ALEX'S PAIN
Emotional Good Morning Britain star Alex Beresford reveals he was asked ‘what shade of cocoa’ his unborn child would be
GOOD Morning Britain weatherman Alex Beresford got emotional as he revealed the moment he was asked "what shade of cocoa" his unborn child would be.
The mixed race presenter, 40, expressed his heartbreaking experience with racism in a previous workplace.
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His confession followed a fiery clash over Meghan Markle's interview with Oprah Winfrey which saw host Piers Morgan walk out of the Good Morning Britain studio.
After he returned to continue the strained conversation with Piers, Alex admitted he resonated with Meghan after she revealed there were alleged "concerns" from the Royal Family about her son Archie's skin colour.
"I've walked into institutions as the only person of colour and experienced covert and overt racism in so many occasions," said Alex.
"Why the Meghan interview really resonates with me is because an ex-work colleague - not off this show - asked me if I was worried the shade of cocoa my son was going to come out.
"So I fully understand the hurt that is behind all of that.
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"When you're mixed race what you find, in my personal experience, is that when you're a lighter shade of black, people gain confidence and think they can say things to do that they wouldn't say to a black person."
Piers replied: "I completely respect that. It was my idea to have you on to talk about this."
Alex added: "Thank you so much for having me on the programme I really appreciate it.
"I just want you to be aware of the power of your words. I'm not saying you're a racist, but I honestly feel because of your previous relationship with Meghan Markle..."
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Defending his standpoint, Piers insisted: "I didn't have a relationship with Meghan Markle.
"I knew her briefly. All that did was inform me that she's a bit of a cut and run. All her family, her father, her ex-husband, her ex-friends, they have all been cut out of her life.
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"It's an interesting observation that I have."
He added: It doesn't matter what I think of her. It doesn't matter if believe her not, what matters is the damage she is accused of doing to the Royal Family."
Alex shares his eight-year-old son Cruz with his estranged wife Natalia who he split with in 2019.
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He moved out of the family home two weeks before the first lockdown.
Alex said he found it hard to cope with the reality of being single at 40 and how lockdown made it impossible to date.
On the Britain Get Talking podcast he said last year: "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.
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"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.
"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."
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