Alesha - 'I'm A Feminist Women Have It Hard!'
NOW|August 28, 2017

The BGT judge opens up to us on motherhood, body image and standing up for women

Christine Smith
Alesha - 'I'm A Feminist Women Have It Hard!'

Britain’s Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon has never been so happy. Living with her partner Azuka Ononye, 36, and their four-year-old daughter Azura, the 38-year-old says she now feels she has the strength to conquer her goals and dreams. But as she reveals today, she definitely hasn’t always been so confident. In an exclusive and endearingly honest interview with Now, she chats openly about how she’s learnt how to view failure as her ‘friend’. Admitting she’s suffered from low self-esteem in the past, Alesha opens up to us about facing up to her body demons, how she’ll make sure her daughter lives a confident life, and why she’s already looking forward to next year’s BGT…

Hi Alesha! Do you still see the Britain’s Got Talent gang now that the series has finished?

We do have a WhatsApp group and we chat on there a lot. I’m seeing Amanda [Holden] in a few weeks and I hung out with Simon [Cowell] recently as I stepped in to do The X Factor, which was fun. I’ve already been sent dates for the new BGT auditions, so I’m definitely back on the show next year. When you look in the diary, it comes around really quickly and it doesn’t feel like we’ve been away that long. But it’s nice to have a break too. We look forward to seeing each other, but it would be too intense if we were together all the time.

When you do the live shows, do you and Amanda ever call each other beforehand to check out what you might be wearing?

In the past we used to give each other a heads-up about a particular colour, but generally our styles are so different that we never clash. We’ve never had to worry about that – it’s cool.

Does Azura have play dates with Eric Cowell?

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