Alison Hammond calls Dermot O'Leary her "work husband".
Alison Hammond
The 'This Morning' presenter works alongside her fellow co-host on the show every week - a job she had initially turned down - and she joked it was like an "arranged marriage" when they first started working together as they were unable to have any screen tests together due to COVID.
She said: "I call Dermot my work husband because it was like an arranged marriage. Because of Covid, there were no screen tests. No lunch. Nothing. We literally did a Zoom and we couldn’t even get that right. I was waiting for half an hour and he wasn’t there and he was waiting on a different Zoom! Then we spoke on the phone briefly and it was just, 'OK, I’ll see you on Friday then.'"
Alison and Dermot are very "honest" with one another now, but the 46-year-old television personality joked there are still a few things that bug her about the former 'X Factor' presenter.
She told The Sun on Sunday's Fabulous magazine: "We are so honest with each other now. We tell each other, 'Can you not do that again. I don’t like it.' It’s the little things, nothing major. For example, he steals my lines and he doesn’t keep up to speed with my life on Instagram even though we host a show together. He just wants to be glued to me. I quite like the two-metre rule because I look better at a distance. I normally love the way I look, but I sit next to Dermot and think: 'Bloody hell, I’m massive compared to you.' So I want him to stay over there ... I could put him in my pocket!"
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