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Tina Campbell

Alison Hammond raises question about relationship status with cryptic post about 'wrong person'

Alison Hammond has shared a cryptic message suggesting all might not be well in her love life.

The This Morning presenter, 49, took to her Instagram Stories on Wednesday night to repost a meme about falling in love with the wrong person.

The Birmingham-born star didn't add any comment as she shared the post with her 1.5million followers.

Her last public relationship with her “hunky” gardener Ben Hawkins ended last year.

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Romance blossomed after Hammond hired the landscape gardener to tend to her Midlands property back in 2021.

In June 2022, her This Morning co-host Dermot O’Leary let the cat out of the bag that she was dating by describing her as a “taken women” while filming the daytime TV show together.

Opening up about her relationship in November, Hammond said: "He loves me to bits. He absolutely worships me and massages my feet every single day."

Despite whispers that marriage could be on the cards, by March 2023 there were reports that it was all over.

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Hammond was previously engaged to cab driver Noureddine Boufaied, the father of her son Aiden, 19, but claimed she “wasn't ready for marriage at the time.”

Speaking to Gyles Brandreth on his podcast Rosebud in August, Hammond said that she is “finally ready to settle down” after years of “getting cold feet” in past relationships. 

That said, she is perfectly fine being single and “loves her own company”.

She said: “I think that’s why I struggle in relationships, because I don’t want somebody around me all the time. I absolutely love being on my own. I’m OK with it. I’ve never felt lonely.

“I think as soon as I hear the word marriage I get cold feet. I think I'm just one of those people.”

She continued: “I always - not think there's something better - but I always get a bit nervous to know that is it.

“I just feel like I'm tied down and I don't like it, when really and truly, I'm getting to that age now where I think ‘Alison, let go - it's OK to settle down.’”

The Standard has contacted a representative for Alison Hammond for comment.

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