Zoë Foster Blake Explained

Zoë Foster Blake
Birth Name:Zoë Foster
Birth Date:28 July 1980
Birth Place:Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Children:2
Father:David Foster

Zoë Foster Blake (born 28 July 1980) is an Australian author, skin care founder and entrepreneur.

Early life

Zoë Foster Blake was born Zoë Foster on in Bowral, New South Wales, and was raised in Bundanoon, New South Wales.[1] Her father is the novelist David Foster and her mother Gerda Busch is a counsellor. She is the youngest in a blended family of eight children.[2] She studied media and communications at the University of New South Wales.[3]

Career

Writing

Foster Blake has published work in magazines since 2002. She was deputy editor of Mania Magazine, Smash Hits Magazine, and beauty director at Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, and the beauty website primped.com.au, which was acquired by News Corp in 2015. In addition, she has written the relationship advice column for Cosmopolitan since 2009, and wrote columns for Sunday Style magazine from 2013 until 2015. She started a beauty blog called fruitybeauty in 2006, and in 2015 it merged with her new site, zotheysay.com.

Foster Blake has written 17 books[4] and one audiobook. She is primarily published by Penguin Books Australia.[5] Five non-fiction: Amazing Face, a beauty tips and tricks guide; Textbook Romance, a relationship advice book for young women co-authored with her husband Hamish Blake; and Break-Up Boss, which offers practical advice for the brokenhearted, Amazinger Face and Love!. She has also published five novels: Air Kisses, Playing The Field, The Younger Man, The Wrong Girl and Things Will Calm Down Soon.[6] In 2020, she released Clean Slate, a novella audiobook narrated by Stephen Curry and published by Audible.[7]

In 2017, she published her first children's picture book, No One Likes a Fart. It won the 2018 Australian Book Industry (ABIA) Awards Children's Picture Book of the Year.[8] In 2020, Foster Blake published her second children's book, Back to Sleep, which was followed by Fart and Burp are Superstinkers in 2021, Scaredy Bath and Battle Mum in 2022, Fart's Favourite Smells in 2023, and The Best Present Ever in 2024.[9]

In November 2015, Network Ten announced it would screen a television show called The Wrong Girl in 2016, which was based on her novel of the same name.[10] [11] It ran for two seasons.

Business

In April 2014, Foster Blake launched a skincare brand, Go-To.[12] [13] In 2016, she launched a men's skincare line, Bro-To, and in 2019 she launched a children's bath and body range, Gro-To. In August 2021, BWX Group purchased a 50.1 per cent stake in Go-To for $89 million.[14] BWX went into voluntary administration in April 2023 and, in December 2023, Foster Blake and Go-To co-founder Paul Bates bought back BWX's stake in Go-To.[15] [16]

Other work

She launched a break-up app called Break-Up Boss in April 2017, which donates 10% of every sale to Safe Steps. She published the Break-Up Boss book in April 2018.

She is an ambassador for Tourism Australia, and Look Good Feel Better.[17] [18]

Personal life

In December 2012, Foster Blake married Australian TV and radio personality Hamish Blake in a private ceremony at Wolgan Valley, New South Wales, Australia.[19] They have one son, Sonny Donald Blake, born 10 May 2014, and one daughter, Rudy Hazel Blake, born 17 July 2017.[20] [21]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

Novels

Audiobooks

Children's books

Notes and References

  1. News: Under the Covers with Zoe Foster. 17 April 2015. ABC News (Australia). 5 February 2013.
  2. Web site: O'Brien . Kerrie . 2020-10-21 . Infidelity is never just what you think: Zoe Foster Blake . 2024-10-08 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  3. News: Hardy . Karen . 23 March 2014 . Zoe Foster: big change - no change: Becoming a mum won't keep Zoe the writer out of the single girl arena . 17 April 2015 . The Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. News: Le Marquand . Sarrah . 2024-09-23 . 'Of course there have been failures’: Zoë Foster Blake on business, beauty and her latest book . 2024-10-08 . The Daily Telegraph.
  5. Web site: Zoe Foster on Penguin Books Australia . 17 April 2015 . Penguin Books Australia.
  6. News: Miller. Megean. Why Zoe Foster's the 'It girl'. 17 April 2015. Herald Sun. 3 March 2012.
  7. Web site: O'Brien . Kerrie . 2020-10-21 . Infidelity is never just what you think: Zoe Foster Blake . 2024-10-08 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  8. News: 2018 ABIA Winners. 2018-05-28. en.
  9. Web site: Kembrey . Melanie . 2021-10-29 . She’s a millionaire, so why is Zoe Foster Blake still writing picture books? . 2024-10-08 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  10. Web site: Survivor, Offspring, dating and reality franchises: TEN sets a course for 2016. Kalina. Paul . 19 November 2015 . The Age . Fairfax Media. 14 June 2016.
  11. Web site: The Wrong Girl: New Aussie Drama on TEN . Staff Writer . Ten Insider . 19 November 2015 . Ten Play - Ten Insider . Ten Network Holdings Limited . 14 June 2016.
  12. Web site: Home . gotoskincare.com.
  13. News: Brain . Anna . 22 March 2014 . Zoë Foster-Blake makes her mark far beyond her funnyman husband Hamish's shadow . Herald Sun . dead . 17 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140322040307/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/zo-fosterblake-makes-her-mark-far-beyond-her-funnyman-husband-hamishs-shadow/story-fni0fiyv-1226861379493 . 22 March 2014.
  14. Web site: LaFrenz . Carrie . 2021-08-26 . BWX buys majority stake in Zoë Foster Blake’s skincare brand for $89m . 2023-04-04 . Australian Financial Review . en.
  15. Web site: Kruger . Colin . 2023-04-03 . Zoe Foster Blake’s Go-To for sale as BWX collapses . 2023-04-04 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  16. Web site: Yun . Jessica . 15 December 2023 . Zoe Foster Blake buys back ownership of Go-To Skincare for $21.8 million . 19 December 2023 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  17. Web site: Dennis . Anthony . 2020-10-12 . Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster-Blake tourism campaign: Tourism Australia launches domestic travel campaign despite border closures . 2024-10-08 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  18. Web site: List of Patron & Ambassadors . 17 April 2015 . Look Good Feel Better.
  19. News: Heath. Nicola. Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster: wedding details. 17 April 2015. Yahoo! 7 Australia. 17 December 2012.
  20. News: Lee-Longhetti. Chloe. Zoe Foster Blake and husband Hamish welcome baby boy Sonny in time for Mother's Day. 17 April 2015. The Daily Telegraph. 11 May 2014.
  21. Web site: Zoe Foster Blake and Hamish Blake having second baby, share news 'Beyonce style'. 3 February 2017. News.com.au.

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