Alex Beresford has won himself legions of new fans thanks to the way he held Piers Morgan to account on Good Morning Britain over his comments about Meghan Markle.
The weatherman, 40, called Piers "diabolical" as he stormed out when he was criticised for saying he didn't believe Meghan was suicidal.
As his popularity on GMB has soared over the years, Alex has dealt with a number of family tragedies away from the TV cameras.
Within the space of just 18 months, Alex split from his wife, his cousin was stabbed to death and his step-grandmother died alone in a care home.
In March 2019, Alex's cousin, Nathaniel Armstrong, was murdered in Fulham, London.
After Nathaniel was stabbed to death, Alex presented a documentary about knife crime and called for more to be done.
He said: "I mean words can't describe what it's like to lose one of your cousins to knife crime, and unfortunately Nathaniel isn't the only person I know who has lost their life to knife crime.
"It cuts you so deep inside, literally.
"Not a week goes by where I walk the streets of Britain where someone doesn't come up to me and say, 'I'm so sorry about what happened to your cousin, and I'm so glad you spoke out that day on Good Morning Britain'."
He later said on GMB: "Prison doesn't work though. It does not work.
"I've grown up in some of these communities you guys are talking about. Prison is not a deterrent. Some of these boys don't fear prison.
"If you don't change the environment you wont change anything and that's the key thing."
Then Alex and his wife Natalia split at the end of 2019.
They decided to remain living together, but Natalia and their son Cruz, eight, moved out two weeks before the first lockdown was introduced.
Alex admitted he felt very lonely when he lived on his own during this time.
He also couldn't see his son as his ex-wife had developed coronavirus symptoms and held to self-isolate for 14 days, though she tested negative.
Speaking on the Get Britain Talking podcast, Alex said: "It's been a massive learning curve, I didn't think at the age of 20 that when I was approaching 40, I would be in this situation.
"The age of 40, you'll be married, you'll be a grown up, you'll have a kid or two, your life is going to be set. I'm not old, I don't feel old, it's a bit daunting.
"But we've been in lockdown, so even if I wanted to go on a date, I couldn't go on a date.
"I don't want to grow old on my own, life is for sharing and it'd be great to meet someone in the future but they have to be right for me, right for Cruz."
Speaking about being separated from Cruz, Alex went on: "Natalia developed symptoms, she had a cough. It turned out not to be COVID-19, they had to self isolate for 14 days - so I went from living in a house full of people to living on my own in lockdown.
"I watched Boris Johnson's lockdown message sitting on my sofa feeling really lonely. And I couldn't see Cruz for two weeks."
He continued: "I've realised how strong I am, but I am only strong because of the people I have behind me.
"As we kind of moved into the summer, myself and Natalia decided we were going to part ways, which, you know me. I'm not a quitter, and I hate quitting things.
"We tried to work through things, but at some point you realise the best thing to do for everybody is walk away, but walking away is never easy."
He added: "We were in the same house up until the beginning of this year, knowing that we were parting ways, it takes a while to figure things out. One thing I didn't want to do is rush things.
"By being in that house, knowing we weren't together, we started to get on better - it removed a lot of the stress and expectation that a relationship can bring.
"It was so much to manage, we are only human and have feelings and emotions.
"The important thing is to open up and talk to someone about what you're going through."
Then in April last year, Alex's step-grandmother Ivy Stewart died alone in a care home during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
He said: "As a family it meant we missed her last Mother's Day, her 77th birthday and her last day.
"She comes from a massive family. In other circumstances we would have all gathered there on mass and she wouldn’t have been alone.
"Unfortunately, like many people who are passing away in these circumstances, they’re passing away alone.
"My mum, step dad, aunt and uncle are fairly vulnerable. They're staying indoors until June, which obviously makes the situation even worse.
"It's not been great. My heart goes out to family and everyone else in this situation."
On Tuesday, Alex got into a heated debate with Piers Morgan over his comments about Meghan Markle.
Piers had said he didn't believe Meghan's comments about the Royal Family, and even refuted her admission that she had struggled with suicidal thoughts.
Alex told him: "I understand that you don't like Meghan Markle, you've made it so clear a number of times on this programme..."
"And I understand you've got a personal relationship with Meghan Markle or had one and she cut you off.
"She's entitled to cut you off if she wants to. Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? I don't think she has but yet you continue to trash her..."
Piers stood up and said: "OK, I'm done with this" and walked off set, saying: "Sorry, no... sorry, can't do this..."
