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Alex Scott breaks silence over decision to wear One Love armband at Qatar World Cup
FOOTBALL Focus host Alex Scott has broken her silence over her decision to wear the One Love armband at the World Cup in Qatar.
Alex, who dates both men and women, wore it to show support for the LGBT community in the country – where same sex relationships are illegal.
Alex Scott wore the One Love armband despite players being banned from wearing them at the Qatar World Cup[/caption]
She wore the band as she covered England’s first game in Qatar, after the Three Lions were banned from doing so.
Former Arsenal Women’s player Alex, 38, said: “We all woke up to the news of the armband being banned.
“I remember being so sad.
“I was standing with the kit man, Andy, looking out, just full of emotion.
“I said: ‘Andy, no one’s told me I can’t wear an armband’.
He said: ‘Alex, you f***ing genius.’
“No one knew anything.
“I remember saying to Kelly who was going to interview me: ‘Kelly don’t say a word. All I’m doing is going to put this armband on and it’s going to speak for itself.’
“And that’s exactly what I did. This little thing and what it represents.”
Alex said her decision saw her being trolled and sent vile messages by strangers online.
Speaking at the 2023 Attitude 101 lunch at London’s Rosewood Hotel, Alex said: “After that I disappeared. I was in Qatar with all the abuse and I was like, I need to get away because I can’t believe something out of love could create so much hate and such a divide.
“It was Martin Luther King who said; Injustice anywhere is a threat to just everywhere. And by stopping wearing this arm band is exactly what was happening in Qatar.
“So I disappeared. I went to Barbados for a little while. And then I came back to the UK and to say I appreciate and love so much people coming up to me and saying what wearing this armband meant to everyone.”
Alex Scott reveals moment Uber driver tried to kidnap her in terrifying ordeal after saying: ‘Girls like you, I kill’
ALEX Scott has revealed the moment an Uber driver tried to kidnap her and said: “Girls like you, I kill.”
The football pundit, 38, says her “body went numb” when the driver told her he was not dropping her home.
Alex Scott has told of her Uber hell when a driver told her he kills ‘girls like her’[/caption]
The 38-year-old said she feared she’d never see her mum again[/caption]
The horror unfolded when she was working for the BBC at the World Cup in Russia in 2018[/caption]
She recalled fearing she would never see her mum again, and texting her agent to “send a search party” if she wasn’t back soon.
The horror unfolded while Alex was working for the BBC at the World Cup in Moscow in 2018.
She says the only way she managed to flee was by convincing the “sicko” she was a friend of Russian president Vladimir Putin – who she had only met that morning.
The 38-year-old recalled the horror in her memoir, titled How (Not) To Be Strong.
In her book, Alex told how the BBC usually insisted staff use official, pre-booked cars while on work trips.
But, having gone for a drink with a friend, she decided to get an Uber for the 15-minute journey back to the hotel she was staying at.
Alex recalled that just minutes into the trip the driver, who was “a stacked bald man, stocky, and wearing a grin on his face”, turned to her.
The Mirror reported Alex wrote in her book: “He looked at me and said – in English – ‘Tell them they will never see you again.’
“‘I don’t understand,’ I stammered.”
The former Lioness said the driver then opened Google Translate on his phone and spoke to it in Russian.
She waited with baited breath for the translation to appear.
Alex recalled her “body went numb” as she saw the words: “‘Tonight I am not taking you home,’ [it] read. ‘You come with me.’”
Alex described how, through the driver’s phone translation and his broken English, he began telling her “horrible, terrible things: how he takes girls like me, how they never make it home”.
She said she frantically messaged her agent from within the locked car and “told him if I wasn’t back in 15 minutes to send a search party”.
But the driver’s next haunting message delivered via his phone was: “Girls like you, I kill.”
Alex recalls: “‘Oh my God,’ was my first thought… ‘I’m never going to see Mum again.’”
Then, she had a brainwave – that she had been with Putin that morning.
Alex wrote in her book: “‘You can’t kill me,’ I said. ‘I have to see Putin tomorrow.’
“He started laughing. ‘No one sees Putin’. I was scrambling now, pulling up photos from the morning’s visit to the Kremlin that had made newspaper headlines.
“His laughter died and I could see the cogs whirring as he tried to process what I was showing him. ‘If I don’t see Putin tomorrow, he will find you.’”
She said almost instantly the Uber was heading back towards her hotel.
As they pulled up, the driver tried to touch her legs and kiss her before she clambered out.
Alex added: “I knew then what a near-miss I’d had but, rather than confront it, I just… brushed aside the incident like it had never happened.
“I didn’t want people to worry about me or think I couldn’t handle myself – just like when I was young.”
A Chat with Alex Klein, Founder at Vegan Lipstick Company: WYRL Beauty
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How sustainability and hybrid work has become a part of computer design | Alex Cho
Alex Cho, president of HP Personal Systems, showed off a bunch of gear from a HyperX keyboard with zany animal characters to HP’s latest Omen gaming PCs while at the CES 2023 tech trade show. Those new products from HP underscored the big trends of modern computer design, with an emphasis on sustainability and the […]