Alex rude on tonights One Show?
MissDexter
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Did i imagine it or did Alex Jones completely cut off the female guest mid-sentence and just go straight back to Jamie Oliver?
The lady was explaining how she started making dolls house things and Alex said something like "Now Jamie, let's play a game" and the woman slowly stopped talking in a sort of awkward slow motion.
The lady was explaining how she started making dolls house things and Alex said something like "Now Jamie, let's play a game" and the woman slowly stopped talking in a sort of awkward slow motion.
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I don't think Alex did it on purpose though TBH
Yes I saw that and said to OH that was so rude - she cut off that lady while she was talking. Alex Jones never seems to actually listen to the guests and seems to have no interaction with the guests or knowledge of the subjects being discussed.
How could she do it by accident?
She may have had the message in her earpiece to move on, but surely she could've done it better than that.
Thanks for all your nice tweets. Feel so bad about carol! I would never be purposely impolite to a guest. Hope you all have a nice evening x
Alex tweeted this about an hour ago!
Not everyone uses Twitter.
I wonder if she'll mention it on The One Show tomorrow - you know, to the people who might actually watch it/her rather than just follow her on Twitter.
Things like that happen on live television, sure they apologised to the lady afterwards and that is the important thing. Martha's Dad Tweeted..
Rapid cutaways are not unusual in any show like this when there are guests involved as they can be the ones who take more time talking than has been allocated. That's why quite often the presenters answer themselves, questions asked of guests.
It's not like the news where the contents are usually decided well before the bulletin and much of it is cutting back and forth between pre-recorded clips of a know length.
Very few "earth shattering and bulletin changing events" happen whilst the news is going out.
Sadly this lack of production values has the presenters as the fall guys and gals (no JS pun intended).
Alex looking good tonight I thought.
I presume we can take it that you don't like her.
Who do you think is an outstanding example of a female TV presenter so we can all criticise them?
Alex Jones always seems to do a perfectly good job as far as I can see and I can never see the resemblence to Christine Bleakley except them both being young women of about the same height.
This is true, but a talented presenter ought to be able to act on the producer's (or whoever is yelling at them about timing) earpiece advice subtly. Alex seems to act on the advice immediately rather than tactfully reacting to it with regard to the actual situation she's in. The trick is to quickly wrap up a segment that is over-running, but do it politely and seamlessly.
sorry have deleted this as replied to wrong post!
They're only human.
I'd imagine a show like hers becomes problematical when they have to make up time, by cutting stuff short, out completely, or changing the running order.
Conversely, the news is likely pretty much cut, dried and part-rehearsed before it airs, with a high proportion of it pre-recorded clips timed to the second, so it must be comparatively a pretty straightforward job.
But you can tell when Huw Edwards gets a message from his director ordering a change in content or running order, as he affects that "rabbit caught in the headlights" look.
Not that I watch it much, but Alex, sometimes, given some extremes of what she wears, seems as if she's just popped in on her way to Tesco's, or has stopped off on her way to a film premiere.
if you have a look at pictures of Alex Jones when she was first hired and had long hair, she was practically identical to Christine Bleakley, it was commented on at the time and probably the reason she cut her hair, many people said she had only been hired as she was so like CB.
At least she didn't move on from a serious item to some pointless competition to win 10 grand with by answering an easy question which Daybreak and This Morning presenters have to do all the time.
So basically either not listening or not knowing what to do and just asking the same question again.
That is the problem. I think people know that the show has a time limit and quick turnover but it's the way that the presenter handles it that matters.
This is true, but perhaps her's in this instance was a "knee-jerk" reaction to some pretty aggressive direction?
I'd imagine it's not unusual for that programme to run out of time.
I think the press just decided that anyone replacing Christine Bleakley would be a clone of her. The replacement could have been three foot tall with spikey bright red hair and they would have said she was a clone. Neither of them have particular distinctive hair styles or hair colours so hardly surprising that there were very superficial similarities but it was exaggerated by the press.
Brunette, brown eyes with a strong regional accent. At the time they did look kind of similar. They've both changed their looks/style now. Mostly Bleakley turning orange.
She's not Orange, she's Chelsea blue!
Perhaps she's a slave to her in-ear producer telling her to move on, do the next bit and so-on.
It could simply be that she can't do two things at once and has to bulldoze through the script or she'd bog down.
Now way! They picked her because she was a clone!