# Alex Winters

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{{Short description|Welsh television presenter (born 1977)}}
{{distinguish|text=the American-British actor [Alex Winter](/source/Alex_Winter)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Alex Winters 
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| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1977|1|10}}
| birth_place = [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff), Wales
| other_names = 
|known_for    = Presenting [CBeebies](/source/CBeebies) (2009–2016)  
| occupation  = Television presenter
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}}

'''Alex Winters''' (born 10 January 1977, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh children's television presenter and actor.

Winters studied Drama and Theatre Studies with Psychology in [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool) before he worked on a range of theatre projects and as a supporting artist in the locally filmed programmes ''[Torchwood](/source/Torchwood)'' and ''[Doctor Who](/source/Doctor_Who)''.<ref name="pr">{{cite web
|url        = https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/20/cbeebies.shtml
|title      = CBeebies names its two new presenters
|publisher  = BBC
|date       = 20 January 2009
|access-date = 24 February 2009
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090129130350/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/20/cbeebies.shtml| archive-date= 29 January 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

Winters was named as one of two new continuity presenters for ''Discover and Do'' and ''The Bedtime Hour'' on the [BBC](/source/BBC) children's channel [CBeebies](/source/CBeebies), alongside [Cerrie Burnell](/source/Cerrie_Burnell).<ref name="BBC PR">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/20/cbeebies.shtml "CBeebies names its two new presenters"], [BBC](/source/BBC) Press Office, 20 January 2009</ref> His first presentation links were broadcast on 26 January 2009. Winters left presenting [CBeebies](/source/CBeebies) in 2016.

Winters was one of eight celebrities chosen to participate in an intense week learning Welsh in an eco-friendly chic campsite in [Pembrokeshire](/source/Pembrokeshire), in the series ''[cariad@iaith:love4language](/source/cariad%40iaith%3Alove4language)'' shown on S4C in May 2012.

After leaving [CBeebies](/source/CBeebies), Winters went on to found Gung-Ho!, an inflatable obstacle race company.
<ref name="gh">{{cite web
|url        = https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/cbeebies-host-alex-winters-tries-11364240
|title      = CBeebies host Alex Winters tries out Gung-Ho! Cardiff before it opens this weekend
|publisher  = [Wales Online](/source/Wales_Online)
|date       = 20 May 2016
|accessdate = 21 February 2018}}</ref>

In 2016, Alex was interviewed by [Mormon Stories Podcast](/source/Mormon_Stories_Podcast) about his upbringing and his journey away from [Mormonism](/source/Mormonism).<ref name="ms">{{cite web
|url        = http://www.mormonstories.org/alex-winters/
|title      = 669-670: How U.K./BBC TV Star Alex Winters (CBeebies) Lost his Mormon Faith
|publisher  = [Mormon Stories Podcast](/source/Mormon_Stories_Podcast)
|date       = 10 November 2016
|accessdate = 10 November 2016}}</ref>

In 2021, he was the floor manager of Series 5 of [CBeebies](/source/CBeebies) programme [Justin's House](/source/Justin's_House).

In 2022, he starting working in international sport presentation.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111027213545/http://www.cassiusmanagement.com/media-entertainment/Alex-Winters/ Alex Winters] - Cassius Management

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