Alison Hammond reveals she gained a stone during Bake Off and now has a 'strict cake rule'
04.05.2024 - 10:01
/ ok.co.uk
Alison Hammond has admitted that she previously gained a stone during last year's filming of Bake Off after replacing former co-host Matt Lucas so she's now come up with a strict cake tasting rule.
The This Morning star, 49, originally said she only agreed to join the much-loved show in the 2023 series 'for the cake' but now she's curbed the tasty treats with her strict new plan for cake tasting. In 2022, Alison revealed she had cut out sugar to help her shed weight. She weighed 20 stone at her heaviest and started to lose weight after her beloved mother sadly died in 2020.
She's since lost the excess 14lbs she gained during an incredible weight loss transformation but now that filming for Bake Off's upcoming series has begun, she's determined not to gain again. Alison told the Off Menu podcast: "But I love that show for the cake. People don't realise I am literally there for the cake.
After every bake you're allowed to taste every bake and last year I put on a stone. It's taken me a year to take that stone off. "So now I'm only eating if they get a handshake or the winner of a section.
But anything else sorry, I'm not going there." Alison added that there's only a handshake "every so often" so if there is one, "I'm going to taste that cake without a doubt." But it means if there's no handshakes, "there'll be no cake that I'm tasting." Alison, who recently started filming the new series of the baking show, also admitted things aren't as always as comfortable in the tent as they seem. "I've never seen the tent so cold," she commented. "It was freezing...I had my thermals on underneath my dress." Alison's revelation about her new cake tasting rule comes just a day after she revealed she's been clearing out her old size 26
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