Alison Hammond, 46, has opened up on Good Morning Britain about her father's relationship with Muhammed Ali and her encounters with him as a child.
Alison was on GMB to promote her new memoir You've Got To Laugh.On the show Alison told Susanna and Richard that her father used to be Muhammed Ali's bodyguard whenever he visited the UK.She said: "I mean can you believe it?"They weren’t just mates, he [my dad] was his bodyguard so every time he came over to Birmingham my dad would be looking after Muhammad Ali, the legend and the icon that he is."But the thing is, I can remember it like yesterday, I can remember Ali grabbing me and cuddling me - ha no he didn’t punch me, I might have punched him!
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