Do we like Alex Jones?
Our score: 7 out of 10. No harmful words or acts turned up and she has spoken up about workplace behaviour, but her public record on bigger causes is thin.
Alex Jones is from Ammanford in Carmarthenshire and speaks Welsh fluently. She studied theatre, film and television at Aberystwyth, then cut her teeth on Welsh-language telly: the travel show Tocyn, the extreme sports series Chwa and the fashion programme Salon.
She has said she was too scared as a kid to admit she wanted to be a presenter, because nobody from South Wales seemed to become a broadcaster. After uni she worked as a researcher, was sacked twice by her own account, then got asked to audition on camera at 21. That led to BBC Choice and S4C.
The big break came in 2010, when the BBC named her the new One Show presenter alongside Jason Manford. She called it the break she had only ever dreamed of. Sixteen years later she is still on the sofa, now with Roman Kemp.
On the harm test, we found nothing. No remarks about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, vaccines or the climate turned up, and no dodgy projects or company. That's a clean sheet, but also a quiet one: she is a mainstream presenter who keeps out of culture wars, so there's not a lot of record either way.
The nearest thing to a stoush was the 2025 Jermaine Jenas affair. The BBC removed her co-host from The One Show and Match of the Day over alleged workplace conduct issues, and he was later sacked. Jones said she had no idea about the complaints until after he had gone. She did not defend him; she said men in the industry have to behave themselves.
She also said she had faced her share of inappropriate behaviour in her career, and only saw it for what it was in hindsight. That's a fair thing for someone with a big platform to say out loud, and it points the right way.