Alison Hammond, 51, made her TV debut as a contestant on Big Brother in 2002. She was snapped up by This Morning as a showbiz reporter, and has co-hosted with Dermot O’Leary since 2021.
Here, RT goes behind the scenes on This Morning and chats to Alison and Dermot about what goes into making the ITV daytime favourite.
Alison: I come down from Birmingham on Thursday and stay in a hotel. I’m an early to bed, early to rise person, so I’ll be in bed by nine, reading my script. My alarm’s set for seven, breakfast is fruit and juice – though the food we eat on the show is basically breakfast – and I get picked up at 7.20.
Dermot: I normally play five-a-side football on Thursday nights, so I’ll read my notes on the Tube. Then I’ll finish up any reading or viewing I need to do, so I’m not usually in bed before midnight. My six-year-old, Kasper, wakes me up at about six and I get a Limobike at 7.45.
Alison: If Dermot and I weren’t talking to each other, I reckon we could fake it.
Alison: More like 700 times…
Alison: I won’t leave until we’ve sorted it out.
Dermot But we have a great relationship. I think I’ve taught Alison to take life a bit more seriously, and she’s taught me to take it a bit less seriously.
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Alison: Dermot was the first person I met when I came out of the Big Brother house. He interviewed me and gave me some lovely advice.
Alison: You said I should go into children’s presenting. He saw something in me. He’s a genius.
Alison: Lady Gaga. Oh sorry, Dermot, you weren’t there for that.
Alison: Dermot’s brilliant at getting them onside.
View oEmbed on the source websiteAlison: People still come up and talk to me about that [chaotic 2017 interview]. But I can’t take all the credit – Ryan Gosling also helped.
Dermot: It was hard, because we were doing a show that, through no fault of our own, was on the cover of newspapers for 50 days on the trot. But in terms of day-to-day stories, I don’t even look at them. Because we’ll finish an item, I’ll look one way and Alison will look the other, and the papers will be like, “Bust-up on This Morning!” It’s all bulls**t.
Alison: You’ve got to be free to say what you want, and give your opinions. If you start editing yourself, you’ll lose the live element that people love.
Dermot: Doing live telly with a great team and a really good friend who I trust. I honestly get out of bed every Friday with a smile on my face.
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