Alessandra Maria-Luigia O Polizzi Di Sorrentino (born 28 August 1971) is a British hotelier, and the presenter of the British TV series The Hotel Inspector[3] on Channel 5, taking over from Ruth Watson. Polizzi comes from a long line of hoteliers, her grandfather being Lord Forte. Her mother, the hotel designer Hon. Olga Polizzi, CBE, 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 car accident in 1980.[4] She read English at Oxford, trained at the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong, and worked for Marco Pierre White before working in the family business The Rocco Forte Collection in Cardiff, Rome and St Petersburg. Falling in love with a baker, she started her own wholesale bakery, supplying bread to Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Fortnum & Mason.[5] Alex and her husband Marcus Miller have a daughter called Olga. She manages the Hotel Endsleigh in Milton Abbot, near Tavistock in Devon, which is owned by her mother.[6] Polizzi fronts the BBC2 series Alex Polizzi: The Fixer,[7] which focuses on Polizzi turning around family businesses, not just hotels.[8] The series comprises six episodes; the first aired on 31 January 2012.
