Alex Jones ( The One Show)

Having a career one enjoys is the same as a boring job gilly, both are work.

Personal attack’s ? What are you on about
Annie ?

Alex Jones and Holly Willougby aren't the main breadwinner? You mean their partners earn more than £400k pa. I disagree they are being greedy. They are currently highly successful, and wish to stay that way as long as possible. Good on them.

There’s no way they’re the same Annie .

Dreading going to work for 40+ hours doing the same mundane / physically hard job that you hate can’t be compared with doing something you look forward to and love doing .

It is still work gilly.

Well then we will have to agree to disagree then Annie

Yes we will gilly.

Is it the weather as this is the most judgemental and fractious thread for a long time our site (I've got horrendous hay fever and sneezing and irritable)? Live and let live, let's not start bickering amongst ourselves. Alex is a woman luckily in a position to make choices not forced back to work for money. If she wants to go to work with a new baby so what? I didn't and stayed home until the youngest went to school at 5 - but that was my choice backed by my husband. Does seem a little envious from some. And if you don't want to read her book, dont. Sad to comment she shouldn't have written because of who she is.

If I'm remembering the correct show, when The One Show was launched, the original female presenter was a very pregnant Mylene Klass. She gave birth very soon after, and never presented the show again. AJ does well to return quickly!

Can't stand The One Show - the music alone makes us rush to turn the channel over if it's inadvertently on BBC1 so I had no idea who AJ was until she was on LW this week. My husband's pet hate when anyone comes on any programme promoting their new book/record/tv show - he's Mr Cynical personified. She seemed quite nice though and did say that she and her husband found it very difficult looking after the new baby. But didn't we all? Very few new parents breeze through the first year with no worries. Not sure it gives us the impetus to write a book about it.

Gilly it was my own business that I started when I was 21 ,I still work in it 40 years on and still love it.Part time now though as I look after 4 GC ....a lot

That’s amazing Paddyann very good for you ! I think it’s very different when you love what you do.

Gosh why do TV and radio "personalities" get paid so much money?! Just for whittering away ...

Who watches Loose Women? It makes my teeth curl.

Having read through this thread (supposed to be working?) I can't see much time given to the baby in the debate. Most posts seem to focus on mum's happiness, either at home or at work, but what is best for the baby? Surely when you become a mum your child's needs are put above your own. Whilst I totally understand that there are a lot of mum's who must work to pay bills etc, the thread began about a wealthy woman who chooses not to care for her baby herself. Seems odd to me. Who would the baby rather be with? It's own mum or a nanny?

Lots of Young Mums love shared care, if they can afford it and to have the adult contact and challenges of work. Plus the baby gives them a social life. Win win.

I think Alex Jones and her husband baby share, many do this now. I would choose a nanny so the baby could stay in his/her home than go to a nursery. Many do not have the choice .

Nanny27 a happy mum will have a happy baby ,my daughter had bad PND after baby 1 ,so when baby 2 was born she wanted to get back to work quickly.She went back when my GD was 3 weeks old... and she job shared with me and we shared child care too.With me walking to the office with GD for breastfeeds .It made all the difference to her and her consultant who suggested it was absolutely right to do so,she didn't get the crippling PND she had first time around .

Where is Dad in this scenario? Why is Mum always pilloried, whatever she does.

Good luck to AJ returning to work if that is her choice.It is the ridiculously high salaries paid by the BBC which we should be concerned about.Nearly one million pounds a year is paid to present that show.The gap between the rich and the rest grows wider every day.

Alex Jones doesn't only do The One Show, she appears on other programmes and other channels - so she isn't a part-timer.

the thread began about a wealthy woman who chooses not to care for her baby herself. Seems odd to me. Who would the baby rather be with? It's own mum or a nanny?
I expect that Alex Jones has plenty of time to spend with her baby - and her DH and/or nanny will be there when she can't because of her career commitments.

I don't think a baby cares really, as long as it's fed, dry, warm and happy

I have a terrible job, that actually takes far more time to do than I am paid for, but to be fair, allows me to be there for my son... I HATE my job.. with a vengeance, but given where I live, have no choice, there is NOTHING else here, it's only "officially" part time but drains me so much I am knackered the rest of the time... so yes, there is a smacking big difference between doing a job you enjoy and a nasty tiring one you do because you simply have to to survive

Well said GoldenAge

Same old, same old.

GoldenAge - well said
horror - how is Matt Baker managing his child care? I understand his OH is a working woman, are they sharing child care, do they have a nanny - or is she taking time out to be a SAHM

Is anyone interested?
No - because he's a man.

as someone who worked since I was 15 and raised a family AND ran a house and two businesses..I wondered exactly what SAHM found to do all day .Is it really necessary or do the mothers just like a wee skive ?