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From Good Housekeeping

Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary have been announced as regular hosts on This Morning. The pair are set to share hosting duties with Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, Eamonn Holmes OBE and Ruth Langsford from January 2021.

Rumours were circling but it’s now been confirmed by ITV; from 8 January Alison and Dermot will host This Morning shows on Fridays, which are currently hosted by Eamonn and Ruth. Holly and Phillip will stay in their current slots, and Eamonn and Ruth will continue to host the show during key holidays.

Managing Director, ITV Daytime, Emma Gormley said: “We are delighted that Alison and Dermot will be joining the main presenting family on This Morning.

“Alison has provided some of the most memorable moments on the show in…

This Morning saw Paddy McGuinness host today as he replaced Dermot O’Leary – and some viewers weren’t happy!

It’s Friday which means usually Dermot hosts the show alongside Alison Hammond. However, this Friday, things were different and Dermot was nowhere to be seen!

Opening the show, Alison said: “Hello and a very warm welcome to your Friday’s This Morning.”

This Morning today: Dermot O’Leary replaced by Paddy McGuinness

She continued, turning to Paddy: “Happy St. David’s Day – Paddy McGuinness! How are you? It’s so good to see you.”

Paddy, 50, replied: “I’m alright. Giving us 20 minutes before we’re taken off air,” as Alison laughed.

Alison…

Phillip Schofield bared all in interviews with The Sun and BBC amid the fallout of confessing to an affair with a This Morning runner. Here is what he said:

‘I did not groom him’

Schofield insists he is not a groomer, saying that while he met the former colleague while he was a teenager, their interactions were innocent and only became sexual when the runner was around 20/21 years old.

He said it never felt like an ‘abuse of power’ because they were ‘mates’.

The affair began in 2017

He has said that the affair began after a ‘consensual moment’ in his dressing room.

‘It was not a love affair, it was not a relationship, we were not boyfriends; we were mates,’ he insisted. ‘It wasn’t feelings (I was getting), it was more like mates: excitement.’

His wife is ‘very, very…

Dermot O’Leary has shared a gushing tribute and said co-hosting an entire week of This Morning was a ‘privilege’  amid the ongoing Phillip Schofield scandal. 

The host, 50, who has been fronting the show alongside Alison Hammond, 48, took to Instagram with a slew of snaps from his busy stint in front of the camera.

Phillip, 61, quit ITV with immediate effect after admitted to cheating on wife Stephanie with the man, while he admitted deceiving his ITV employees and colleagues about his affair.

Dermot playfully posed alongside Alison in the snaps as well as with a number of the show’s celebrity guests. 

The duo beamed, shaking off any signs of drama, with actors Ian McKellan, Roger Allam and the Spitting Image puppets.

Privilege: Dermot O’Leary, 50, has shared a gushing tribute…