Alex Jones has opened up about her wild appearance on raunchy 90s dating programme Prickly Heat, admitting that "everyone was having sex with everybody."
The One Show presenter featured on the Sky series in 1998, aged 21, while studying theatre, film and television at Aberystwyth University. The show, presented by Davina McCall and Julian Clary, involved contestants staying in a villa in Magaluf and taking part in various challenges, and has often been described as a precursor to Love Island.
Speaking on Jamie Laing's Great Company podcast, Alex explained how she pleaded with her university to send her exam papers abroad, allowing her to fit in her finals around filming. Davina stepped in to act as an invigilator, but the day before her exam a fellow contestant reportedly grabbed her revision notes and hurled them into the sea.
Elsewhere in the interview, Alex reflected on the sexting scandal surrounding her former co-host Jermaine Jenas, admitting she was "the last to know". Jenas was sacked by the BBC in 2024 after sending inappropriate messages to female employees, which also cost him his marriage. Alex said she respected the women who spoke up, adding: "If it was my daughter, and she was at work in whatever industry and she felt uncomfortable, I would hope to God that I'd given her the tools to be able to speak up."
She also suggested she would not have complained in the past, saying: "Nothing has made me shudder. And I know the type of girl I was then, and I wouldn't have handled it."
