Alex Scott MBE is the former England and Arsenal footballer who has become one of the most recognised faces on British TV over the past year or two.
The 37-year-old Londoner is of Jamaican descent and found out she has a Jewish background on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are ancestry programme. Her mother is northern Irish, English and of Lithuanian-Jewish heritage, whilst her father is Jamaican.
Alex made 140 appearances for the England national team in football and represented Great Britain in the 2012 summer Olympics. She played with various football clubs from Arsenal, where she scored the winning goal for the 2007 UEFA Women's Cup Final, and Birmingham City to the Boston Breakers in America's professional soccer league for women, until her retirement in 2017.
