Bake Off bosses’ unlikely request to Alison Hammond in order to land presenting job | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV [Video]

The Great British Bake Off’s newest addition, Alison Hammond, has opened up on the unusual audition process she underwent to land a presenting role on the show.

The 48-year-old mum of one has replaced Matt Lucas as Noel Fielding’s co-presenter on the hugely popular baking competition, but she has now revealed she had a far from traditional job interview.

Seemingly, show bosses wanted to get a sense of her ability to small talk to guage how she would handle spontaneous chats with the contestants on the show, so they came up with a novel way to test this.

“For the second audition, I went to a garden centre to see if I could speak to random people,” the This Morning host recalled.

“The dreamiest people came my way. I met a couple who were both 93 and I asked them the secret of a successful marriage, and they gave me advice,” she recollected to this …