Alex Beresford
All Around Britain and Good Morning Britain star Alex, 39, chats about early starts and working out with his son
● My colleague on Good Morning Britain, Ranvir Singh, and I are currently making a new Sunday morning programme for ITV. We visit different places like Longleat and Highclere Castle where they filmed Downton Abbey. I’m a fan of period dramas so it’s interesting to actually go inside!
● It’s great working with Ranvir as normally on GMB, it’s a live show and you don’t get to spend loads of time together. We laugh a lot in between breaks filming this series and I hope she does really well on Strictly. I’ve done Dancing On Ice in the past and when you do shows like that, you get very fit and shed a lot of calories!
● I’ve recently been standing in for Ben Shephard anchoring GMB with Kate Garraway and I love it. I keep pinching myself thinking ‘How am I here?’ Working with Kate is great. She’s demonstrated incredible strength in awful circumstances over the past few months [her husband
Derek Draper is critically ill with Covid-19]. The whole team at GMB is behind her, Derek and the kids. All of us are not giving up hope.
● Even though I have to get up early for GMB, I only need six hours’ sleep which means I still go to bed at a normal time! I try to be healthy too. For the whole of AllA round Britain, I’ve given my lunch orders in advance – lots of high protein and low carb foods. That said, I climbed the mast of HMS Warrior for the programme and I did have to have a slice of cake before!
ALL AROUND BRITAIN RUNS ON ITV EVERY SUNDAY AT 11.50AM