| Alex Polizzi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alessandra Maria-Luigia O Polizzi Di Sorrentino [1] 28 August 1971 (age 40)[2] England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Hotelier Businesswoman Television presenter |
| Years active | since 2008 |
| Employer | Channel 5 |
| Known for | Presenting The Hotel Inspector |
| Spouse | Marcus Miller |
| Children | Olga Miller (Daughter) |
| Parents | Count Alessandro Polizzi (father) Hon. Olga Polizzi (mother; née Forte) |
Alessandra Maria-Luigia O Polizzi Di Sorrentino (born 28 August 1971) is a British hotelier, and the presenter of the British TV series The Hotel Inspector[3] on Channel 5, taking over from Ruth Watson.
Polizzi comes from a long line of hoteliers, her grandfather being Lord Forte. Her mother, the hotel designer Hon. Olga Polizzi, CBE, is Lord Forte's daughter and the sister of Sir Rocco Forte. Her father was Count Alessandro Polizzi, an Italian marquess, who died in a car accident in 1980.[4]
She read English at Oxford, trained at the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong, and worked for Marco Pierre White before working in the family business The Rocco Forte Collection in Cardiff, Rome and St Petersburg.
Falling in love with a baker, she started her own wholesale bakery, supplying bread to Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Fortnum & Mason.[5]
She manages the Hotel Endsleigh in Milton Abbot, near Tavistock in Devon, which is owned by her mother.[6]
Alex and her husband Marcus Miller have a daughter called Olga.
In 2011 it was announced that Polizzi will be fronting a new BBC venture similar to that of Channel 5's 'The Hotel Inspector'. The program is very similar though every day businesses fortunes will be turned around by Polizzi, not just that of hotels[7].