Alison Hammond mocked by ITV co-star with brutal 8-word weight jibe

Judi Love wanted to clarify to the audience of Ealing Comedy Festival that she's not Alison Hammond - despite being mistaken for her by everyone from taxi drivers to dates she'd just slept with - and she chose an especially brutal way to emphasise the difference. Bounding onto the stage on Thursday, the Loose Women star introduced herself with the words: "For those of you who don't know me, I want to clarify my name's Judi Love! Some of you are looking like, 'Oh my God, Alison [Hammond's] lost a lot of weight!'" She added: "I love her, but I'm not that big," as she added: "Child, I'm not her, okay?!"

She went on to explain that she'd even been described as "Alison Love" by a driver who'd been picking her up "every single day", and that when she moved to leafy Richmond - a riverside district on the outskirts of London - locals had whispered to each other about "Alison Hammond moving in". Judi is trimmer than her fellow ITV star, currently best known for This Morning and For The Love Of Dogs, who at her heaviest weighed almost 30 stone. She has since lost 11 and a half stone, while Judi made a more modest weight loss of one and a half stone while training for Strictly Come Dancing back in 2021.

However, despite their differences in size, the Alison comparisons just keep coming - and Judi groaned: "This has happened many times - even one guy on a date! I had sex with him and then he said, 'ALISON!'"

The crowd broke into laughter, as she continued with a spirited conversation about her disastrous love life since then.

She confessed that she is currently "so single" - so much so that a vibrator she'd left wrapped in her bedsheets had surprised her by "falling out of the dryer".

"Do you know how single you have to be for that to happen? [The dating pool] is so bad out there, to the point that I now find out I'm being attracted to red flags," she quipped.

The 45-year-old TV personality added that for the over 40s, a "toxic" man was merely seen as someone who'd "lived life", rather than someone to avoid at all costs.

"[It means] you've got a little bit of wisdom in your soul. Toxic at 45 would be good credit - I can work with that!" she joked.

Later, there was a tense moment, with the audience breaking into boos when she revealed that she'd met King Charles and other members of the Royal Family during a Commonwealth Diaspora reception at Buckingham Palace.

"Ethically I don't know if I want to go," she confided, suggesting she might be "upset" by displays of wealth, before adding she'd had a change of heart as her parents were "royalists".