Alison Hammond was rendered speechless after receiving an abusive message online.
The This Morning presenter, 50, is beloved for her bubbly personality, infectious laugh, and always keeping it real on daytime telly.
But while the nation has happily bestowed her with British icon status – which has been truly earned – it appears not everyone agrees.
Taking to X last week, one critic simply had to let Alison know what they thought of her, much to everyone’s shock.
Sadly, the post from 77-year-old @PETER46760847 appeared to make its way to Alison’s feed several days later, as she decided to respond last night.
His original message read: ‘Any time we see you are on TV we switch channels as you turn our stomachs being so fat and repulsive with a huge mouth.’
Understandably astounded by the comment, all Alison could write back was: ‘Wow !’
It didn’t take long for Alison’s 400,000+ followers to leap to her defence, branding the remarks ‘extremely mean and rude’.
‘I’d just laugh at them babe, you’re beautiful and they obviously are ugly on the inside’, wrote @darloviper.
‘What a horrible nasty person. How he can say that about you is beyond me, you never fail to make me smile even when I’m feeling low so thank you and keep being you xxx’, added @DonnaRa01238683.
@icon1_will implored her: ‘keep on flooding his TV, WE LOVE YOU’.
‘Listen Ali….Forget about those haters!!! Nothing better to do’, agreed @jacquijdesigns.
Others questioned why the individual was even tweeting Alison in the first place, given that his original tweet was replying to her pinned video, posted in 2021.
The Big Brother star is, unfortunately, no stranger to calling out trolls.
Last year, she clapped back at a derogatory message following her appearance on Channel 4’s Celebrity Bake Off.
The viewer tagged Alison and wrote: ‘I imagine@AlisonHammond is a real nasty piece of work now, started to beleive her own hype [sic]’.
Alison later replied with: ‘Why is that I’ll be having a lovely day and then someone who doesn’t know from Adam writes such nasty message.
‘Don’t @ me keep Your nasty comment to yourself #bekind always.’
When Alison became a This Morning regular alongside Dermot O’Leary in 2020, it’s believed she had duty of care meetings with ITV bosses after being bombarded with hate online.
Co-presenter Josie Gibson showed support for her after witnessing the barrage of abuse, saying: ‘I can’t believe some sad little sadsacks can be so vile to one of the most talented, infectious, caring, insanely hard-working, and one of the most beautiful souls on the planet.’
She’s also been forced to address backlash to her For the Love of Dogs signing, having taken over presenting duties of the much-loved ITV dog show following Paul O’Grady’s death.
Alison was admittedly ‘surprised’ by the criticism, telling Heat magazine: ‘I could understand in the sense that Paul was so loved, but people were saying, “How can she do it when she doesn’t have a dog? How can she love dogs when she doesn’t have one?”‘
‘It’s like saying, “How can you love children when you haven’t got kids?” It’s such a flawed argument for me, and all I would say is, if you don’t want to watch it, don’t watch it.’
Trolling has likely only been made more upsetting for Alison over the years when her appearance has been attacked.
Speaking on Lorraine Kelly and daughter Rosie’s What If? podcast in 2022, she said of weight-shaming trolling: ‘Oh my gosh, like every day. Literally, I’m sure there’s a tweet or a message. I think I saw a message yesterday from someone, something along the lines of, “[You] need to lose 40 stone,” I’m thinking, “I’m not even 40 stone!”‘
Alison added: ‘That would mean I’d be nothing. I’d be dead. Stupid woman. She said that, and I get it all the time, and I know I’m overweight; everyone can see I’m overweight; it’s not a surprise to know I’m overweight.’
She declared that she likes ‘taking up a little bit of space’ and is ‘OK with it’ as she isn’t ‘hurting anyone.’
Over the past year, Alison has been working with a personal trainer after having an ‘adult’ realisation about her health and lifestyle, opting for dietary changes rather than weight loss medication.
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