Close Calls: On Camera
04:00 am - 04:30 am, Saturday, February 14 on True Crime (67)
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Season 3, Episode 6
A pit stop in a motorcycle race is engulfed in flames when fuel spills out of a rider's tank, and a holiday maker on safari gets too close to a family of cheetahs. Presented by Alex Jones
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Alex Jones
(Presenter)
Born:
March 18, 1977
in
Ammanford, Carmarthenshire
Best Known For:
The One Show.
Early-life:
Born Charlotte Alexandra Jones in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, on March 18, 1977. After training as a ballet dancer as a child, Alex went on to study theatre, film and TV at the University of Aberystwyth.
Career:
After graduating, Jones worked as a TV researcher before stepping in front of a camera. She went on to present a number of programmes on S4C, including Can i Gymru, Salon, and Tocyn. Her big break came in 2010 when she became the co-host of The One Show. Since then, she has co-presented Let's Dance for Comic Relief, and in 2011, she partnered with professional dancer James Jordan on Strictly Come Dancing - they were eliminated a week before the final. In August 2014, she began presenting BBC One celebrity gymnastics contest Tumble. Jones began presenting daytime BBC One series Close Calls: On Camera in 2015 and she started co-hosting BBC series Shop Well for Less? in 2016.
Quote:
"I grew up on S4C and it doesn't matter whether there are 100 people watching or listening or five million, every single person in that audience is really important."
Trivia:
Alex is fluent in English and Welsh.
Chris Riley
(Executive producer)
Kate Roberts
(Executive producer)
