Alex Jones was born in March 1977 in Ammanford, Camarthenshire. Following early presenting jobs on BBC Choice, S4C and Channel 4, she started hosting BBC One’s The One Show in 2010. She has since hosted Close Calls: On Camera , has competed in Strictly Come Dancing and co-presented the Invictus Games.

In her Letter to My Younger Self , Jones reflects on a mischievous streak as a youth, her secret ambition to become a TV presenter and growing up on screen.

My relationship with my parents has always been really good. Now I hold up my parents as models of how to raise my own children . My children are really young at the minute, but the fundamentals of family life are exactly the same, even though we live a very different life to what I did as a kid. Mum and dad are really hard-wo

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