Alison Hammond couldn’t resist making a cheeky quip about Joel Dommett’s sex tape (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Alison Hammond showered her ITV co-star Joel Dommett with unexpected support after a catfish leaked his sex tape.
The comedian, 38, said in 2013 that a video of him engaging in a sex act on Skype many years ago had made its way onto the internet by ‘somebody pretending to be someone else.’
Joel has now revealed that Alison, 49, was the ‘only person’ who contacted him after the video was made public and messaged him saying: ‘Seen it, you’re amazing!’
The Masked Singer presenter regaled Alison’s response on an episode of Rob Beckett’s Smart TV when Rob, 38, brought up the topic of celebrity sex tapes, including Paris Hilton’.
Rob said: ‘Of course, Paris became a household name when her sex tape was leaked.’
Turning to his co-stars, he asked: ‘What do you think about that as a route to fame?’
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Laughing, Joel replied: ‘Don’t look at me Rob!’
‘I can’t look at you in the eye after seeing that,’ Rob said, alluding to Joel’s ‘sex tape.’
‘I don’t think enough people know about that actually.’
Explaining the wild incident, Joel recalled: ‘I got catfished. And there’s videos online of me doing things. I’ve talked about it a lot since.
Joel’s sex tape was leaked online by a catfish (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
‘Alison was the only person who messaged me and went “Seen it, you’re amazing!”‘
The Bake Off star’s response prompted the studio to burst into laughter, with guests Jason Fox and Hermione Norris among those applauding her.
Joel has remained good-humoured about the catfish sting – with even his wife Hannah Cooper-Dommett previously making jokes about the incident.
Joel’s wife Hannah has previously joked about his sex tape (Picture: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock)
Sharing their wedding video in 2019, Hannah said on Instagram: ‘Joel doesn’t have a very good past with Internet videos but this one kinda makes up for it.’
Joel also addressed the Skype sex tape in a social media statement in 2016.
It explained: ‘Joel was catfished a long time ago by somebody pretending to be someone else on the internet and was lured into Skype sex.
‘That Skype sex session turned out to be entirely fake and has come back to bite Joel in the ass (Joel’s ass is a good friend of mine and also features in the video).’
While on I’m A Celeb in 2016, he told the other campmates of his harrowing experience: ‘I thought I was having Skype sex with someone but it was actually a video and it turned out it was someone watching me, watching porn, a porno Gogglebox.’
Rob Beckett’s Smart TV is available to stream on Now.
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