Alison Hammond

doesn’t stop making fans happy, even amid huge tragedy. Alison’s mother died from cancer four years ago, and she recalls how she was approached by a fan at the hospital just afterwards.

She says: “On the way out, a woman asked me for a photo.

“And I said, ‘Of course!’ That’s my job. People like that put me where I am today and I was looking at the phone screen, at our selfie, thinking, my mum just died.

“But it made that woman happy, so of course I took it. I’m not going to deny someone a photo just because I’m not in the mood.”

The presenter adds to the Sunday Times: “I bring joy, that’s my role.

“And if that can happen for somebody through my laugh, which even I find annoying, that’s fine by me. I take it seriously, because life is hard and you’ve just seen how people react to me.

“I make them forget their life.”

She also reckons new This Morning hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard will “save the show” after all its controversies – and says she is happy to be sticking around hosting Fridays.

Sharon Osbourne’s stint on Celebrity Big Brother was brief but she earned every penny of her reported £500,000 fee.

On last night’s show, she bitched about “uneducated” former US President Donald Trump – “thank god he’s 78 because we won’t have to suffer him long” (well he will be in June, Sharon), revealed husband Ozzy was “stoned

... never sober” while filming their reality series The Osbournes, and lashed out at Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen’s daughter Sami for being on Onlyfans.

Sami, 19, has described herself as a “sex worker”, and Sharon doesn’t approve.

“What message is she sending out to other young girls?” she scoffed.

Bless Ekin-su Culculoglu, who innocently asked Sharon whether she would ever join the subscription sex site. Sharon’s reply was a succinct: “F*** off.” A brilliant housemate.