‘It’s our last show!’: Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary announce they’re leaving This Morning as they sign off for the summer
Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary have announced that they’re leaving This Morning for the summer, with the duo hosting their final show on Friday.
The funny pair, who took over the end-of-week slot in January, are now stepping away from the ITV hit until September.
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby will present all of the shows next week and then Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, both 61, will take the reigns.
See you in September! Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary have announced that they’re leaving This Morning for the summer, with the duo hosting their final show on Friday
From Monday 12 July, Eamonn and Ruth will be presenting each week in the summer, including the Friday episode.
Speaking about their exit on Friday, Dermot and Alison seemed cheery and made the most of their last couple of hours on the TV together.
Dermot said: ‘Lovely of you to join us. I’m very excited today because it’s our last show of the season, isn’t it?’
While Alison smiling as she replied: ‘I know, we’ll be back in September.’
Full working week: Usual weekday hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby will present all of the shows next week (pictured together on Thursday’s edition of the ITV hit)
Stepping in: From July 12, Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes will take the reigns and present This Morning through the summer (pictured hosting an episode in October)
Elsewhere on Friday’s show, Alison shared the moment she fell over in her garden in the rain while wearing no underwear.
The presenter was left red-face as she revealed she ended up flashing her CCTV system while taking a tumble.
Alison explained that she had wanted to enjoy the torrential rain in the UK last week, so stepped out onto her patio tiles, but slipped over and cut open her leg – all while baring all on camera.
The unfortunate fall occurred last Friday after Alison had finished filming the ITV daytime show.
Ouch: Elsewhere on the show Alison revealed CCTV of the moment she fell over in her garden and was seen sporting a huge bandage on her leg covering her wound
She had been sitting under the pergola in her garden when it started rain and decided to embrace the downpour.
Alison – who was seen with a huge bandage on her leg – recalled: ‘I was chilling out under the pergola… I started walking out, had the rain in my face and something terrible happened.’
‘This is my CCTV, then what happens… I slip,’ she confessed, before revealing why the footage show on This Morning had a heart covering Alison below the waist.
She laughed: ‘The reason why there is a little heart there is because I like to chill out and take all my underwear off, so there’s a little heart there to cover my modesty.
Cheeky: She left viewers in stitches as she revealed the heart was to cover her modesty
X-rated: Alison confessed she doesn’t like to wear underwear while chilling out at home which meant she ended up flashing while taking a tumble
‘It was quite a bad fall you know, it’s raining, it’s full on, I can’t get up because I think I’ve broken my leg.
‘My brother comes out to try and help me out, his bottom is all over CCTV. He can’t lift me up because obviously I’m quite big. He helps me up, I eventually use the bad leg and then totter inside.’
Alison admitted that the whole experience was traumatic and joked that she was unable to show a photo of her injured leg as it wasn’t appropriate ‘pre-watershed’.
Dermot seemed to agree as he said he was horrified after noticing the wound on Alison’s leg, as they arrived ahead of their live broadcast this morning.
Taking a break: Alison is now looking at a three month break from the show, returning to her gig in September (pictured on This Morning in June)