New series next week on the Beeb of Who Do You Think You Are?

[jaywit]

Alex Scott didn't have the same wow factor but I think her history was so complicated they didn't do it justice.

 Apart from everything we saw there was a fleeting mention that her maternal grandfather came from Belfast, nothing else about that and I have to admit that the Russian Pogroms and Slave Owners have been covered before never in the same programme.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I think we would be lucky to see anything else as unusual as the first two episodes. I have no idea who Alex Scott is, but I enjoyed the story - my daughter commented that she is a living embodiment of the East End melting pot, and proud of her roots there.

[KGarrad]

  I think we would be lucky to see anything else as unusual as the first two episodes. I have no idea who Alex Scott is, but I enjoyed the story - my daughter commented that she is a living embodiment of the East End melting pot, and proud of her roots there.

Former footballer who played 140 times for England, a pundit on BBC and Sky (Match Of The Day etc) and now presenter of Football Focus (BBC Saturday lunchtimes).
Inducted to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2019.

[Martin Briscoe]

  I think we would be lucky to see anything else as unusual as the first two episodes. I have no idea who Alex Scott is, but I enjoyed the story - my daughter commented that she is a living embodiment of the East End melting pot, and proud of her roots there.

Always surprised at the lack of knowledge about their family history but I was as bad until I started researching my own!

As often happens when the subject of the programme is black or mixed race, they find that some of their ancestors owned slaves.  The way that one left his children and their mothers allowances and use of a house shows the relationships were a lot more complex than the way they are sometimes portrayed.

I was intrigued that one of the ancestors had my surname, nothing to suggest related in any way though.

MB

[Martin Briscoe]

Former footballer who played 140 times for England, a pundit on BBC and Sky (Match Of The Day etc) and now presenter of Football Focus (BBC Saturday lunchtimes).
Inducted to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2019.

She has become quite a successful TV presenter and, unusually for a footballer, can talk without it being a string of football clichés!

[Mowsehowse]

ToH, I am surprised you didn't know of Alex Scott.
She certainly "is a living embodiment of the East End melting pot, and proud of her roots there." 
I felt she came across as a really pleasant individual, though no doubt that covers a determined streak.
She was one of the BBC anchors for the Olympics coverage and is an extremely attractive lass I think.
The first two WDYTYA programmes were an enormously difficult act to follow, and of course the line up for the series must be with an eye to diversity.  Alex ticked several boxes there.  She is probably an important role model for a lot of young people.

[ReadyDale]

She has become quite a successful TV presenter and, unusually for a footballer, can talk without it being a string of football clichés!

Yes, she has that "in her locker" 

[Maid of Kent]

My Lot are just ag labs lol. Nothing exciting.

[Keith Sherwood]

I thought Alex Scott was perfectly delightful throughout.  I loved the short film of her scoring a goal at the age of 8 (was it?) on the soccer field amongst other girls who seemed rather older.
And the gentle Jamaican women genealogists really took her under their wings as they guided her through her ancestors there. ..
Keith