The One Show's Alex Jones gave an update on her husband Charlie Thomson's health as she sat down with Gabby Logan on her podcast, Midpoint. The Welsh presenter, who hails from Ammanford, discussed balancing work with being a mother to three children under six years old, her love of nature and her family's lifestyle during the hour-long chat.
In true Alex form, the television star shared plenty of hilarious anecdotes but also got pretty candid at points. During the conversation, Gabby asked: "We are here now in this mid-life period with more written about than ever before about longevity and how to live your healthiest life, if you eat well, if you don't drink too much alcohol, if you exercise, how are you doing on all those pillars?"
Alex responded: "Well I think what drives me is the fact that we have got three young children, and I feel, for them, I need to do the best to preserve myself. Mum and dad have always been healthy, growing up we've always eaten a balanced diet, but more so, Charlie and I are focused on that.
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"He also wasn't very well last year," Alex continued before Gabby asked: "How is he now?"
"He's good, yes," Alex replied. "He's in a way better place now to where we were a year ago but diet has played a huge part in that. We always eat relatively well but he's quite into nutrition."
"So what things did he want to change then about his diet that the family has adopted?" Gabby quizzed.
"I think it was a way for him as well to fill his days in a sense when he wasn't feeling well," Alex said. "And he decided to take on this kind of role of, right well we've got the medication but I'm going to see what else I can do to help myself.
"He used to be a chef so cooking and food is very much something he loves and it brings him a lot of joy. I'm very lucky he cooks most meals, but I do say it's the glory job because nobody says 'you stacked that dishwasher so well,' so he does all the cooking but we eat really well.
"Lots of pulses, lots of greens, lots of vegetables, and this thing that was news to me that five to 10 a day isn't enough, it's the variety, eat the rainbow, I say it on a loop to my children."
Alex then joked: "Charlie makes all their meals, which is brilliant so they eat really well. Don't get me wrong Annie was having sugar at six months, Ted didn't even see sugar until he was three."
It comes after Alex appeared on the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast back in January and shared that they'd been through a "really bad period" where Charlie had both Lyme disease and viral meningitis, which impacted his mental health.
She said at the time: "I thought I was losing him, not actually losing him, but I thought oh my God where is he? I can't see him, I was looking at him and thinking I'm looking and hearing somebody who is not my husband." You can read more on this here.
Elsewhere in the episode, Alex discussed both her and Charlie's love of nature, sharing that their favourite things to do as a family with their kids, Teddy, six, Kit, four, and one-year-old Annie, is simple stuff like feeding the ducks, going on bike rides and visiting lavender fields.
Alex also revealed that her husband, who hails from New Zealand, is a "planet warrior" and that is the reason they spend so much of their family holidays in Wales. She said: "Because his family is in New Zealand and we have to fly there, we have to offset our carbon footprint by staying in the UK."
After gushing over Pembrokeshire, Alex said: "In the right weather, there is nowhere like the UK in general, we've got so many brilliant places. We are really spoilt."
She added: "It's holidays that I remember growing up, so as long as we get away with it that's what we do, and I think it helps us and our own mental health. It's that, eating healthy, a bit of exercise." For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
