The One Show’s Alex Jones reveals the real reason she split from her famous ex – and it’s shocking
THE One Show’s Alex Jones has revealed the real reason she split from her famous ex Steve Jones.
The former TV couple dated between 1999 and 2002.
Alex, 49, opened up about what happened while chatting to Nick Grimshaw and Angela Harnett on their Dish podcast.
The telly star was working as an entertainment correspondent for Channel 4‘s Rise at the time, and claimed that her former beau took the opportunity to interview Angelina Jolie away from her.
Alex claims that she was shopping when she got the call – and Steve picked up the phone.
She explained in the podcast: “Normally they would call in the morning and ask to come and do an interview or a junket.
“I was staying in his flat at the time when I was working in London and he picked up the landline and said ‘Al’s not here. She’s not feeling well, she’s had to go back to Cardiff’, I was in Topshop.”
The Sun have contacted Steve Jones’ rep for comment.
This isn’t the first time that Alex has spoken out the incident.
The Welsh presenter previously brought it up on Angela Scanlon’s Thanks A Million podcast, but didn’t name the person she was talking about.
Alex said: “[My boyfriend at the time] moved to London and started working in London.
“So did I – I was recruited, believe it or not, on a show called Rise, which I don’t know whether you remember, it was a breakfast show on Channel 4 and I became the entertainment correspondent.
“I did all these junkets with film stars. So every Thursday I would come to London and then I would do Thursday and Friday with them and stay for the weekend. I must have been about 25 by this point…
“One day I was in Topshop on Oxford Street and the production company who made the show called the flat were we lived essentially and said we need to speak to Alex.
“Angelina Jolie is available for an interview and we need her to come and do it now.
“And he said, ‘oh Alex is ill and she actually in Wales, but I could come’. So off he went, I’m still in Topshop, unbeknown to me, buying cheap jeans and shoes.
“And so I got back to the flat and was like, where is he? Hours went past, nobody answering their phones and in the end thought, right I’m going to drive back to Cardiff, because I don’t know where you are, you’ve probably gone to the pub.
“And then the production company called, and they were like, we’ve got bit of a situation.
“Tomorrow morning your boyfriend is going to the premiere with Angelina Jolie and it would be really funny if you came on the line, live on the show and surprise him and said that you know exactly what he’s been up to.
“So again, I said yes, so on live telly I’m like, you lied to me, where have you been? So yeah, not surprisingly, we split up live on telly!”
Alex has been married to husband Charlie Thomson since 2015.
They share three kids Teddy, Kit and Annie.
Meanwhile Steve and wife Phylicia Jackson have been married since 2014.