{"id":188548,"date":"2025-06-16T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/188548\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:44:09","slug":"alison-hammond-responds-after-sons-love-island-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/188548\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Hammond responds after son&#8217;s Love Island audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 50-year-old presenter who made a name for herself on reality programmes like Big Brother, said she did not want her son taking part in the ITV dating show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This comes after months of rumours that he would be entering the villa this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>  Alison Hammond issues stern warning after son auditions for Love Island<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DK2oak5Mhzx\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"&#10;            background: #fff;&#10;            border: 0;&#10;            border-radius: 3px;&#10;            box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);&#10;            margin: 1px;&#10;            max-width: 540px;&#10;            min-width: 326px;&#10;            padding: 0;&#10;            width: 99.375%;&#10;            width: -webkit-calc(100% - 2px);&#10;            width: calc(100% - 2px);&#10;            \">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n  However, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/alison-hammonds-son-auditions-love-35388361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mirror<\/a>, Alison Hammond warned him that he is &#8220;too young&#8221; to be participating.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwalesargus.co.uk\/news\/national\/uk-today\/25178293.loose-women-see-schedule-change-2026-itv-confirms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loose Women<\/a> panel about the prospect, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwalesargus.co.uk\/news\/national\/uk-today\/25195873.itv-axe-drama-starring-martin-clunes-just-one-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITV<\/a> presenter said &#8220;absolutely not&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwalesargus.co.uk\/news\/national\/uk-today\/24773195.alison-hammond-wont-use-weight-loss-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Morning<\/a> star\u00a0stated: &#8220;He has auditioned for the show, and they wanted him for that show. I advised him to do it later on.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sharing exactly what she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwalesargus.co.uk\/news\/national\/uk-today\/24956838.bbc-rebooting-show-hole-wall-alison-hammond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alison Hammond<\/a> added:\u00a0&#8220;&#8216;If you really need to do it Aiden, do it when you&#8217;re a little bit older,&#8217; because he was only 19 at that time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I just think it&#8217;s too young &#8211; I just think he can do it when he&#8217;s a little bit older.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Aiden Hammond is the only child from Alison&#8217;s relationship with her former fiance\u00a0Noureddine Boufaied.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DD1k0mxNEAj\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"&#10;            background: #fff;&#10;            border: 0;&#10;            border-radius: 3px;&#10;            box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);&#10;            margin: 1px;&#10;            max-width: 540px;&#10;            min-width: 326px;&#10;            padding: 0;&#10;            width: 99.375%;&#10;            width: -webkit-calc(100% - 2px);&#10;            width: calc(100% - 2px);&#10;            \">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  Recommended Reading:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pair split in 2014 but Alison is said to be on good terms with the taxi driver from Manchester.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alison Hammond became famous after appearing in the 2002 series of Big Brother. Despite coming third, the 27-year-old managed to launch a career as a beloved TV personality.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 2020, she was annunced as one of the main presenters for This Morning after making her first appearance 17 years ago.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 50-year-old presenter who made a name for herself on reality programmes like Big Brother, said she did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-188548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114692165643558903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}