13 October 2023 , 19:00
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He's a familiar face on TV and fans will recognise his smooth-talking voice on the radio, but Alexander Armstrong lives a low-key life with his family away from the cameras. The 53-year-old is best known for hosting BBC One's Pointless, alongside Richard Osman, and presenting his own show on Classic FM.
Having fronted Have I Got News for You along with a slew of other shows, Alexander has become a regular fixture on our screens. Though he actually started out as a singer and attended Cambridge University on a music scholarship, where he played the piano and cello, before replacing the latter with a oboe.
He was introduced to Hannah by a friend and became 'smitten' almost instantly (Alan Davidson/REX/Shutterstock)The television presenter met Hannah Bronwen Snow, who was then an events organiser for Harvey Nichols, after being introduced by a friend. Their paths crossed a few weeks later at a polo match, from which point Alexander once told the Manchester Evening News he was 'smitten'. He popped the question in Pisa, Italy, a year later and said the marriage was one of the best things to have happened to him.
"Married life is fantastic," he gushed at the time. "I'm really loving it. It gets better and better. In order for it to work at its best, you have to realise quite how good marriage is and I think that's what your first year is all about. I don't think getting married has changed our relationship at all though. At least it doesn't feel like it has. There is the very obvious thing that suddenly you're in it for the long run. But you don't worry so much about things, which is good."
The couple have four children together and it's thought that Hannah has been a stay-at-home mum to their sons Rex, Patrick, Edward, and Henry at their 26-acre farm in Bledington, Gloucestershire. Hannah is the sister of journalist and food blogger Esther Walker, who is married to restaurant critic Giles Coren.
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Alexander has previously shared his thoughts on parenting his sons with The Guardian, claiming he didn't initially realise how much work it would be. "Fatherhood is lovely but there is this slightly shocking moment when you realise it is not something you just wear and take off," he said.
"With your first child, you do perhaps go into it thinking, 'Yeah, this is a job you can clock in and clock out of,' but at about three weeks in, you suddenly realise it's not like that. You have to tread a fine line between making family life wonderful, and nourishing and wholesome, but you also don’t want to shirk your duties as a parent."
He went on to admit that he's probably the 'good cop' as a dad, but is also a 'slightly tedious cop' as he will wag his finder and be 'preachy' about his kids using devices too much. The dad added that family means 'everything' to him and it's the reason for everything he does. He claimed that before having kids, his career was his priority, but that has all changed and family coming first is 'crucial' to him.