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Alison 'I'm not engaged - I'm single!'
New UK
|March 27, 2023
This Morning viewers are shocked to discover that the presenter is no longer in a relationship
Alison Hammond revealed she was single live on air last Friday, just weeks after it was reported she’d got engaged to boyfriend Ben Hawkins.
The 48-year-old This Morning presenter announced her relationship status on the show, as she and co-host Dermot O’Leary, 49, discussed ITV’s new show The Romance Retreat, which has been dubbed “middle-aged Love Island”.
Dermot read out the casting call for the upcoming dating show, and said to Alison, “Hang on a second… have a kid, over 18… the casting call, Alison, says ITV are looking for vibrant single parents from across the UK.”
This story is from the March 27, 2023 edition of New UK.
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