Friday’s edition of the ITV show began at 10:00 BST with Hammond and her regular co-host O’Leary at the helm, before she left at 11:30 during a segment about pets.<\/p>\n
O’Leary, 53, addressed her absence when the show returned from a break, saying: “Welcome back to This Morning, Alison is feeling a little unwell, so she’s just had to duck out. Hopefully she’ll be back.”<\/p>\n
He later updated viewers that she would, in fact, not be returning, “so I’ll be here for the rest of the show”.<\/p>\n
Hammond initially rose to fame as contestant on Channel 4 reality show Big Brother before appearing on I’m A Celebrity and Strictly Come Dancing.<\/p>\n
She became a co-host in This Morning in 2021, and was part of the team that won a National Television Award for best daytime programme the following year.<\/p>\n
She joined Bake Off in 2023 and took over from the late Paul O’Grady on For the Love of Dogs in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday’s edition of the ITV show began at 10:00 BST with Hammond and her regular co-host O’Leary at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}