Dermot O'Leary opened This Morning on June 19 with Angela Scanlon after Alison Hammond was absent from the Friday show. The swap mattered because Hammond had said two days earlier that she would be back on Friday, so viewers saw a different line-up than expected.
Dermot O'Leary and Angela Scanlon
Dermot O'Leary set the tone at 10am with a direct welcome: "Hi everyone, welcome to Friday's This Morning! Look who's here, welcome to Angela Scanlon everyone!" Scanlon answered, "Thank you very much," and later told him, "I'm very well thank you, happy to be here again!"
The programme then moved straight into its Father's Day segment. O'Leary said, "It's Father's Day this weekend so today, we're celebrating with the songs that remind you guys of the father figure in your life." He added, "Whether it's your dad, grandad, stepdad, someone that knows your dad, we want to hear about them, as long as they're guys, and [it's] music that means something to you."
June 17 on Good Morning Britain
Alison Hammond, 51, had told Good Morning Britain on June 17 that she would be back on Friday: "[I'll] be back on Friday... We've got Jason Mimosa on Friday, that's gonna be fun!" Susanna Reid replied, "I think it's Momoa!" That expectation made her absence from the June 19 broadcast stand out immediately.
Hammond also posted a video of her new leopard print footwear on June 18, but that did not translate into an appearance on the Friday edition. Viewers noticed the change as soon as Angela Scanlon appeared beside O'Leary, and no further details were given for Hammond's absence.
I Love to Boogie opener
The show began with O'Leary and Scanlon dancing to I Love to Boogie by T. Rex, a small but useful signal that the team was treating the handover as a live-TV reset rather than a disruption. For regular viewers, the practical takeaway is simple: the Friday presenter slot shifted on the day, and Hammond's stated return did not land on that broadcast.
For now, the unanswered point is why Hammond was missing from This Morning on June 19. Until that is addressed, the safest reading is that the Friday chair changed at the last minute and Scanlon carried the episode with O'Leary in Hammond's place.
