Alison Hammond's TV Triumph: From Salon to Strictly

0:00On April 4th, Allison Hammond's gearing up for her new sentimental TV show, Year Song on Channel 4 next weekend, and she's opening up about a rough. Patch early in her career. She burst onto this morning back in January 2003 with that hilarious mattress test, but after a few years, the gigs dried up. They even swapped her out for Peter Andre on junkets, and she figured her TV days were done. Taking it in stride, Allison landed a receptionist gig at a hair salon, even doing some blow-drys on the side, while her mom covered the mortgage too. Keep her house. But that low didn't last. By 2010, she was crushing it on Emma Celebrity, then hit Celebrity MasterChef, and strictly come dancing. On Strictly, Daughter said she couldn't dance at 25 Stone, but she partnered with Alja Cordgenek and made 10th place, loving every second, of proving them wrong. Folks speculated she might host the show now that test daily in Claudia Winkleman's out, and Allison jokes it's perfect for her, though no offer yet. These days,

1:01she's everywhere hosting this morning Fridays with Thermital Leary since 2020, boosting viewership by 44%. Plus, Bake Off, for the Love of Dogs, and her own BBC Interview Series. Pulling in 600,000 pounds a year from ITV alone, she shrugs off haters who call her personality too much. With all this momentum, Allison's salon days are ancient history, and she's just getting started on owning the screen her way.