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<\/p>\nAlison Hammond has admitted she is ‘finally ready to settle down’ after years of ‘getting cold feet’ in past relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The This Morning star, 48, who is currently single, revealed she ‘has always been scared’ of commitment but is now ready to tie the knot if Mr Right comes along.<\/p>\n
Alison was previously engaged to cab driver Noureddine Boufaied, the father of her son Aiden, 18, but claimed she ‘wasn’t ready for marriage at the time.’<\/p>\n
Alison dated landscape gardener\u00a0Ben Hawkins for two years, before their split earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking to Gyles Brandreth in an episode of his podcast Rosebud \u2013 which starts on Friday, the TV personality explained that she ‘loves her own company’ and believes that’s why she struggles in relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It’s time:\u00a0Alison Hammond has admitted hat she is ‘finally ready to settle down’ after years of ‘getting cold feet’ in past relationships<\/p>\n
Alison said: ‘I think that\u2019s why I struggle in relationships, because I don\u2019t want somebody around me all the time. I absolutely love being on my own. I\u2019m OK with it. I\u2019ve never felt lonely.<\/p>\n
‘I think as soon as I hear the word marriage I get cold feet. I think I’m just one of those people.<\/p>\n
‘I always – not think there’s something better – but I always get a bit nervous to know that is it.<\/p>\n
‘I just feel like I’m tied down and I don’t like it, when really and truly, I’m getting to that age now where I think “Alison, let go – it’s OK to settle down.”‘<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the chat, Alison also revealed people wrongly believed she has been married before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For years, it’s been widely believed that the presenter was once married to cab driver Noureddine, the father of her son Aiden.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She explained although Noureddine was a ‘lovely guy’ and they became engaged at 30-years-old – the word ‘marriage’ scared her at the time.<\/p>\n
Agreeing she has been a commitment-phobe until now, she said: ‘A lot of people think I’ve been married – I’ve never been married.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Changes: The This Morning star, who is currently single, revealed that she ‘has always been scared’ of commitment but is now ready to tie the knot if Mr Right comes along<\/p>\n
‘If you look online it’s like Alison was married to Aiden’s dad, but I wasn’t. He engaged me but we never actually got married.<\/p>\n
‘He’s a lovely guy – he’s from Tunisia actually. So I went out to Tunisia to do some repping. I was an entertainer out in Tunisia. I never met anyone when I was in Tunisia – I came home and met a Tunisian man, which was bizarre.’<\/p>\n
‘Aiden’s dad was just a lovely guy. He had the most beautiful smile and that’s what I fell in love with, and Aiden’s got that smile as well.<\/p>\n
‘I just don’t feel like we were ready for marriage at the time. It was the perfect time to get married.’<\/p>\n
She did not reveal why she split from Aiden’s father, but since then Alison was reportedly engaged to single dad and security guard Jamie Savage after meeting him online, and more recently she dated landscape gardener Ben Hawkins for around two years after hiring him to work on her garden in 2021.<\/p>\n
Alison’s love life has been the subject of much speculation, even from her This Morning team and co-host Dermot O’Leary, who congratulated her on getting engaged to Hawkins.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She quickly denied to him they were engaged and she has been fairly cagey about discussing her romances.<\/p>\n
Her relationship with Ben was kept very private, but his father Colin said the pair had proposed to each other – leading to the subject being raised on This Morning.<\/p>\n
Her co-star Dermot O’Leary opened the show to the sounds of wedding bells and exclaimed:\u00a0‘I hear a congratulations are in order, someone is getting married.’<\/p>\n
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Split: She was previously engaged to cab driver Noureddine Boufaied but claimed that she ‘wasn’t ready for marriage at the time’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Family: Alison and\u00a0Noureddine share her son Aiden, 18 (pictured in July)<\/p>\n
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Oh dear! Her relationship with ex boyfriend Ben was kept very private, but his father Colin said the pair had proposed to each other – leading to the subject being raised on This Morning<\/p>\n
Alison laughed: ‘Cut the music! I’m not engaged, I’m so sorry I’m not engaged!<\/p>\n
‘I told you, if I was ever to get engaged or get married I would be the first person to tell you! I’d put all over Instagram and TikTok!’\u00a0<\/p>\n
She continued: ‘Sorry, it’s fake news! I’m not getting married. One day it might happen, but sorry babes but it’s fake news.’<\/p>\n
‘You’d be the first to know!’<\/p>\n
‘I was looking forward to walking you down the aisle!’ Dermot joked.\u00a0<\/p>\n