Alex Winters Explained

Alex Winters
Birth Date:10 January 1977
Birth Place:Cardiff, Wales
Known For:Presenting CBeebies (2009–2016)
Occupation:Television presenter

Alex Winters (born 10 January 1977, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh children's television presenter and actor.

Winters studied Drama and Theatre Studies with Psychology in Liverpool before he worked on a range of theatre projects and as a supporting artist in the locally filmed programmes Torchwood and Doctor Who.[1]

Winters was named as one of two new continuity presenters for Discover and Do and The Bedtime Hour on the BBC children's channel CBeebies, alongside Cerrie Burnell.[2] His first presentation links were broadcast on 26 January 2009. Winters left presenting CBeebies in 2016.

Winters was one of eight celebrities chosen to participate in an intense week learning Welsh in an eco-friendly chic campsite in Pembrokeshire, in the series shown on S4C in May 2012.

After leaving CBeebies, Winters went on to found Gung-Ho!, an inflatable obstacle race company.[3]

In 2016, Alex was interviewed by Mormon Stories Podcast about his upbringing and his journey away from Mormonism.[4]

In 2021, he was the floor manager of Series 5 of CBeebies programme Justin's House.

In 2022, he starting working in international sport presentation.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: CBeebies names its two new presenters. BBC. 20 January 2009. 24 February 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090129130350/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/20/cbeebies.shtml. 29 January 2009 . live.
  2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/20/cbeebies.shtml "CBeebies names its two new presenters"
  3. Web site: CBeebies host Alex Winters tries out Gung-Ho! Cardiff before it opens this weekend. Wales Online. 20 May 2016. 21 February 2018.
  4. Web site: 669-670: How U.K./BBC TV Star Alex Winters (CBeebies) Lost his Mormon Faith. Mormon Stories Podcast. 10 November 2016. 10 November 2016.