This Morning host Alison Hammond has been with the show for 20 years, but few embarrassing moments have topped the one where she inadvertently shoved a "gorgeous" model into the water on live TV.
As she navigated the floating weather map, which has been a fixture on the show since 1988, she stumbled - and her attempt to steady herself sent an assistant dressed as a sexy sailor plunging into the water."I thought at one point I killed him!" Alison exclaimed of the tricky moment."They said: 'We want you to go in there and recreate the weather map,'" she recalled."'We're going to put two gorgeous models on there' - and I was like: 'Great!
What could possibly go wrong?'"Quite a lot actually," she jokingly confided of the mishap, which left the sailor very unanchored.Alison had just taken her watering can out, pouring the liquid onto the dragon symbol to simulate a rain shower in Wales, when she almost slipped.In a bid to break her fall, she grabbed out and lunged at the model-turned-assistant, forcing him into the water."I jumped over and I was grabbing his arm, just to steady myself, at which point he [fell] off!" she explained."It was literally about three seconds of thinking: 'Have I killed that man?'"Fortunately, the mishap - which, in Alison's mind, could have ended very differently - did not result in anyone being drowned.Afterwards, she admitted: "I look at it [now] and I think: 'Did he purposely try and do that to me...
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