Alison Hammond is ‘talking MARRIAGE with gardener boyfriend’ reveals his dad
THE father of Alison Hammond’s gardener boyfriend has let slip they are planning marriage.
Alison, 48, has been secretly dating Ben Hawkins for two years.
Now his dad Colin, 72, says a wedding is on the cards after a low key proposal.
He told MailOnline: “I do know they have both proposed to one another but there are no rings that I know of.”
Alison, 48, who co-hosted last night’s Baftas, says she is “willing to marry” but has not named her lover.
This Morning co-host Dermot O’Leary, 49, was first to reveal Alison’s romance in June last year, letting slip that she was a “taken” woman.
Giggling Alison joked: “Can you believe Dermot outed me on the TV?”
Speaking about her fella, she said: “He loves me to bits. He absolutely worships me and massages my feet every single day.
In November, she told a podcast it was “a little bit” love at first sight for her, adding: “I don’t think it was love at first sight on their front.”
The Sun yesterday revealed her hunky new man has been jailed on separate occasions for driving under the influence of cocaine and dealing cannabis.
Sources insisted Hawkins, also sent to prison for attacking a cabbie, was “a changed man”.
Alison spokesman did not comment on the claims.
We approached Ben, whose last offence was in 2015, for comment.