Editing Fatboy Slim (section)

== Personal life ==
Cook's first marriage, to a nurse, ended in the early 1990s.<ref name="BBC stardom" /> Cook met the BBC presenter [[Zoe Ball]] in Ibiza in 1998.<ref name="BBC stardom" /> They married in 1999 and had their first child in 2000. Their relationship attracted extensive tabloid attention, and Cook said he was a victim of the [[News International phone hacking scandal]].<ref name="Petridis-2004">{{Cite news |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Petridis |date=2004-09-10 |title=How the Fatboy grew up |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/sep/10/popandrock4 |access-date=2025-03-23 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="Jonze-2013" /> ''The Independent'' described them as "the It Couple (or, one of them) of [[Cool Britannia]]".<ref name="McLean-2015" /> Cook and Ball separated in 2003, but reconciled and had a second child in 2010.<ref name="BBC News-2016" /> As of 2004, they lived on Western Esplanade in Hove.<ref name="Petridis-2004" /> On 24 September, 2016, Cook and Ball announced their separation after 18 years.<ref name="BBC News-2016">{{cite news |date=24 September 2016 |title=TV's Zoe Ball and DJ Norman Cook announce separation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37464920 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>

For several years, Cook used drugs including cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine, and performed while intoxicated.<ref name="Petridis-2004" /> After the birth of his first child, he worried that his drug use affected his relationships.<ref name="McLean-2015" /> On 4 March 2009, Cook checked into a rehabilitation centre in [[Bournemouth]] for alcoholism. His performance at [[Snowbombing]], a week-long winter sports and music festival held in the Austrian ski resort of [[Mayrhofen]], was cancelled, with the slot filled by [[2ManyDJs]]. Cook left the clinic at the end of March.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idiomag.com/peek/73236/fatboy_slim|title=Fatboy Slim leaves rehab|access-date=1 April 2009|date=31 March 2009|publisher=[[idiomag]]}}</ref> As of 4 March 2022, he had been sober for 13 years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marshall |first=Olivia |date=2022-03-03 |title=Fatboy Slim celebrates 13 years of being 'sober and clean' |url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19967067.hoves-fatboy-slim-celebrates-13-years-sober-clean/ |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=[[The Argus (Brighton)|The Argus]] |language=en}}</ref> Cook said performing sober gave him stage fright for the first time.<ref name="Jonze-2013" />

In 2002, Cook changed his name by [[deed poll]] to Norman Quentin Cook.<ref name="Deedpoll">{{Cite news |date=8 July 2002 |title=Changes of Name |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-56625-852 |periodical=[[London Gazette|The London Gazette]] |publisher=[[Her Majesty's Government|UK Government]] |place=London |page=8166 |issue=56625}}</ref> In the same year, he purchased a 12% share in [[Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club]], which he has supported since moving to Brighton in the 1980s.<ref name="DJ Mag-2018" /> In June 2013, Cook opened the Big Beach Cafe in Hove in a property previously owned by [[Heather Mills]], and worked there during the [[COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom|COVID-19 lockdowns]].<ref name="Haddad-2013">{{Cite news |last=Haddad |first=Sam |date=2013-08-16 |title=Fatboy Slim's new Brighton beach cafe |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/aug/16/fatboy-slim-big-beach-cafe-brighton-hove |access-date=2025-03-29 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="Petridis-2022" /> He has also owned or co-owned a Japanese restaurant Brighton, Oki-Nami, and [[the Spotted Pig]], a [[Michelin-starred]] gastropub in New York City that closed in 2016.<ref name="Haddad-2013" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Moskin |first1=Julia |last2=Severson |first2=Kim |date=January 27, 2020 |title=The Spotted Pig, where employees were sexually harassed, closes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/dining/spotted-pig-closes-ken-friedman.html |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> He collects objects bearing the [[smiley]] symbol, and in 2019 he curated a smiley exhibition in Lisbon with the Portuguese artist [[Vhils]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Davies |first=Caroline |date=2019-06-16 |title=It's not an emoji: Fatboy Slim launches smiley exhibition |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/17/its-not-an-emoji-fatboy-slim-launches-smiley-exhibition |access-date=2025-03-23 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>