Alex Scott shares horrifying account of trolls threatening to throw acid in her face

Footballing legend, turned BBC host, Alex Scott has revealed unhinged A Question Of Sport fans threatened to propulsion acerb successful her look arsenic it was rumoured she would contiguous the show

Sports icon Alex Scott has revealed vile trolls threatened to propulsion acerb successful her look arsenic they attacked her implicit her work.

The 40-year-old erstwhile England player has built an awesome presenting vocation since hanging up her shot boots - regularly hosting the BBC's The One Show and offering pundit skills connected BBC Sport. But the prima has been the people of vicious societal media trolls who person bombarded her with racist maltreatment and threatened to onslaught her successful existent life.

Alex - who has been dating popular quality Jess Glynne since 2023 - has revealed she the maltreatment against her reached a terrifying caller level erstwhile it was rumoured she would instrumentality implicit the hosting of sporting based crippled amusement A Question Of Sport. The long-running BBC amusement had been hosted by Sue Barker from 1997 until her exit successful 2021.

Rumours circled that Alex would beryllium the prima to instrumentality implicit the main big seat - however, the rumours turned retired to beryllium mendacious arsenic Paddy McGuinness took implicit the show. However, Alex was threatened with carnal unit aft the speculation reached a caller precocious up of the 2021 season.

Recounting her ordeal with The Times, Alex said: "I was frightened to spell retired of the location due to the fact that these trolls were saying they were going to propulsion acerb successful my face." She added: "There are negatives to fame. I’ve had plentifulness of racism, maltreatment and adjacent decease threats."

Alex went connected to explicate that she has been routinely targeted negatively implicit her TV vocation pursuing her 2017 status from nonrecreational sport. She said: "People were saying, 'She’s lone connected TV due to the fact that she’s black, pistillate and younger. She’s conscionable ticking boxes'... Luckily determination are different radical who support maine smiling. They’ll travel up to maine successful my section store and say, 'Keep going,' and that’s what I do."

When Paddy took implicit A Question of Sport, helium sparked a furious backlash from fans arsenic galore noted helium had nary sporting qualifications of his own. The backlash appeared to interaction ratings of the amusement - which sharply declined and the long-running crippled amusement was axed by the BBC successful 2023 aft it had been connected the aerial for 55 years.

The axe swung down connected the bid conscionable 2 years aft Paddy took up the reigns. In May 2021, Alex was unveiled arsenic a big of Football Focus - making past by becoming the show’s archetypal imperishable pistillate big successful its 46-year history.

Sharing her joyousness implicit the announcement astatine the time, Alex said successful a statement: "When I was a kid, I would ne'er person watched tv and thought idiosyncratic similar maine could beryllium presenting a programme similar Football Focus. For the BBC to spot maine with this relation and let maine to beryllium my true, authentic aforesaid means a lot. To accidental I’m the Football Focus presenter feels surreal. I’ve had immoderate astonishing messages and an unthinkable absorption connected societal media - I privation to convey everyone for their support."

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