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Zoe Ball's heartbreaking final photo of mother Julia is revealed as devastated BBC Radio 2 DJ confirms her death to pancreatic cancer


The BBC Radio 2 star confirmed her passing in an Instagram post on Wednesday morning, alongside a photo of Julia in her youth.

Zoe Ball shared what what prove to be the final photos of her mother Julia during a New Year's break in the Caribbean, four months before her death to pancreatic cancer. Earlier this week, Ball told her BBC Radio 2 listeners Julia had been transferred to a hospice, as she dedicated a Bon Jovi song to paramedics who helped her. Ball shared the heartbreaking news last week that Julia was being transferred into hospice care, telling listeners that things were 'pretty tough at the moment for the family.'

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