19 January, 2023
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The 38-year-old football pundit shared that on work trips, the BBC insists that staff use official, pre-booked vehicles.
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However, she was out for drinks with a friend in the evening and opted to take an Uber to her hotel with a male driver who turned her moments into a 15-minute drive.
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She says the only way she escaped was to convince the "sicco" that he was a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin - whom he had met earlier that morning.
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The 38-year-old recounts the horror in her memoir, titled How (Not) to Be Strong.
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In his book, Alex describes how the BBC usually insists that staff use official, pre-booked cars.
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But, after going out for drinks with a friend, she decided to take an Uber for a 15-minute ride to the hotel she was staying at.
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the driver, who was "a bald guy, stocky, with a smile on his face," turned to her.
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Alex wrote in her book: “He looked at me and said – in English – ‘Tell them they will never see you again.’
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