Background
Alex Schulman is the son of television producer and journalist Allan Schulman and the television host Lisette Schulman (née Stolpe). He is also a maternal grandson of the author Sven Stolpe.
Alex Schulman is the son of television producer and journalist Allan Schulman and the television host Lisette Schulman (née Stolpe). He is also a maternal grandson of the author Sven Stolpe.
He has two brothers: Carl Johan (Calle) and Niklas Schulman. From 1999 to 2000, Schulman worked for the celebrity magazine Se & Hör. He is the former editor-in-chief of the magazine Stureplan but left this position in April 2007.
He now writes at the entertainment page in Aftonbladet and he is also a columnist for the Aftonbladet-affiliated free newspaper Punkt se.
He also participates regularly in the radio show Äntligen morgon medical Adam & Gry on Mix Megapol, and as sidekick to Lennart Ekdal on the debate show Kvällsöppet on TV4. From 2006 to 2007, he wrote the personal blog Att vara Alex Schulman ("Being Alex Schulman"), which was later hosted on Aftonbladet"s website and grew in 2007 to became the most widely read blog in Sweden by far with around 285,000 readers per week.
On 1 October 2007 he announced the closure of the blog, saying that the "blog has turned into a monster and I don"t have the energy to take care of it anymore". On 18 March 2008 their blog was closed down by the newspaper after they had made some harsh comments about a Swedish film reviewer.
They continue to blog at their own website at Schulmangruppen.
The couple were never legally married in Sweden and when they broke up Katrin Zytomierska took her maiden name back. Alex Schulman confirmed the break-up on his blog dated 28 September 2008. That was Schulman"s second marriage, the first one was a spontaneous marriage in Las Vegas.
In 2010 Schulman married Swedish television personality Amanda Schulman (née Widell) and together they have two children, Charlie och Frances.
In 2012 Schulman started the Alex & Sigges podcast together with the author Sigge Eklund.