Dermot O’Leary, 48, was forced to have a "very frank" chat following an "awkward on-air moment" that took place shortly after they began hosting This Morning's Friday slot in January.The doting father explained he and his colleague were “thrown together” with “no time to prepare” for their prime time roles.Their pairing came as a surprise – not least to Dermot and Alison themselves – when it was announced in January they would work together.The first few months were decidedly tricky as they struggled to click – Dermot says it was little wonder the chemistry took time.He said: “We never got to pilot, we’d never read a script through, we didn’t even have lunch together."We literally met for the first time in 15 years or so and that morning we.
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