Bake off creators launch brand new show fronted by Alison Hammond as star bags 3rd Channel 4 programme
SHE'S already on nearly every channel, busy making programmes about baking, travel, dogs and hobnobbing with celebrities – and now Alison Hammond has bagged yet another show.
The This Morning host will this summer front new Channel 4 project Your Song, where she tours Britain giving ordinary members of the public the chance to perform a track which has special meaning to them.
If it has a hint of The Piano about it that's because it's made by the same production company, Love Productions, who make the Great British Bake Off . . . co-hosted by Alison.
A TV insider said: 'Alison was the natural choice to present this, with her warm personality and ability to catch unguarded moments with the singers, together with chatting to the crowds.
'Your Song will feature people who love singing — they may have been singing for a long time but not necessarily in public or on a stage. You can expect some unexpected performances.'
Alison said: 'I love the power that music, and singing your heart out has. It can change your mood — put a smile on your face, make you sad, make you reminisce. So I'm excited about this new show, about real people telling us their stories through song. Let's hit the road.'
The six-part series will see people with special connections to a songs step up on stage and share their story — whether it's all about a track that helped them through heartbreak, became their anthem of triumph or reminds them who they are.
But Alison will have to squeeze her new job into her schedule.
As well as appearing soon on Channel 4's Bake Off and Celebrity Gogglebox, for the BBC she's just made travel series Florida Unpacked and interview show Alison Hammond's Big Weekend for the BBC.
Plus, on ITV, she has This Morning and For The Love Of Dogs.
Alison Hammond's Return to For The Love Of Dogs
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It's bubbles 'n' strife time
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RAISE a glass of bubbly to the cast of the new season of Real Housewives.
I recently revealed the six women being lined up for the series, to be set in London and premiere later this year on Hayu, and the billing has now been set in stone.
It will feature Bake Off: The Professionals star Nessie Welschinger, model turned skincare entrepreneur Amanda Cronin, influencer Juliet Angus, fashion label owner Karen Loderick-Peace, beauty queen turned beauty planner Juliet Mayhew and socialite Panthea Parker.
It will follow the women's lavish lives, from hosting grand dinners to rebuilding relation-ships over bottles of champagne.
A show synopsis teased: 'With big personalities, and no shortage of designer drama, the path to connection is never simple – but always captivating.'
Heel to pay for angela
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ANGELA SCANLON says she would never again go on Strictly Come Dancing because of the terrible blisters from training and performing in show shoes.
The Irish TV presenter, who in 2023 made the quarter-finals of the BBC One show with pro dancer Carlos Gu, is a mum of two and reckons would sooner endure childbirth again.
She revealed on her Get A Grip podcast alongside Vicky Pattison: 'I've had two children without pain relief, and would do that ten times over in a day than have raw, bleeding blisters.
"You have to put the goddamn shoes on and do a Viennese waltz – my heels have never had so much action.
'You put a plaster on and, because you're sweating like a donkey, it falls off. You put socks on with your ball-room shoe and you're still rub-a-dubbing. You're raw.'
Oh what wizard fun, Paul
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GONE FISHING star Paul Whitehouse says the new TV adaptation of the Harry Potter books is moving at a lick – as he prepares to play Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch.
He said of the HBO series, due next year: 'It's exciting, I've already been in for a make-up and costume-fitting last week, so the ball is rolling.'
Even more exciting is that his part – played in the films by David Bradley – is unlikely to be edited out post-filming like what happened to a cameo he shot for one of the Potter movies.
Speaking on Irish Radio Station RTE Radio 1, Paul said of that let-down: 'The director asked if I wanted to play the role and I said I'd do it if I could bring my girls to the set. They came along and told friends I was going to be in the new Harry Potter.
'Then I had to break the news that they had cut me out and stuck me in a portrait. So I'm back for revenge.'
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