Alison Hammond found fame with her crazy antics on Big Brother in 2002 before becoming a much-loved regular on This Morning.
But while her gregarious on-screen personality has won her legions of fans, behind the scenes Alison, 46 - who recently took over the show's Friday slot - is much less extroverted, preferring to live a low-key life.
So much so that when she celebrated her birthday on This Morning on February 5, viewers were shocked to find she shares her birthday with someone else - her 16-year-old son Aiden.
It was on the ITV show that a pregnant Alison had a scan all those years ago and discovered she was expecting a boy with then-husband, Manchester cab driver Noureddine Boufaied. “It’s my son’s birthday today too… Sixteen years
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