Alison Hammond Backtracks After Recent Comments About Hosting Strictly Come Dancing

Alison Hammond has made something of a u-turn after her recent comments about potentially becoming one of the new hosts of Strictly Come Dancing.

Since last year, the This Morning favourite has been one of the reported frontrunners to be taking over from Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, who stepped down as the presenters of Strictly at the end of the most recent series.

Despite previously expressing her hopes to land the gig, Alison made headlines last week when she suggested she was too busy to take on the role.

However, it seems she may have spoken too soon.

Reacting to headlines claiming she’d “turned down” an offer to host Strictly, she told Metro: “Do you think I would turn down Strictly if Strictly came along? Who would turn down Strictly! They’d be absolutely crazy.”

She claimed: “I was trying to back them off because ultimately everyone keeps putting my name in the mix and they’re ruining my chances of even getting on to Strictly, d’you know what I mean?”

“You all need to stop talking about it because I need to get in,” Alison added, before insisting: “I’m not too busy, I’m fitter than I’ve ever been before. I can do Strictly. I can do it all.”

After confirming last week that she’d been approached about hosting Strictly, Alison explained to Radio Times: “I’m so busy, babes, that I’m not sure it’s going to happen. It’s unrealistic. I’m so happy they considered me but, like Traitors, I can’t do it because everything clashes.

“I would have loved to have done it – anybody that gets it, they’re going to land the perfect job. But I’m so happy with everything I’ve got. What would I drop, to do Strictly?”

Other names heavily rumoured to be in the running to host Strictly include Bradley Walsh, Alex Jones and Zoe Ball, while Alan Carr and Amanda Holden have already ruled themselves out for different reasons.