Alex Brooker has thanked The Final Leg viewers and his co-stars Adam Hills and Josh Widdicombe for making him really feel ‘snug’ about his incapacity because the present celebrates 10 years on Channel 4.
Alex, 38, started internet hosting The Final Leg with Adam, 52, and Josh, 39, again in 2012 as a nightly accompaniment to the Paralympic Video games.
However the programme was introduced again for an additional sequence on Channel 4 after the sporting occasion completed after viewers cherished it a lot.
Now, 10 years on from its first episode, with no signal of it being on its final legs, the trio paid tribute to how a lot the programme has modified all their lives.
It was Alex who turned significantly emotional as he mirrored on the actual fact the gig has enabled him to really feel extra ‘snug’ about being a disabled individual.
Adam kicked off the dialogue by exhibiting followers an image of himself, alongside Josh and Alex, from their first present a decade in the past.
All of them ripped into one another as per, with Alex joking: ‘Josh appears to be like like he’s styled his hair on toad from Mario Kart,’ with Josh cheekily swiping again: ‘Individuals overlook Alex was an property agent, he got here straight from work.’
Issues took a extra sentimental flip moments later when Alex shared simply how a lot being part of The Final Leg means to him 10 years on.
He defined to viewers: ‘That was 10 days that contract, are you aware what, I used to be taking a look at that photograph, do you bear in mind?’
The presenter, who was born with hand and arm deformities and a twisted proper leg which was amputated when he was a child, then paid an emotional thanks to his co-stars and followers.
He mentioned that earlier than showing on The Final Leg, ‘I’d by no means talked about my incapacity like that ever… being on this present has helped me really feel snug about my incapacity.’
Turning to Adam, Alex admitted: ‘I’d by no means met anybody with a leg like me till Josh I’d by no means met anybody with… no matter he’s acquired.’
The Devon-based comic made gentle of the quip, including: ‘It’s 10 years of individuals looking the phrase, what’s Josh Widdicombe’s incapacity!’
Adam, who acts as the primary host on the present, was born with no proper foot and wears a prosthesis, whereas Alex additionally wears a prosthetic leg.
The Final Leg airs Fridays from 10pm on Channel 4.
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