This Morning’s Alison Hammond in hysterics as Prue Leith fails in cooking demo and admits ‘this wasn’t the best idea!’

ALISON Hammond was near successful hysterics arsenic Prue Leith's cooking conception spectacularly failed connected today's This Morning.

Prue's effort to show a speedy avocado hack connected the ITV amusement didn’t rather spell to plan, leaving hosts Alison, 49, and Dermot O’Leary, 51, successful fits of laughter.

The Bake Off judge, 84, was showing the presenters however to usage a grill rack to chopped an avocado, but things rapidly took a crook for the worse.

Placing the grate implicit the effect connected a chopping board, Prue started her demo but instantly spotted a flaw.

Adjusting her setup, she admitted, "Oh actually, I request to bash it connected a sheet truthful there's abstraction underneath."

A skeptical Dermot questioned the avocado's ripeness, to which Prue replied: "It’s not rather ripe enough, but I deliberation it'll be... shove it down similar that."

Narrating her ain mishap aft being near with an almost-squashed avocado, she admitted: "Well, that’s not... it’s a spot of a mess."

Alison, who works with Prue arsenic big of the Channel 4 show, couldn’t incorporate her laughter, exclaiming, "It's level similar a pancake. It’s similar a greenish pancake!"

Prue confessed with a laugh, "It’s not precisely beautiful," portion Dermot quipped: "Smashed avocado with immoderate eggs, we’re in!"

When Alison tried the method herself, the result was adjacent worse.

Prue couldn’t assistance but joke, "I’m not definite this was the champion thought successful the world."

Viewers soon took to X, formerly Twitter, to stock their thoughts, with 1 writing, "This point is disastrous," and different adding, "Or… conscionable usage a weapon similar a mean person."

A 3rd pointed retired Prue's method mightiness not beryllium the astir time-effective, aft all, saying: "Just other washing up."

It's been a tumultuous week for This Morning, with exertion Martin Frizell announcing his departure connected Wednesday.

News of his departure comes conscionable 2 months aft erstwhile presenter Phillip Schofield described the mercurial writer arsenic a “s***” - dragging up 2 years of turbulent toxicity.

Although ITV volition externally advertise the £155,000 a twelvemonth role, existent Associate Editor Vivek Sharma is heavy tipped to onshore the coveted gig.

Last night, a root said: “This truly is the extremity of an epoch for daytime telly; immense changes are afoot.

“The amusement has ne'er genuinely recovered from Holly and Phil’s departure, and this is simply a accidental to determination connected from the aged defender and bring successful caller faces to detoxify the marque erstwhile and for all.

“The anticipation is that a fewer tweaks present and determination tin marque a immense quality - with presenters added to the roster, and a fewer breathtaking caller features. 

“Martin was mercurial and merciless erstwhile helium was angry, and a fewer radical were beauteous frightened of him.

“Martin was aged school, but helium was besides hugely talented, hands-on, hard-working, and dedicated to the moving of that ship.

“His strengths, however, were that helium was a full maverick and perfectly fearless. 

“Whilst officially ITV volition unfastened the occupation up to outer candidates, the feeling is Vivek is simply a shoo-in - he’s brilliant, young, talented and conscionable what the amusement needs to freshen-up and prosecute with a TikTok generation. He is bursting with ideas.

“But helium knows not to reinvent the wheel, and alienate This Morning halfway assemblage of housewives and young mums - but helium volition bash it his way.”