Judi Love needed to make clear to the viewers of Ealing Comedy Competition that she’s not Alison Hammond – regardless of being mistaken for her by everybody from taxi drivers to dates she’d simply slept with – and he or she selected an particularly brutal method to emphasise the distinction. Bounding onto the stage on Thursday, the Free Girls star launched herself with the phrases: “For these of you who do not know me, I wish to make clear my identify’s Judi Love! A few of you’re looking like, ‘Oh my God, Alison [Hammond’s] misplaced quite a lot of weight!'” She added: “I like her, however I am not that massive,” as she added: “Baby, I am not her, okay?!”
She went on to clarify that she’d even been described as “Alison Love” by a driver who’d been selecting her up “each single day”, and that when she moved to leafy Richmond – a riverside district on the outskirts of London – locals had whispered to one another about “Alison Hammond transferring in”. Judi is trimmer than her fellow ITV star, at present greatest identified for This Morning and For The Love Of Canines, who at her heaviest weighed nearly 30 stone. She has since misplaced 11 and a half stone, whereas Judi made a extra modest weight lack of one and a half stone whereas coaching for Strictly Come Dancing again in 2021.
Nevertheless, regardless of their variations in measurement, the Alison comparisons simply maintain coming – and Judi groaned: “This has occurred many occasions – even one man on a date! I had intercourse with him after which he mentioned, ‘ALISON!'”
The gang broke into laughter, as she continued with a spirited dialog about her disastrous love life since then.
She confessed that she is at present “so single” – a lot so {that a} vibrator she’d left wrapped in her bedsheets had stunned her by “falling out of the dryer”.
“Have you learnt how single you must be for that to occur? [The dating pool] is so unhealthy on the market, to the purpose that I now discover out I am being interested in purple flags,” she quipped.
The 45-year-old TV persona added that for the over 40s, a “poisonous” man was merely seen as somebody who’d “lived life”, somewhat than somebody to keep away from in any respect prices.
“[It means] you’ve got received a bit of little bit of knowledge in your soul. Poisonous at 45 could be good credit score – I can work with that!” she joked.
Later, there was a tense second, with the viewers breaking into boos when she revealed that she’d met King Charles and different members of the Royal Household throughout a Commonwealth Diaspora reception at Buckingham Palace.
“Ethically I do not know if I wish to go,” she confided, suggesting she is likely to be “upset” by shows of wealth, earlier than including she’d had a change of coronary heart as her dad and mom had been “royalists”.
