Alex Brooker, disabled journalist and comedian
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Bruno CookDecember 31, 2020
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Tonight’s The Wall Versus Celebrities features comedian and journalist Alex Brooker. Who is Alex Brooke and what is his disability?
The Wall Celebrity Guest: Alex Brooker
Croydon-born Alex Brooke is a journalist, TV presenter and comedian.
He regularly works with Channel 4, co-hosts The Last Leg (with Josh Widdicombe and Adam Hills) and The Jump (with Davina McCall), and hosts The Superhumans Show.
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alex brook join in The 2018 Leeds Rhinos Foundation Physical Disability Rugby League (PDRL) team.
Brook’s work often deals with disability, especially the embarrassment many feel when discussing disability.
In May 2014, he led a campaign called Ending Embarrassment by disability charity Scope. The purpose of the campaign is to use comedy to highlight the difficulties many people experience when thinking about and talking about disability.
Tonight’s episode of The Wall will be Alex Brooker’s first appearance on the show.
What is Alex Brooke’s disability?
Brooke was born with what he had describe It’s called “hand and arm disability”. His hands were brought together, or “glued,” in front of his body and required surgical separation after birth. He also lacked a single bone in his lower right leg.
Brooke had his right foot amputated when he was 13 months old to avoid further complications later on.
Over time, he told John Bishop, he underwent a series of operations on his fingers and hands. Watch the conversation below.
in a interview In Disability Horizons, Brooke discusses an early challenge his parents had to face: education.
“I remember when I was younger my mom was worried that I was going to go to mainstream school,” Brooke told Emma Purcell. “She wanted to send me to a disabled school.
“But my dad was desperate for me to get into mainstream school. So, that’s what happened. I was lucky with all the teachers from elementary to middle school.”
Is Alex Brooke Married?
alex brook Married His wife Lynsey in 2014 – despite Hello Magazine estimate They tied the knot in 2015. The couple has two children.
They keep their private lives private. In November 2015, Lynsey appeared with Alex on All Star Mr & Mrs. Since then, she has stayed out of the public eye.
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Bruno is a novelist, amateur screenwriter and journalist with interests in digital media, storytelling, film and politics. He has lived in France, China, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, but returned to the UK in 2020 to pursue a degree (and because of the pandemic). His articles appear in Groundviews, Forge Press, and The Friday Poem, most of which are available at Medium or onurbicycle.com.
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