- Alex Polizzi
Alexandra Polizzi (born 1972) is an hotelier and the presenter of the 4th series of Five's the "
Hotel Inspector ", taking over fromRuth Watson .Polizzi comes from a long line of hoteliers, her grandfather being Lord Forte. Her mother, the hotel designer Olga Polizzi, 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 racing-car accident in 1980. [http://www.tvlives.com/view.php?x=2&id=5007]Polizzi read English at Oxford, trained at the Mandarin Oriental in
Hong Kong , and worked forMarco Pierre White before working in the family business at Rocco Forte hotels inCardiff ,Rome andSt Petersburg . Falling in love with abaker , she started her own wholesale bakery, supplying bread toSelfridges ,Harvey Nichols andFortnum & Mason . [http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2005/oct/30/devon.hotels.observerescape?page=2]Polizzi owns the [http://www.hotelendsleigh.com Hotel Endsleigh] in
Milton Abbot , near Tavistock inDevon . She is married with a daughter.Now married to Marcus Miller.
External links
* [http://www.hotelendsleigh.com Hotel Endsleigh]
* [http://www.tvlives.com/view.php?x=2&id=5007 Polizzi's biography on Tvlives.com]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2005/oct/30/devon.hotels.observerescape?page=2 Polizzi inThe Guardian ]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/24/channelfive.television Polizzi and the Hotel Inspector]
* [http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article4255343.ece Polizzi onThe Times online]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2918924/ Polizzi on theInternet Movie Database ]
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