Dan Peppe, the DJ who found himself at the heart of the media storm surrounding the troubled marriage of Zoe Ball and Norman Cook earlier this year, has told Jack magazine that he was "shocked" when suddenly he, his friends and his family, were "at the mercy" of the tabloid press when news of Peppe's alleged affair with Ball was splashed across the Sunday papers in January.
Speaking to the magazine just before reports that Ball and Cook were back together he said: "You're at the mercy of the papers and they write whatever they want. If you're in a situation like mine, that's difficult. You do the right thing – you don’t make any money out of the story and you keep your mouth shut - so they just write what they want. It's a no-win situation."
Commenting on his decision to talk to the Sun about the alleged affair shortly after the story broke, he explained he hoped to take the media eye off him and his family by giving his side of the story. "My instincts were to say nothing, but I was told, 'You're starving a hungry beast. You've gotta give them something'. So I did one thing with the Sun, the idea being to calm things down. I had no idea it was going to be the front page. Obviously I was pretty shocked by what was going on, this was the early stages. I didn't get any money for it, the Sun made a donation to charity on my behalf.”