Alison Hammond is not pregnant. She confirmed it in June 2025 on Instagram, with characteristic bluntness: she was not having a baby because she was not sure, as she put it, her “50 year old womb could take it.” The post landed, her celebrity peers liked it, This Morning turned it into a TikTok clip, and by the end of that afternoon the story was effectively over.
How it started has received considerably less attention.
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The AI-Generated Photos That Sparked the Rumour
The Alison Hammond pregnancy rumours did not begin with an out-of-context photograph or a misread tabloid headline. They began with AI-generated content — fabricated images and fake written articles circulating across the internet, all claiming Hammond was expecting a child.
The content spread far enough that members of her own family believed it. That detail comes from ITV’s own This Morning account, which posted a clip of Hammond addressing the story with the caption: “She sets the record straight after AI-generated pregnancy photos of her went viral online, even fooling her own family.” The clip received over 3,300 likes. The family detail, arguably the most significant part of the whole episode, received almost no follow-up from the outlets that ran the story.
Someone close enough to Hammond to care about her had looked at a fabricated image and, at least for a moment, thought it was real. That is what AI tools are now capable of producing at scale. That is the part of this that is not funny.
What Alison Hammond Said, Word for Word
On June 7, 2025, Hammond went to Instagram directly. Her post read:
“Lots of Ai stories online about me being pregnant, I can confirm I am not having a baby as I’m not sure my 50 year old womb could take it.”
On her Instagram Story, she added a “fake news” emoji and a second, shorter statement: “I am not pregnant.”
She also uploaded a video of herself dancing in her living room to the song Baby Mama. The reference was deliberate. Three days earlier, Meghan Markle had posted footage of herself dancing in a hospital delivery room while pregnant, filmed just before Princess Lilibet’s birth in June 2021, shared to mark Lilibet’s fourth birthday on June 4, 2025. Meghan’s caption read: “Four years ago today, this also happened. Both of our children were a week past their due dates… so when spicy food, all that walking, and acupuncture didn’t work, there was only one thing left to do.”
Hammond took the same song and filmed herself dancing in her living room, very much not in a delivery room and very much not pregnant. The contrast was the joke, and the internet caught it immediately.
The Reaction From Her Peers
Josie Gibson and Holly Willoughby both liked the post. Amanda Holden left heart-eyed and laughing emojis in the comments. Alexandra Burke and This Morning’s resident GP, Dr Punam Krishan, also responded with laughing emojis. One fan wrote: “Just brilliant.” Another suggested Hammond and Markle should film a joint dancing video together.
The warmth was genuine and immediate. People were, rightly, impressed by how she handled it. The response became the story. Which is precisely where things get interesting.
Why the Alison Hammond Pregnancy Rumours Spread as Far as They Did
AI-generated fake content does not gain traction evenly. It spreads when something already in circulation about a person makes the fabrication feel, at a glance, worth a second look. With Hammond in the summer of 2025, there were two clear factors.
Her appearance had changed significantly in public view
Over roughly five years, Hammond went from approximately 28 stone to 17 stone — a loss of 11 stone. She has addressed the inevitable speculation about medication directly and consistently, crediting instead four personal training sessions a week, Reformer Pilates, and a substantial change in her diet. A gastric band fitted in 2007 was later removed after her body rejected it; that procedure was separate from and unrelated to the recent transformation.
The catalyst for the change was a prediabetes diagnosis. She described where she had been in plain terms in an interview with Good Housekeeping: “I was in a situation where I was morbidly obese. I had to lose weight because I was dying, I really was dying.”
The shift has been publicly visible and rapid. Fellow presenter Ferne McCann commented on one of her Instagram posts: “errrrm hello you look insane.” Nicola Thorp added: “STUNNA.” When a woman’s body changes that noticeably in public, the internet tends to reach for explanations. Pregnancy is reliably one of the first.
She had recently gone public with a new relationship
Hammond confirmed in April 2024 that she was dating David Putman, a Russian masseur and model who was 28 at the time of the pregnancy story and 22 years her junior. The two had been together since late 2023, when they met after Hammond booked him for a massage. By late 2025, they were living together in London, having relocated from Birmingham to a London suburb in March 2024.
The age gap attracted its own coverage from the start. Hammond addressed it in Good Housekeeping’s January 2025 issue: “I can see how, on paper, you’d notice the age difference. But honestly, when we see the word ‘toyboy’ written about us, it bears no relation to what we have at all.” To MailOnline she was more concise: “We are absolutely in love.”
A visibly changed body combined with a publicly discussed new relationship gave the AI-generated content just enough surface plausibility to travel — past strangers, and apparently past people who actually know her.
This Was Not the First False Story About Her
The pregnancy rumour was not Hammond’s first encounter with fabricated online claims about her personal life. Before it, false engagement reports had spread widely enough that she addressed them live on air during a This Morning segment, moving a ring from her left hand to her right on camera and saying: “Oh my God! Apparently I am engaged? Let me swap it over to stop these rumours.”
Two separate false stories. Both about her personal life. Both requiring public correction from Hammond herself. The pregnancy rumour and the engagement rumour belong to the same category of AI-assisted misinformation targeting women whose relationships and bodies are already being publicly discussed.
Where Alison Hammond Is Now
Hammond turned 51 on February 5, 2026. She co-presents This Morning on ITV alongside Dermot O’Leary, co-hosts The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4 with Noel Fielding, presents For the Love of Dogs on ITV, and since January 2026 has been hosting the Official Bridgerton Podcast for Netflix. She has 2 million Instagram followers and is BAFTA-nominated.
She and Putman live together in London. Her son Aidan, whom she had in 2005 with former partner Noureddine Boufaied, also lives with her. She spoke about Aidan’s view of the relationship on the Parenting Hell podcast, noting he had met Putman and responded positively — something she said mattered considerably to her: “Normally Aiden hates anybody I date, literally just not interested. And you just know at that point, if Aiden doesn’t like them, this isn’t gonna work.”
By any professional measure, Hammond is at the height of her career. That did not make her immune to having fabricated pregnancy content generated and spread about her. It rarely does.
The question of whether Alison Hammond is pregnant has a clear answer, confirmed on Instagram in June 2025 in her own words. What sits alongside that answer is something the coverage largely skipped: a woman at 50, in the middle of her best professional stretch, had to interrupt her schedule to tell the internet that her body was her own. She was funny about it. The clips still circulate. The tools that generated the images in the first place have not changed.
