Alison Hammond reveals bizarre audition that bagged her Great British Bake Off job
TV star Alison Hammond had to interview strangers in a garden centre for her Great British Bake Off audition, she has revealed.
And the This Morning host said there was not even any cake involved.
She told The Sun: “They made me interview random strangers, to obviously see if I’m good with different people.
“It was a weird audition.”
Alison had already done a garden centre visit for This Morning back in 2020.
After landing the Bake Off role, the 48-year-old said she had to keep it secret for three weeks — but could not resist telling her son, Aiden, 18.
She said: “Can you believe I couldn’t tell anybody?
“You know what my mouth is like.”
The star will co-host the Channel 4 show alongside Noel Fielding, 49, replacing Matt Lucas, also 49.
She said she had been congratulated by Bake Off judges Paul Hollywood, 57, and Prue Leith, 83.
She said: “They all said really lovely things.
“I think Mary Berry even got in on it as well.”
And Alison told how GBBO was one of her late mum Maria’s favourite shows, saying: “The fact she doesn’t get to see it — I’m devastated.
“It’s bittersweet. My mum was always a massive supporter of me.
“She was always cheering me on from the side lines.”