Alex Jones hosted One Show hours after learning of her miscarriage
Alex Jones has revealed she hosted The One Show just an hour after finding out she had suffered a miscarriage in 2017.
The TV star, who has a twoyear-old son, Teddy, and is seven-and-a-half months pregnant with her second child, said the experience has made it hard for her to relax.
Jones said she found out she was expecting a second child in October 2017 with husband Charlie Thomson, 40, an insurance broker, while they were visiting his parents in New Zealand when
she became unwell. She said: “It was so unexpected, but we were thrilled. In hindsight, when I was very ill in New Zealand, that’s probably when everything was falling apart.”
When they arrived back in the UK, they arranged a private scan and learned that she had had a symptomless miscarriage. She said: “We learnt the baby didn’t have a heartbeat. I was around 14 weeks, which is a decent amount of time. The baby had stopped developing at about nine weeks. That was really hard. It hit us like a ton of bricks.”
An hour later she was back on television, even though her boss had told her she did not need to do the show.
Jones said: “I said, ‘What else am I going to do?’ It’s a horrible feeling because it is so empty. There’s nothing to say.”