Alex Jones was left fighting back tears on the latest edition of The One Show. The presenter was back fronting the BBC One show on Wednesday night (November 9) and after hosting solo the previous evening, she was joined by Jermaine Jenas.
The pair were joined live on the famous green sofa by comedian Tom Allen, who was on to chat about his new book, and former Strictly Come Dancing professional Oti Mabuse who was discussing her new documentary which is set to air on the BBC and explores her life in South Africa before becoming a dance and TV star in the UK.
But when speaking to Tom about his memoir, titled Too Much, Alex appeared emotional as she asked if she could read part of a letter he had written to his dad, who died last year.
"There's a bit at the end where you write a letter to your Dad and it's just lovely," Alex, 45, said. "There's a particular paragraph in there and I wondered if you would mind if I shared it with our viewers?" she then asked to which Tom replied: "I wouldn't mind at all."
Reading out a part of the moving letter, she said: "We were different weren't we, in lots of ways, you always accepted me though. Our differences taught me what love is, it doesn't matter how we expect it to be, it just is. I lived with you for so long because I wanted to be around you and mum and that was it. I just wanted us to be together, in life that's all any of us have, isn't it? Each other."
Alex then became choked up and said: "See? It's such a lovely sentiment and when we were in the pandemic and we came to do an interview, you were in your mum and dad's then. It makes so much sense to me. I really empathised with that."
Tom, who has spoken about how he moved out of his parent's home when he was 38, shared how grief is something we "rarely ever talk about" before adding: "There are moments where you feel quite light around it and you can laugh, and then there are times where you feel sad and you cry and sometimes it just feels complex."
Earlier this week, The One Show viewers said they 'felt for' Alex as she hosted the show alone. The Welsh TV star was joined on the famous couch by Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman as they discussed their new play. The pair take the lead roles as a couple in Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, a rom-com about "what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can’t say anything anymore."
As the pair were interviewed by Alex about the show, and were later joined by comedian and actor Ben Miller, some viewers thought they didn't appear happy. A lex told viewers that Jenna, star of Doctor Who and Netflix drama The Sandman, and Poldark heart-throb Aidan hadn't started working together on the play yet. Asking Aidan to sum it up in three words, he replied "not enough words."
Things then turned more awkward when she turned to him to explain what the unusual love story is about. "I'm going to give you the job of explaining," said Alex. "How many words, how many words?" he asked.
"You choose," she insisted. "Let me see how many I can do it in," he replied. He then told how it's about a couple called Oliver and Bernadette who live together when a 'hush law' is passed where they're only allowed to have 140 words per day.
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