‘I’d be over the moon’: Dermot O’Leary reveals he would love to host This Morning for another decade
Dermot O’Leary has revealed he would love to host This Morning for another decade.
The 49-year-old presenter took over as co-host of the Friday slot with Alison Hammond in January 2021.
Speaking on the Christmas episode of the Dish podcast, he said: “It’s a beautiful thing. If someone said to me “You’ll do Friday for the next 10 years”. I would be overjoyed. I love it.’
Keen: Dermot O’Leary has revealed he would like to host This Morning for another decade
It comes after Dermot revealed he and Alison were forced to have a “very candid” conversation following an “awkward on-air moment” that took place shortly after they took over as co-hosts.
Doting dad Dermot explained that he and Alison “were thrown together without preparing.”
Dermot said: “We literally met for the first time in about 15 years and that morning we presented two and a half hours of live television together.”
Co-Hosts: The 49-year-old host took over as co-host of the Friday slot with Alison Hammond in January 2021
Tough start: It comes after Dermot revealed he and Alison were forced to have a “very candid” conversation following an “awkward on-air moment” that took place shortly after they took over as co-hosts
Dermot added that he and Alison “both did something the other didn’t like,” and said he and his co-host were forced to beat things up.
Speaking to The Sun last year, he explained: “We both did something the other didn’t like – nothing big – but after it happened we looked at each other and I said, ‘You didn’t like it when I did you did that, didn’t you?”
“And she said no, she didn’t. And I said, “Okay, I didn’t like when you did that thing.”
He added: “And we both laughed because now we knew. The most important thing is to find out what upsets the other person and make sure you don’t do it again.”
Dermot added that he now sees Alison “as a sister” and the two “support each other’s backs”.
The veteran TV host also noted that he and Alison now “know each other’s beats and nuances” and that their co-host gig “feels very natural.”
ITV announced last year that Dermot and Alison would replace Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on the Friday slot of This Morning.
Eamonn and Ruth, who presented the Friday morning slot for 14 years, now host the ITV show Monday to Thursday during the schools’ summer holidays.
Best pals: Dermot added that he now sees Alison “as a sister” and the couple now “has each other’s backs”.