From crashing through a garden table in ‘Big Brother 3’ to giving Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling the giggles, Alison Hammond is the born show-off that the nation fell for. As the presenter joins ‘The Great British Bake Off’ line-up, Katie Rosseinsky looks at her unique appeal
Should you ever need an instant serotonin boost, simply type “Alison Hammond” and “Harrison Ford” into YouTube. The 2017 interview, originally broadcast on ITV’s daytime staple This Morning before the release of Blade Runner 2049, is four minutes and 12 seconds of pure unadulterated silliness. “Bleak, dystopian, an absolute nightmare to be honest with you – and that’s just my interviewing technique,” Hammond jokes in her opening gambit, leaving the notoriously grumpy Ford and his co-star Ryan Gosling in hysterics. The presenter soon has the pair singing and knocking back whiskey shots, at one point prompting Gosling to walk off camera in faux outrage. It couldn’t be further from the usual formulaic back and forth between media-trained A-lister and deferential interviewer.
From crashing through a garden table in ‘Big Brother 3’ to giving Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling the giggles, Alison Hammond is the born show-off that the nation fell for. As the presenter joins ‘The Great British Bake Off’ line-up, Katie Rosseinsky looks at her unique appeal