Alison Hammond forced to pull out of This Morning hours before going live
Alison Hammond has been forced to pull out of This Morning just hours before she was set to go live on air this morning.
The former Big Brother star usually presents the show on Friday with Dermot O'Leary - but took to Instagram this morning to reveal she has to pull out due to bad hayfever. Lisa Snowdon will be stepping in and joining Dermot live at 10.
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'I had my shoulder replacement 18 months ago, and two-and-a-half years ago, when I saw the surgeon, he said, "I'm going to totally replace your shoulder, I'll see you in a year." 'I thought, "I need to get my life back on track. I need to stop smoking, stop drinking, get eating under control and stop lying in bed feeling sorry for myself". 'So I started the Couch to 5k, took about 80 per cent of the sugar out of my life and started to think about what I was eating, which I had never done before.' Five years ago, the presenter moved permanently into her Cornish holiday home before renovating it 'bit by bit'. A Cornish Legacy, which is Fern's 11th novel, took the star two years to write – twice longer than normal. Fern has long enjoyed storytelling, releasing her first novel New Beginnings 2011, two years after leaving This Morning. 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