For the Love of Dogs followers slammed new host Alison Hammond for not being a ‘good match’ on the present throughout the latese episode.
The This Morning alum, 49, has taken over internet hosting duties on the ITV present from the late Paul O’Grady, who handed away aged 67 in March 2023.
Some viewers have been important of Alison as her debut collection airs, and through Tuesday’s new episode followers a number of took to X – previously Twitter – to recommend the star lacks ’empathy’ for the pooches featured.
Some eagled-eye followers additionally talked about the host appeared like she was ‘scared’ to pet the dogs.
Long-time viewers of the present inevitably in contrast her to Paul, remarking she has no pets of her personal and subsequently cannot absolutely put her ‘coronary heart’ into the tales of the dogs featured.
‘I like Alison however there’s no manner she needs to be on for the love of dogs, studying off a script, scared to even stroke the dogs!’;Our Alison doesn’t like dogs why is she internet hosting this present LOL #ForTheLoveOfDogs’; ‘Alison is so uneducated in the case of animals, completely horrible presenter #ForTheLoveOfDogs’;
‘Programme simply not good anymore missing one thing. Why can’t the employees star in it or have completely different presenters every week ? #ForTheLoveOfDogs’; ‘No coronary heart in it. Other presenters would’ve been a more sensible choice’.
Yet, different folks have been having fun with Alison’s new position and rushed to her defence, with some saying:
‘I really feel just like the folks tweeting are watching a unique present to me – i believe alison hammond is doing a fantastic job! no, she’s by no means going to be paul o’grady however she’s not attempting to be! he would need the present to proceed #fortheloveofdogs’;
‘Alison has accomplished a fantastic job and if she was afraid of dogs earlier than then good on her for going through her fears and overcoming it! #fortheloveofdogs’.
The feedback come days after a former This Morning visitor questioned Alison’s suitability for internet hosting the favored collection.
Claire-Louise Nixon, director of the Wheels To Paws charity, recalled being interviewed by Alison in 2019 and claimed the broadcaster was ‘scared’ of her brood of four-legged pals
Telling The Sun that when when she requested why Alison was going forward with the interview the TV star relied: ‘I’ve acquired to pay my mortgage’.
Claire-Louise informed publication: ‘Alison was afraid of dogs when she got here to interview me so we needed to do it exterior’.
‘I did ask her: ‘Why did you do that interview in case you are afraid of dogs?’ She replied: ‘I’ve acquired to pay my mortgage.”
Alison, who has by no means owned a canine, was interviewing Claire-Louise in Milton Keynes for the This Morning function The Incredible Woman Who Rescued 27 Dogs.
An ITV spokesman informed MailOnline: ‘The choice to movie exterior was made by the manufacturing workforce completely independently of Alison purely on the idea that it was a extra applicable match for the merchandise and the present and any suggestion in any other case is inaccurate.’
Alison’s concern of dogs stems from seeing a young boy get brutally attacked, as she describes in her 2021 autobiography, You’ve Got To Laugh.
She says within the e book: ‘The canine took an enormous chunk out of his leg and blood poured all over the place. I had to assist him hobble again to his mum, screaming in ache.
‘For weeks afterwards, the youngsters on our road by no means stopped speaking about savage dogs and gushing wounds.’
