Mum and Dad still phone me after every One Show

Parents are her biggest fans .. and critics

- BY NICOLA METHVEN

SHE may have chalked up 15 years on The One Show but Alex Jones still wants her mum and dad to tell her she is doing a good job. Every night.

The Welsh presenter said her parents Mary and Alun are such big fans that they ring to critique her performance after each episode.

Alex, 48, said: "I remember way back in the early days, Mum and Dad had rung one night, as they do every night after the show, and they went, 'What are you doing tomorrow then?'

"I said, 'Well, the show's a bit different tomorrow. I think we're going to do a special on The Rolling Stones'.

"I didn't know... I mean, I knew their names, I knew there were four of them. My dad nearly collapsed. He was, like, 'Sorry, what? Put her on loudspeaker, Mary. What's she saying?"

Pressed on whether they still call her, Alex said: "Every night. And they won't always have a comment on the show.

"I mean, Dad, to be fair, doesn’t get a word in because there's always Mum but she'll say things like, 'Yeah, I just thought you needed a bit more blusher tonight'. Thank you for that.

"Or she'll say, 'That colour is not very you. And I'm, like, 'OK, well three million people were watching, so that's good'.