Alison officially started co-hosting earlier this year (Picture: Rex)

Alison Hammond thinks her mum would be proud of her for presenting This Morning.

The 46-year-old TV star – who lost her mother, Maria, in February last year after a battle with lung and liver cancer – has been co-hosting the ITV show on Fridays with Dermot O’Leary since January, but thinks the promotion was ‘bittersweet’ as she couldn’t share the news with her mum.