Alex Hooper-Hodson
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Alex Hooper-Hodson is a British journalist and relationship expert. He was the agony uncle of Sugar magazine for six years starting in September 2004 and ending in February 2010. Alex is also the regular weekly sex and relationships columnist for the Scottish newspaper The Daily Record
. Alex has also worked as a freelance journalist and has contributed articles to The Independent
, The Daily Record as well as various other publications.
is the world's biggest selling sex author, having written over 30 books in over 40 languages, including many international best-sellers. Anne Hooper
was an instrumental author in the British sexual revolution having written the first book to extensively discuss women's sexuality 'The Body Electric'.
Her partner Phillip Hodson
, Alex's father, was also a key figure in the British counselling media. He is head of media relations for the BACP - The British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists. He was also a well known television personality in the 1980s as the agony uncle for BBCs Going Live programme where he dispensed advice in a way never before seen in British media at the time. Phillip was the first TV counsellor to openly address issues such as child abuse and safe sex in the British media in a programme aimed at younger adults. Phillip is still fondly remembered today by a whole generation for whom he was a friendly face and a fount of knowledge. Phillip still works as a counsellor, journalist and media personality.
Alex has been published in newspapers since the age of nineteen when he was interviewed in The Independent. Alex has worked in the media extensively, having worked at an early age for the BBC, Reuters, Talk Sport radio, publishing and independent TV production and as a regular long standing columnist for national publications.
Whilst working on Sugar
magazine Alex was featured in a feature entitled '69 Guy Secrets Revealed' with Nick Carter
of Backstreet Boys
fame and Lee Ryan
from Blue
. That same year Alex was also selected to represent the 'youth' of Britain at the Westminster Diet and Health Forum where he gave a speech to MPs, Cabinet Members, Members of the House of Lords and senior doctors on the subject of teenage drug use and safe sex in the media. He was questioned extensively by the audience and the panel. He defended his position well. Amongst his congratulators following this debate was the Baroness Massey of Darwin who told him she thought his standpoint was intelligent, important and inspired.
www.annehooper.com
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
Daily Record (Scotland)
The Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. It had been the best-selling daily paper in Scotland for many years with a paid circulation in August 2011 of 307,794 . It is now outsold by its arch-rival the Scottish Sun which in September 2010 had a circulation of 339,586 in...
. Alex has also worked as a freelance journalist and has contributed articles to The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
, The Daily Record as well as various other publications.
Background
Alex comes from a significant background in this field. His mother Anne HooperAnne Hooper
Anne Hooper is a British sex therapist and author, who pioneered therapy groups for women with sex problems in the 1970s and 1980s and who wrote UK newspaper columns on the subject of human sexuality in the 1990s.- Books :...
is the world's biggest selling sex author, having written over 30 books in over 40 languages, including many international best-sellers. Anne Hooper
Anne Hooper
Anne Hooper is a British sex therapist and author, who pioneered therapy groups for women with sex problems in the 1970s and 1980s and who wrote UK newspaper columns on the subject of human sexuality in the 1990s.- Books :...
was an instrumental author in the British sexual revolution having written the first book to extensively discuss women's sexuality 'The Body Electric'.
Her partner Phillip Hodson
Phillip Hodson
Phillip Hodson is a British psychotherapist, broadcaster and author who popularised ‘phone-in’ therapy in his role as Britain's first 'agony uncle'. His afternoon and evening counselling programmes ran on LBC Radio in London for nearly 20 years...
, Alex's father, was also a key figure in the British counselling media. He is head of media relations for the BACP - The British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists. He was also a well known television personality in the 1980s as the agony uncle for BBCs Going Live programme where he dispensed advice in a way never before seen in British media at the time. Phillip was the first TV counsellor to openly address issues such as child abuse and safe sex in the British media in a programme aimed at younger adults. Phillip is still fondly remembered today by a whole generation for whom he was a friendly face and a fount of knowledge. Phillip still works as a counsellor, journalist and media personality.
Alex has been published in newspapers since the age of nineteen when he was interviewed in The Independent. Alex has worked in the media extensively, having worked at an early age for the BBC, Reuters, Talk Sport radio, publishing and independent TV production and as a regular long standing columnist for national publications.
Whilst working on Sugar
Sugar
Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...
magazine Alex was featured in a feature entitled '69 Guy Secrets Revealed' with Nick Carter
Nick Carter (musician)
Nickolas Gene "Nick" Carter is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, entertainer and actor. He is best known as a member of the pop group, Backstreet Boys. He went on to release a solo album called Now Or Never during their hiatus. He has made occasional television appearances and...
of Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys
The Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The band originally consisted of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson. They rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys...
fame and Lee Ryan
Lee Ryan
Lee Ryan is an English singer-songwriter, actor and member of the British boy band Blue.-Early life:...
from Blue
Blue
Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...
. That same year Alex was also selected to represent the 'youth' of Britain at the Westminster Diet and Health Forum where he gave a speech to MPs, Cabinet Members, Members of the House of Lords and senior doctors on the subject of teenage drug use and safe sex in the media. He was questioned extensively by the audience and the panel. He defended his position well. Amongst his congratulators following this debate was the Baroness Massey of Darwin who told him she thought his standpoint was intelligent, important and inspired.
External links
www.philliphodson.co.ukwww.annehooper.com
www.dailyrecord.co.uk