ross' Saturday morning show, in the wake of Ross' suspension due to Sachsgate in She also began hosting the Saturday breakfast show from am to am on the network from June 6, as part of a shake-up of weekend programming at Radio 2.
Ball left the Saturday breakfast show on Radio 2; her last show was broadcast on Saturday January 28, Her replacement in that slot was Anneka Rice.
We definitely want to be parents and this has given us an opportunity to really take a look at that part of our lives and see what we can do moving forward. Janette added that her new role feels like the ideal next step in her career, "It feels like the most perfect next step in my life but it's bittersweet because it means that I'm not going to be doing Strictly anymore and I cried a lot.
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