EXCLUSIVE One Show's Alex Jones brands colleague rylan 'the loveliest boy' ...and a 'pusher of tequila'
When Alex Jones arrives for her interview in her role as President and host of the coveted TRIC Awards, she is casual in a plain t-shirt and jeans and is begging for a bottle of water.
"I think that’s part of the enormous mum guilt. Even if I do the last story at least I’m there and I’ve checked in.” Annie - whose name, Alex reveals, was inspired by the lead in the film Father of the Bride - joins her big brothers Teddy, five, and Kit, three, at the family home in London. Alex wakes at 5am daily to tend to her brood before heading off to work at 3pm and clocking off at 7.30pm.
Of course, making the decision to return to her seat on the nation’s favourite magazine show hasn’t been without its sacrifices. Alex says she regularly struggles to stay across all her mum duties, and feels heartbroken at the thought of missing her kids’ “little moments”. "Ted’s in school and Kit does nursery twice a week and then I’m with him the rest of the week. I think the youngest ones, they get a lot of me, but once Ted went to school things really changed and I really noticed. I take him every morning but sometimes I don’t see him until the next morning.”
"Because I work quite a lot as well, those days are really precious and that’s what we’re embracing. There isn’t a lot of time for us in it, but we’ll be alright. We’ll still be there together when we come out of the other side.” On making the transition from two to three, she laughs: “I think once you’ve got one child you’re committed,” she laughs. “You’re in the zone and your life will never be the same, whether you’ve got one or four. I think we noticed the difference with two - that upped a gear a little bit more, but with three - and thankfully because Annie has the temperament she has - we’re very lucky.”
Alex returned to work at BBC1’s The One Show just three months after Teddy was born and later said perhaps she should have waited – she was still breastfeeding so it meant having to express milk while she was away, adding stress to an already high-pressure situation. “I have a whatsapp group with Ronan and Jermain - it’s lovely because we’ve all got children the same age. Jacob, Jermaine’s youngest, is two months younger than Annie and Olivia is a year older than my eldest so they’re close in age.
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