PAUL Hollywood’s ex-wife Alex revealed she will keep the baker’s name – despite their “horrendous” divorce.
Speaking on Loose Women today, she insisted she wouldn’t revert to her maiden name of Moores for her son Josh Hollywood’s sake.
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The 55-year-old insisted: “I’ve been Hollywood for nearly 20 years and you kind of grow into that name.
“More importantly, yes I’m getting divorced – but I’m not divorcing my son. He’s a Hollywood and I’m his mum, I’m not going to get rid of his name.”
Likening swapping names to the cartoon Mr Benn – who keeps popping through a door and emerging in different guises – she said: “I went into a room and I came out as a Hollywood.
“I’m not going to go back into the room and changing into something else. I am Alex Hollywood.
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“I write as Alex Hollywood and I am Josh Hollywood’s mum and that’s the person I am now, that’s the person I’ve grown into and that’s the person I’m going to stay.
“People can say what they want but I know what’s right for me and I know what’s right for my son.”
Paul, who moved on with a short-lived romance with Summer Monteys-Fullam, refused to blame him for the marriage breaking down.
She said:”It’s been a difficult couple of years, it has been tough but anyone going through divorce is going to understand that.
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“It’s horrendous, it’s horrible. It’s a hard, sad thing to go through and you have to go through the whole thing from start to finish but you do get through it.”
The cookery writer and Great British Bake-Off judge Paul split in 2017 and were granted a divorce this summer.
In 2013 he dated American Baking Competition co-star Marcela Valladolid, saying later: “I made the biggest mistake of my life and I regret it.”
Years later he struck up a romance with Summer when he arranged a birthday party for Alexandra at the bar where she worked.
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Asked today if Summer was to blame, Alex replied: “Divorce is about the two people involved in that marriage, nothing else is important.
“At the end of the day, yes divorce is horrible, if there is adultery, infidelity, then that makes it doubly worse I think, it hurts. But again it is something you can get through.”
