Alex Jones claims she was ready to quit her day job for nursing
(Picture: PA)The One Show’s Alex Jones has said she would "swap" her TV career to become a nurse after spending six months as a fertility assistant for her new show.
The 45-year-old presenter trained at the King’s Fertility Clinic for, Alex Jones: Making Babies, and got such "job satisfaction" that she wanted to do it permanently.
"Honestly, after six months, I would swap my job to work with that team," she said.
"I always thought it might be nice to be a nurse when I was growing up. But, oh my God, just the job satisfaction.
"God, it’s much harder than what we do,” she added to The Sun.
"The level of satisfaction is off the charts, I was just in awe really every time I went through the door.”
In the series Jones was charged with real jobs on the wards, including taking blood from patients.
Jones, who gave birth to her third child with husband Charlie at age 44 last year, said helping couples to have babies made her emotional.
She said: “I thought I was lucky, I do a job I love. But motherhood is a totally different thing.
“It’s by far the thing I’m most proud of.
“I’m not an amazing mother all the time. I get things wrong. I question myself.
"But I felt lucky actually to be able to take the emotions home.
"I went home and they probably thought ‘What are you doing, you’re going to absolutely suffocate me?’
“I just grabbed them all and I would tell Charlie ‘do you know how lucky we are?’"
The series will run on UKTV’s W channel in January and, on UKTV Play, which will show an eleventh episode where she reunites with some of the patients she met and will also meet their babies.
