Leeds' Alexei competing to be crowned champion of BBC 2's The Great British Sewing Bee
Meet Leeds' singing manufacturing engineer who is hoping to take BBC Two's news series of The Great British Sewing Bee by storm.
Alexei, 36, is a manufacturing engineer who will be going toe-to-toe with nine other amateur sewers looking to be crowned as champions of series five of the hit BBC show, which starts next week.
"He also enjoys reading, writing and still sings occasionally."
The Great British Sewing Bee airs at 9pm on BBC 2 on Tuesday, February 12.