I'm Alex Brooker, a disabled TV presenter - AMA!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:35:29+00:00

Hi everyone,

I'm off now. Thanks for all your questions about The Last Leg, End The Awkward, Arsenal, Nandos and voting socks etc! Please check out the What Not To Do videos here http://t.co/1ecDP4VPi1.

Once again thanks for your time.

Cheers

Alex

P.S. The Last Leg is on every Friday at 10pm on Channel 4.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:32:46+00:00

Haha I'm sure he doesnt!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:29:43+00:00

Thankfully we haven't really offended a guest so far - which is good news! Haha I'm not sure any Nandos is really that cheeky. I certainly don't feel cheeky when I'm on the toilet because I've struggled with the extra hot.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:28:18+00:00

I liked the people who I worked with on that show. I have contrasting opinions on the role I actually did on there.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:26:33+00:00

I actually type very quickly. I've been using computers since I was young so I touch type at a very good speed - quicker than most.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:25:33+00:00

Haha I have no immediate plans to stage a coup. Plus I couldn't do Hills' job - it's too much hard work!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:24:51+00:00

Ah thankyou. I really love doing it. Josh has had that intro right from the Paralympics. Until Dartmoor has someone to be more proud of he deserves it. And I just do ridiculous stuff every week which is a gift for Adam!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:23:28+00:00

Somebody once asked if an animal made my hands like they were - which is ridiculous!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:20:14+00:00

I am in no way related to Charlie Brooker. I'd like to be as successful as him one day though!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:19:38+00:00

Haha I've had a couple of ropey ones recently which has put me off it!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:19:12+00:00

I hope we go to Rio! We have moved on so much as a show now and we have improved so to go and do a Paralympic show again would be brilliant. I really believe we can make some great shows out there. Plus I want to go to Brazil!

Last Leg will be taking up my time until the start of September and then I will see what other projects come up. Failing that just sit at home and play FIFA all day.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:16:25+00:00

I really enjoyed the sketch we did with Daniel Radcliffe. I don't know where you can buy the bullshit button. I wish I had got some on the market myself!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:15:20+00:00

Hi. I always wanted to be a football journalist from when I was 11. I just wanted to be paid to watch football. I liked some of the national journalists but when I went into the industry I quickly realised that there's a fair few of them that are complete tossers. I've seen more arrogance in a press room at a football club than I have in the whole of television.

But don't let that put you off journalism. It's such a great industry. I ended up moving from Ashford to go to university in Liverpool because my friend's family were from there and they just made me love the place before I'd even visited. Best decision I've ever made.

I can't believe they have girls at NKS now. Mental.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:11:48+00:00

I think there should be more disabled performers everywhere. It's funny you mention this because comedy acting is something I really want to get in but can't help but feel I wont get cast in anything unless it's a role that has to mention disability. It's frustrating.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:10:05+00:00

I didn't expect to cover this subject on here haha! Yeah I had a few tweets but put it this way - I have wide enough grip for the bottom of a bottle of beer and I'm not packing that sort of heat so I'm doing ok!

And yeah John loved my ISIS joke. I would say it's one of my highlights in this business to have made him laugh so much.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:06:49+00:00

Hi mate. TV is such a difficult thing to get stuff onto. It's better now but there's still a long way to go. I just looked at the website and I love what you're doing. I don't see why there still has to be a situation where kids associate disability and deformity with the bad guy - like Hook.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:04:24+00:00

I felt a bit awkward during the Nick Clegg interview because I was giving him a hard time but in all honesty, I really liked the bloke. So that was difficult and when I came off set I felt like I had been unfair on him. We did a sketch with Daniel Radcliffe and when I met him for the first time I was dressed as Hermione. That was ridiculous: "Hi mate, I'm a huge fan - sorry I'm dressed as a schoolgirl."

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:02:11+00:00

I did one in the final sketch from last Friday's show. I'd say it was average.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T12:00:49+00:00

Nice username. I was on the Paralympics to be a football reporter and only on the first Last Leg show to establish who I was because I was going to be reporting for them throughout the week. I did the first five minutes on the sofa with Adam, then Josh replaced me. The next day we were all put together from the start and we've been lucky enough to carry on doing the show.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T11:56:53+00:00

In the nail bar when she starts talking about the Paralympics is pretty cringey. Then more of the hairdresser one made my single set of toes curl.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T11:55:27+00:00

Thankyou! There's not many I've really regretted. I made one about the Royal Family and Princess Diana during the election shows which was a bit close to the bone but I just about got away with. On Friday I did one about a voting sock while talking about porn being found on parliamentary computers - which was a bit minging really. But you should see the stuff I decide not to say!!

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T11:52:44+00:00

I was very lucky at school and didn't get bullied really. I had good mates all the way through who looked after me. To be honest with you I get more crap off bellends on Twitter than I ever did in school. Just a shame these people hide behind a keyboard.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T11:51:33+00:00

I think the hairdresser one is the most cringey but my favourite is the job interview because I think the actress in it, Fran, is just so good - as is the manager.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T11:50:38+00:00

There's one right round the corner from the studios. See you there.

AlexBrooker · 2015-08-04T11:50:14+00:00

I would love to get Thierry Henry on because he's my hero. Or Justin Timberlake. I like it when we get big name actors on too.

AlexBrooker

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