This Morning presenter Alison Hammond opened up about her near panic attack while filming her new show, Florida Unpacked, with her son

Alison Hammond revealed she almost had a panic attack while filming for her show, Florida Unpacked.

The This Morning star, 49, appeared on Friday’s episode of Loose Women with her 19-year-old son, Aidan, to discuss the programme. While talking to Judi Love, Nadia Sawalha, Kaye Adams and Frankie Bridge, she admitted she was terrified while filming the show as she thought she would have a run-in with alligators.

“There is a moment we are doing canoeing actually, and I started having a panic attack,” she explained. “I started having a panic attack because I thought there were alligators and do you know when you get the heebie-jeebies about spiders crawling all over you, and I started having a proper panic attack.

“He [Aidan] looked like the adult that was like ‘Mum, we are going to go back, calm down.’ I looked like a five-year-old.” The dynamic duo’s new travel show, Alison Hammond: Florida Unpacked, will have Alison conquering the sunny climes of Florida with Aidan, providing escapism, a dose of sunshine, and top-notch travel advice to make our winter a little brighter.

She had to be comforted by Aidan ( 
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Elsewhere in the chat, the panel discussed Alison’s stellar TV career, with Judi Love saying: “It’s just lovely as a mum to see you with your son. I remember we did an awards show you mentioned that you were sorry about the times you haven’t been there for Aidan, how did that make you feel when you saw your mum do that speech?”

Back in December, Alison received the Role Model Award at the MBCC in Birmingham. The This Morning star gave a touching speech as she accepted her award – declaring all her hard work had been for Aidan. She said at the time: “I love you so much son and I’m sorry I haven’t always been there but I’ll be honest with you, the reason I was doing it, was only for you.”

As they reminisced about this special memory on Loose Women, Aidan answered, adding: “Yeah it was nice, it was a nice feeling as obviously I know everything she does is for me. It was just nice.” Alison then laughed as she chimed in with: “Be honest… you weren’t bothered that I wasn’t around. You were like: ‘Thank God she’s not here, thank goodness! Oh, she’s coming back again now? Here she is again, oh here we go!'”

Loose Women airs on weekdays on ITV at 12:30pm*