BBC One Show host Alex Jones gave Gabby Logan an update on her husband's health, as she sat down with the TV presenter to discuss career, family and health on Midpoint. The Welsh presenter, talked about balancing work and being a mother of three, as well as her love of nature and family lifestyle during the hour-long episode.
In true Jones form, Alex shared numerous hilarious anecdotes, before getting truly serious as the conversation turned. In their conversation, Gabby asked: "We are here now in this mid-life period with more written about than ever before about longevity and how to live your healthiest life, if you eat well, if you don't drink too much alcohol, if you exercise, how are you doing on all those pillars?"
To which, Alex responded: "Well I think what drives me is the fact that we have got three young children, and I feel, for them, I need to do the best to preserve myself. Mum and dad have always been healthy, growing up we've always eaten a balanced diet, but more so, Charlie and I are focused on that."
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Wales Live reports that she added: "He also wasn't very well last year," with Gabby, asking: "How is he now?"
Alex went on: ""He's good, yes. He's in a way better place now to where we were a year ago but diet has played a huge part in that. "We always eat relatively well but he's quite into nutrition."
Gabby then quizzed: "So what things did he want to change then about his diet that the family has adopted?" with Alex retorting: "I think it was a way for him as well to fill his days in a sense when he wasn't feeling well. And he decided to take on this kind of role of, right well we've got the medication but I'm going to see what else I can do to help myself.
"He used to be a chef so cooking and food is very much something he loves and it brings him a lot of joy. I'm very lucky he cooks most meals, but I do say it's the glory job because nobody says 'you stacked that dishwasher so well,' so he does all the cooking but we eat really well.
"Lots of pulses, lots of greens, lots of vegetables, and this thing that was news to me that five to 10 a day isn't enough, it's the variety, eat the rainbow, I say it on a loop to my children."
She joked: "Charlie makes all their meals, which is brilliant so they eat really well. Don't get me wrong Annie was having sugar at six months, Ted didn't even see sugar until he was three."
It comes after Alex detailed how her husband had went through a 'very bad period' during an appearance on Elizabeth Day's How To Fail podcast back in January. Charlie had suffered both Lyme disease and viral meningitis, which seriously impacted his mental health.
She said at the time: "I thought I was losing him, not actually losing him, but I thought oh my God where is he? I can't see him, I was looking at him and thinking I'm looking and hearing somebody who is not my husband."
Elsewhere in the episode, Alex discussed her and her husband's love of nature, sharing how their favourite things to do as a family is simple stuff like feeding the ducks, going on bike rides and visiting lavender fields with kids, Teddy, six, Kit, four, and Annie, one.
