A biography for Alex Brookerhasn’t been written yet.
“Now, as an adult, I do pretty much everything without assistance. However, the one thing I really can't do is my top button.”
“To see more disabled people in films would be incredible.”
“I'm quite prone to frustration behind the wheel, but I find that a happy playlist with lots of songs I know the words to puts me in a positive frame of mind.”
“To go from not being known to being stopped in the street is really odd.”
“My karaoke song is 'Regulate' by Warren G.”
“I genuinely believe the Paralympics will change perceptions of disability in this country, one of the main reasons being that they will take disability to an audience bigger than perhaps ever before.”
“I think that there's more of a push for disabled people to be on telly than ever before. It's definitely the best I've ever known it. But you don't want to rest on your laurels.”
“Lots of disabled people don't want to be magically cured, they just want a fair crack at life.”
“The great thing about football is it's so accessible. It's available for any gender, any disability. There's walking football for pensioners, power-chair football for people with severe disabilities.”
“When I was a kid there weren't a lot of disabled people on television, so I grew up thinking there was no one else out there like me.”
“As I was growing up and I was growing, obviously I'd outgrow a prosthetic leg, and you're seeing the prosthetist several times a year and you form a relationship with them.”
“Obviously I clearly don't shy away from my identity as a disabled person.”
“To think that in 2012, I had a nine or ten-day contract for Channel 4 to be a reporter and I remember being put on 'The Last Leg' for the first time, and I didn't expect to be on it again.”
“I'm a chav.”
“Volunteers at grassroots football helped me a lot when I was younger.”
“A lot of these fad diets promise a lot in a short space of time, and they can't possibly deliver as a sustainable way of living.”
“Certainly at Arsenal they've got great facilities, changing facilities for adults who need those and sensory rooms.”
“There weren't any other disabled people at my secondary school, so it was quite weird to find myself pigeonholing myself as disabled... and I had a real issue with it.”
“There's a big difference between me being an amputee from when I was 13 months old to someone who's lost their leg in an accident. I don't know the pain associated with losing a limb and I don't know the rehab.”
“It doesn't have to feel like tokenism. I remember years ago, I used to watch 'EastEnders,' and every now and again you'd see someone in a wheelchair in the background at the market and you'd go, 'Oh, there you go. There's one of us.'”