Alex Scott has spoken for the first time about her secret long-term relationship with fellow Lioness Kelly Smith. Check out her love Affair.
Alex Scott : Love Affair | Married | Lioness | Partner
Scott was born in Poplar, East London to a British mother with Northern Irish, English and Lithuanian-Jewish heritage and a Jamaican father.
During the filming of the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? in 2021, she discovered that her maternal great-grandfather was a Jew who opposed fascism in East London, and that her 4x great grandfather, a black man, owned 26 slaves.
Scott attended Langdon Park School which has been granted Sports College status. Scott and rapper Dizzee Rascal, also a past pupil, both represented GB (in their own fields) at the 2012 London Olympics.
In 2019, Scott was inducted to the English Football Hall of Fame. As of 2019, Scott is a pundit for BBC Sport and Sky Sports and was featured during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Love Affair
Alex Scott has spoken for the first time about her secret long-term relationship with fellow Lioness Kelly Smith, saying she fell “madly and deeply in love” with the striker as a young player.
The BBC star, now 37, will speak candidly about their romance in her new memoir, How (Not) To Be Strong, and her subsequent heartache when they split – but says she wouldn’t change a thing.
At the time, both women had their demons. Kelly, who is six years older than Alex, was in the grip of alcoholism while Alex’s traumatic upbringing with her controlling father had left her vulnerable.
When it came to writing the chapter which revealed that football ace Kelly had been her first love, the deeply private Alex said she nearly couldn’t bring herself to do it.
Alex, watched from the audience by her mum, explained: “I went back and forth on whether I’d actually be writing the chapter. But then it was one of those moments, I’m writing this book and I want to tell everything. I thought I’d be cheating you all if I didn’t put that in there.
And for me, it’s like that first love story, I fell madly and deeply in love. And yes, there’s that heartbreak and those things, but it’s a huge part of my life and I wouldn’t go back and change that.
Alex Scott Married
Alex Scott is currently single but has opened up about how she is “ready” to find love following a series of “unhealthy relationships”.
She said: “I’ve been single for a while now, and I think that’s because I needed to be.
“There were patterns in my relationships that I knew were not healthy.”
The star admitted that she’s now ready to make herself more vulnerable and open up again.
She explained: “I understand myself more now.
“Before I always had these walls up because I was trying to protect myself and protect people around me.
“Now I’m ready to let them all down. I’m ready to be loved,” she told The Times.
Alex Scott Lioness
Former Lioness Alex Scott has opened up about her relationship with teammate Kelly Smith, confirming for the first time that they had a romance.
The TV pundit and former footballer, 37, who played alongside Kelly, 43, during their time with England and Arsenal, has written a memoir in which she takes a candid look back at her life, including her “first love” Kelly. Speaking at a London book launch for How (Not) To Be Strong, Alex said she almost left out the chapter which details their “love story,” but in the end felt it would have been “cheating” to do so.
She said: “I went back and forth on whether I’d actually be writing the chapter. But then it was one of those moments, I’m writing this book and I want to tell everything.
“I thought I’d be cheating you all if I didn’t put that in there. And for me, it’s like that first love story, I fell madly and deeply in love.
“And yes, there’s that heartbreak and those things, but it’s a huge part of my life and I wouldn’t go back and change that. Because that feeling of love and that excitement and what it gives you, it needed to be in there.”
Partner
Alex Scott has confirmed she was in a relationship with former Arsenal teammate Kelly Smith, recalling falling ‘madly in love’ with her.
The pundit and former Lionesses player will open up about the romance, and her heartache when they split, in her memoir How (Not) To Be Strong.
Alex said she nearly couldn’t bring herself to write the chapter, but added at her book launch in London that it would have felt like ‘cheating’ to leave it out
‘I went back and forth on whether I’d actually be writing the chapter,’ she said.
‘But then it was one of those moments, I’m writing this book and I want to tell everything. I thought I’d be cheating you all if I didn’t put that in there. And for me, it’s like that first love story, I fell madly and deeply in love.
‘And yes, there’s that heartbreak and those things, but it’s a huge part of my life and I wouldn’t go back and change that,’ she added, according to The Mirror.
‘Because that feeling of love and that excitement and what it gives you, it needed to be in there.