Alex Brooker
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15 May 1984
Alex Brooker | |
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.jpg) Brooker in 2026 | |
| Born | Alexander James Brooker 15 May 1984 |
| Education | |
| Occupations | Journalist, television presenter, comedian |
| Employer | Channel 4 |
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| Spouse | Lynsey Brooker |
| Children | 2 |
Alexander James Brooker (born 15 May 1984) is an English journalist and presenter best known for his television work with Channel 4.
Since 2012 Brooker has co-hosted The Last Leg, a Channel 4 panel show with Adam Hills and Josh Widdicombe. He co-presented Channel 4 ski-jumping show The Jump with Davina McCall in 2014. In 2016 he began presenting The Superhumans Show for Channel 4 daytime. In February 2018 Brooker signed with Leeds Rhinos' Foundation PDRL (Physical Disability Rugby League) team.[2]
Brooker went to the Norton Knatchbull School in Ashford, Kent, before graduating from Liverpool John Moores University in 2006[3] and working as a sports reporter on the Liverpool Echo. He now works for the Press Association.
Brooker entered Channel 4's Half a Million Quid Talent Search in 2012,[3][4] which aimed to find disabled talent for coverage of the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games and beyond. He first appeared as a trackside reporter on Channel 4's coverage of the 2011 BT Paralympic World Cup.[3] Brooker interviewed the likes of Boris Johnson and David Cameron during the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony and was a co-host on The Last Leg with Adam Hills, a nightly alternative look at the Games.[5] Brooker was also on The Last Leg of the Year, an end of year special with Adam Hills and Josh Widdicombe.
Since 25 January 2013 Brooker has been a co-host on The Last Leg on Channel 4.[6] In February 2015 Brooker interviewed Nick Clegg for the programme: his performance was described by political journalist Hugo Rifkind as "a model of how to talk normally to a politician – and make them talk normally back".[7]
On 1 August 2013 Brooker hosted a one-off documentary about body image on Channel 4, Alex Brooker: My Perfect Body.[8]
In January and February 2014 Brooker co-presented the first series of celebrity reality show The Jump on Channel 4 opposite Davina McCall. The series was broadcast live over 10 nights from a mountainside in Austria.[9] However, Brooker did not return for the second series in 2015. In 2016, he presented The Superhumans Show on Channel 4.
From 2020 to 2021, he co-presented One Night In with Josh Widdicombe.[10][11][12]
In May 2022, the BBC announced that Brooker would be one of the guest presenters to take over Richard Osman's role on Pointless.[13]
In 2024, Brooker participated as "Bigfoot" on the fifth series of The Masked Singer and finished in second place.[14]
Personal life
Brooker was born in Croydon.[1] He was born with congenital abnormalities of his hands and arm, and a twisted right leg which had to be amputated when he was a baby. He now wears a prosthetic leg.[15]
In 2014 Brooker married accountant Lynsey, and the couple have two daughters. The family live in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Brooker is a supporter of Arsenal F.C., appearing regularly on the Footballistically Arsenal podcast.[16]
Charity
In May 2014, Brooker fronted a campaign called "End The Awkward" by disability charity Scope, which used comedy to shine a light on the awkwardness that many people feel about disability. Brooker appeared in three advertisements guiding viewers through awkward situations that they may encounter with a disabled person.[17]
In September 2012, Brooker won The Million Pound Drop Live with Josh Widdicombe playing for Echoes Foundation, Scope Joseph's Goal.[18][19]
Brooker is the official ambassador of UK-based charity Legs4Africa.[20]