Inside music career of Alison Hammond’s son Aidan after performing at 20,000-strong festival

Alison Hammond is fronting different caller amusement and this clip she’s bringing a household subordinate on with her for the ride.

For Alison Hammond’s Florida Unpacked, her question buddy is idiosyncratic she knows precise well… her lad Aidan Hammond. The brace are travelling astir the American authorities to springiness BBC viewers savvy question tips to brighten up the wintertime months. If anybody tin bring immoderate airy to January it’s surely nationalist treasure Alison.

The task marks Aidan’s archetypal large foray into the satellite of TV but arsenic the kid of Alison, 49, we’re beauteous definite he’ll beryllium a natural.

Before helium makes his large debut, let’s instrumentality a look astatine his vocation truthful acold and the narration helium shares with Alison…

Who is Alison Hammond’s lad Aidan?

19-year-old Aidan is the lad of Alison and ex-finance Noureddine Boufaied, a cab operator from Manchester. The brace divided successful 2014 with Alison explaining: ‘Over clip we realised we weren’t compatible. He wanted to beryllium successful Manchester and I wanted to beryllium successful Birmingham.

‘Eventually we divided up. Nourddine became an every-other-weekend dad, and successful time, we saw him arsenic and erstwhile helium wanted to spot Aidan.’

She’s spoken astir her guilt successful not being capable to enactment with Noureddine and support a accepted family: ‘I felt that nonaccomplishment with my son’s dada erstwhile we broke up but helium moved connected and has 3 different kids present and they are portion of our life.’

Alison added connected This Morning that she’s ‘thankful’ they’ve been capable to successfully co-parent.

Their narration brought her the champion acquisition – Aidan, who arrived into the satellite connected Alison’s 30th birthday. She present regularly describes him arsenic her duplicate who was conscionable calved 30 years aboriginal successful 2005.

‘Our personalities are precise similar,’ she told Hello! magazine.

‘I’m truthful arrogant of the benignant young antheral he’s turned into.’

However, it’s not been without its challenges. On apical of motherhood, Alison has been grinding to go the TV prima that she is known arsenic today.

Reaching this constituent of being astatine the helm of This Morning, The Great British Bake Off and For the Love of Dogs has not travel without sacrifices astatine home. She publicly apologised to Aidan for being distant from him during his childhood.

‘I’ve sacrificed a batch of clip with my lad and I conscionable privation to accidental to my son, I emotion you truthful much, son,’ she said portion accepting a Role Model grant astatine the Multicultural Business and Community Champion Awards in Birmingham.

‘And I’m truthful atrocious I haven’t ever been there, but I’ll beryllium honorable with you, the crushed I was doing it was lone for you.’

Their narration has lone got person implicit the years and present that Aidan is simply a afloat grown-up Alison, who is successful a narration with David Putman, says he’s go much opinionated astir the men she dates.

While appearing on Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe’s podcast Parenting Hell, Alison said: ‘It’s much difficult, helium is much verbal present that helium is older. He’ll privation to cognize who this idiosyncratic is and he’ll privation to conscionable them.

‘It’s a batch harder. He’ll wanna cognize that this feline is treating maine well.

‘The idiosyncratic who I americium seeing astatine the moment, helium is connected his Instagram and is similar “yeah I similar him, he’s not excessively successful your face”. Aidan is connected it.’

His support is instrumental successful Alison’s relationships continuing. ‘Normally Aidan hates anybody I date, virtually conscionable not interested.

‘And you conscionable cognize astatine that point, if Aidan doesn’t similar them, this isn’t gonna work. There are moments wherever I think, ‘who’s the genitor here?!’

’It’s bully though due to the fact that I ever consciousness similar there’s idiosyncratic determination looking implicit me, protecting me.’ Luckily, David, 27, has won implicit Aidan.

Aidan Hammond’s euphony career

Being the lad of 1 of the UK’s biggest TV stars means that Aidan has been connected the radar of execs for a while. In 2023, helium was said to person been approached by Love Island producers, but ‘turned down the offer’.

Instead Aidan took a antithetic path, spending his clip focused connected his DJ career.

His debut festival gig was astatine Camp Bestival Dorset successful the summertime of 2024, and of course, supporting him astatine each rotation was Alison.

On the Spin Justice podcast, Aidan was honorable astir however his mum has helped him to scope this constituent of getting a one-hour acceptable astatine the festival attended by 20,000 revellers.

‘Most of my jobs, she’s ever helped maine get the job. She’s enactment my ft successful the doorway and present she’s said “Go on, transportation on,”‘ helium explained.

Although helium is conscionable beginning, the aspiring euphony prima has acceptable up YouTube and Soundcloud accounts to support fans updated with his efforts.

Previously, Aidan had a little taster of his mum’s TV satellite erstwhile helium took connected on Romesh Ranganathan’s quiz amusement Parents’ Evening in November. The sheet amusement sees 3 celebrated faces squad up with their sons, daughters, mums or dads, with their household members past having to find however galore answers to questions their loved 1 mightiness know.

Viewers were amused when Aidan claimed Alison farts astatine the cinema. Alison whitethorn beryllium hoping that Aidan keeps these benignant of confessions (on her behalf) disconnected the TV successful future.

Alison Hammond’s Florida Unpacked

Alison and Aidan are present moving unneurotic connected their biggest associated task truthful acold – a BBC question show.

Former vacation rep Alison and Aidan volition beryllium successful Florida uncovering hidden gems, soaking up sunshine, and sharing the champion fund question tips crossed 10 episodes, with the archetypal being aired tonight.

Full of compliments for Aidan, Alison has said astir the handling of his archetypal large TV job: ‘It was Aidan’s archetypal clip filming, truthful it felt similar I had a enactment acquisition apprentice with me.

‘It was eye-opening to spot however helium approached it, and I realised helium has the aforesaid enactment ethic arsenic maine – aboriginal mornings, precocious nights – helium handled it truly well! I was rather surprised, to beryllium honest. You cognize however teenagers tin be, but helium was great!’

Aidan has repaid the compliments up of the archetypal occurrence by celebrating Alison’s professionalism.

‘I learned that she’s really a nonrecreational astatine her job. I utilized to deliberation presenting was easy, like, “Oh yeah, she conscionable stands determination and talks.”’ helium admitted.

A amazed Aidan added: ‘But past I really had to bash it myself, and I realised, “Wow, she’s truly bully astatine this!”‘

Alsion Hammond’s Florida Unpacked begins connected BBC Two and iPlayer from Monday 27 January astatine 6.30pm. All 10 episodes are disposable to watercourse now.

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