{"id":548592,"date":"2026-07-14T04:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/548592\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:11:28","slug":"popular-this-morning-host-hits-back-at-toyboy-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/548592\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular &#8216;This Morning&#8217; host hits back at &#8216;toyboy&#8217; remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ITV This Morning star Alison Hammond has hit back at &#8216;toyboy&#8217; accusations after she revealed a 22-year-age gap with her boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 51-year-old has been <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/galleries\/alison-hammond-takes-major-step-with-boyfriend-22-years-her-junior\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dating <\/a>Russian model and massage therapist David Puttman, 28, since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, in a new interview, Alison insisted marriage isn&#8217;t on the cards but gushed that the loved-up pair &#8216;choose each other every day&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alison-Hammond-4.jpg\" alt=\"Alison Hammond and David Putman. Pic: Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-1823555\"  \/>Alison Hammond and David Putman. Pic: Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I&#8217;ve got a lovely man in my life,&#8217; she said. &#8216;It&#8217;s just easy. I think that&#8217;s when you know you&#8217;ve got something special. He just sees me for who I am. We choose each other, every day.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about their 22-year age gap, Alison added:\u00a0&#8216;It&#8217;s nothing to do with anyone else. Yeah, people are going to talk. People do. But that&#8217;s their business, not mine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I don&#8217;t think [there will be a wedding]. We don&#8217;t need to! We&#8217;re both cool,&#8217; she told\u00a0The Mirror.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The couple, who met when Alison booked David for a massage session, have largely kept their relationship out of the spotlight, though the <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2025\/11\/12\/entertainment\/movies-tv\/this-morning-dermot-oleary-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Morning<\/a> presenter has occasionally shed light on their connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Alison-Hammond-2.jpg\" alt=\"David Putman and Alison Hammond\" class=\"wp-image-2078219\"  \/>David Putman and Alison Hammond. Pic: Alison Hammond\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018He just has the most beautiful energy and everyone feels it when they\u2019re in his presence,\u2019 she previously gushed. \u2018I am so grateful that he chooses to spend his life with me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The star did previously admit she\u2019d be open to marrying her younger partner one day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018We live together, and we\u2019re happy the way it is. I don\u2019t need a ring to show my love to somebody. What I will say is, if he asked me tomorrow to marry him, it wouldn\u2019t be a \u201cno\u201d. That\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say to you,\u2019 Alison confessed back in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV This Morning star Alison Hammond has hit back at &#8216;toyboy&#8217; accusations after she revealed a 22-year-age gap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-548592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}