 He continued with the show through until 2002 with a number of co-presenters including Jack Stratton, winner of a second nationwide search for a new presenter in December 1998, and Laura Jaye and Victoria Hickson, who replaced Fearne Cotton in 2001.Ballard also starred as Smee in a stage production of "Peter Pan" at the Central Theatre in Kent in 2001.He left "Diggit" in 2002 shortly before its relaunch into "Diggin' It".