TV presenter Alex Jones has spoken about some brilliant life and career moments while appearing on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, including locking King Charles in a toilet and fellow TV star Davina McCall invigilating some of her university exams. The One Show host spoke very candidly to podcast host, journalist and author Elizabeth Day about some of her career mishaps.
Alex explained to Elizabeth that she had been working for an independent television company when she accidentally locked King Charles, then Prince Charles, in the toilet. The company had received a grant to help youth in a deprived area in south Wales and create a space where young people could learn about and receive opportunities in the media.
King Charles came to open the venue which Alex told was by a river that did not smell very nice and which you could smell in the men's toilets. Alex said she "took the initiative" to lock the men's toilets so that Prince Charles didn't go into the smelly toilets.
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While Alex went to get the key to lock the toilets Prince Charles and his aide entered the toilets, unbeknown to Alex, and she locked them in. She said: "I came back, locked the door, fine. Then there was this massive sense of panic...this went on for a bit and then this knocking, I thought 'oh s**t! That knocking is coming from inside the men's loo!' and of course, there he was. I'd locked it as he'd obviously gone in whilst I'd gone to get the key."
Alex went on to call King Charles "a very nice man" and also told Elizabeth about the time TV presenter Davina McCall was the invigilator for her university exams. When Alex was due to take part in her university final exams she was taking part in a gameshow called Prickly Heat which was being filmed in Magaluf and hosted by Davina.
After begging the university, Aberystwyth, to let her go on the show they actually flew the papers to Magaluf for Alex to sit her exams with Davina invigilating. Alex said: "I sat in a gym, at exactly the same time as my friends back in Wales, and Davina was there going right you've got half an hour left."
Alex said that looking back it was "surreal" she sat her exams in Magaluf and that Davina and her now joke about the experience when they see each other.
You can see Alex most week nights on The One Show on BBC One at 7pm and currently, she's also fronting her own documentary about fertility, Alex Jones: Making Babies, on W, on Thursdays.
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