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Alison Hammond’s new travel show slammed by viewers as she bags herself and ‘nepo baby son’ a free holiday
ALISON Hammond’s new travel show is slammed by viewers as she bags herself and her ‘nepo baby son’ a free holiday.
The This Morning star, 49, headed to sunny Florida for her new series on BBC Two and was joined by her son, Aidan.
Titled Florida Unpacked, the series is a new ten-part show for BBC Two and is a big step away from Alison’s usual daytime presenting.
The series follows Alison and Aidan as they make their way around the very best that Florida has to offer on an affordable budget.
In each episode the pair heads off the beaten track in order to find some hidden gem activities during their epic adventure.
In tonight’s much anticipated first episode, viewers saw the mother and son rent a motorhome to explore Florida’s Silver Springs.
The pair then kayaked across the dazzlingly clear waters and soaked up the secret retro charm of 50s and 60s drive-in culture.
As they took a peek behind the curtain at a buzzing Ocala drive-in cinema, the pair seemed delighted with their experience but viewers back home weren’t so happy.
Fans were angered at the pair for using a TV show to get what they saw as a free holiday and asked who is paying for all this?
One viewer raged: ” Why the f@#k are us licence payers paying for it ?”
Another said: “”Alison Hammond on a free holiday to Florida to see if it’s accessible to poor people. Do p*** off. @BBC #floridaunpacked.”
“Nope … can’t watch this. Talentless, irritating, constantly screeching … #AlisonHammond and her son blagging Free holiday.
“There is 15 episodes of this sh^^ #FloridaUnpacked” said another.
Another exclaimed: “I can imagine ITV spaffing a load of cash on sending Alison Hammond away, but perhaps not the BBC and yet another celeb whose parents or offspring have managed to blag their way on to TV for no reason whatsoever…”
“I see Alison Hammond is bagged herself and her nepo baby a free holiday in the form of her new tv show. #AlisonHammondsFloridaUnpacked,” someone else raged.
Speaking previously about the programme, Alison said: “Travel is in my blood. For years I worked as a tour rep following in the footsteps of my dear mum.
Alison Hammond's rise to stardom
SHE graces our televisions every Friday, as she co-hosts This Morning with Dermot O'Leary.
But just how did Alison Hammond first find fame?
2002 – Alison competed in Big Brother, and was the second housemate to be evicted . She won over viewers with moments such as when she broke the table in the garden by jumping up and down on it.
It was this year that she also started presenting for This Morning in a guest capacity.
2003 – Alison had a small acting role on TV drama Doctors.
2004 – This was the year that Alison returned to reality television, starring in shows including Celebrity Fit Club and Celebrity Stars in their Eyes – for which she performed as Nina Simone.
2010 – After several years of presenting gigs and reality show appearances, Alison was signed up to appear on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! She came in 10th place.
2014 – This was a busy year for Alison as she competed on both Celebrity Masterchef and Strictly Come Dancing, coming in 10th in the latter.
2020 – Alison appeared on The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off – her first, but not last, time in the famous tent.
2021 – Alison co-hosted This Morning for three episodes alongside Phillip Schofield.
It was later announced that Alison and Dermot would be replacing Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford as presenters of This Morning on a Friday.
2023 – Alison was announced as the new co-host of The Great British Bake Off, replacing Matt Lucas to present alongside Noel Fielding.
2024 – Following the death of Paul O’Grady, Alison stepped in as host of For The Love of Dogs.
2025 – An eight-part series titled Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend will premiere on BBC one next year, as she spends 48 hours with a celebrity in a bid to really get to know them.
“This meant I was lucky and got to visit Florida from a young age.
“I was so captivated by America’s culture, food, TV shows, and films and some of my happiest memories are tied to those first formative trips to the U.S.
“We managed to budget our way to a place that totally captured our hearts… and now I can’t wait to share Florida’s best kept secrets with you all.”
Alison Hammond’s Florida Unpacked airs weekdays from Mon 27 Jan at 6.30pm on BBC2.
Tearful David Coote apologises for calling Jurgen Klopp ‘a German c**t’ insisting he ‘wasn’t sober’ during rant
DAVID Coote has made a tearful apology to ex-Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp and “anybody who I’ve offended by my actions”.
The now-axed referee made headlines worldwide when footage emerged of him calling Klopp a “German c***”.
Emotional Coote admits that he “was not sober” at the time but knew he was being recorded during Covid in 2020 when social distancing meant large gatherings were forbidden.
The official has also declared in video chats that Liverpool “will not win the Premier League” this season.
And he branded the Reds’ defender and Scotland captain Andy Robertson a “Scottish p****.”
Coote said: “I want to apologise to anybody who I’ve offended by my actions.
“I recognise that they fell well short of standards that are expected of a top level referee and I deeply regret saying what I said.”
He went on: “That video has been with somebody for more than four years.
“I’d forgotten it existed and I was sitting waiting for my car to be serviced and then received a call to say that it had surfaced on social media and I was devastated.”
Remorseful Coote added: “I deeply regret that I found myself in that position. The comments are not reflective of my views of any of the individuals concerned or my wider views in general.”
Reflecting on his row with Klopp — who criticised him after he had refereed a 1-1 draw between Liverpool and Burnley in July 2020 — Coote said: “The football industry is really tough for everybody who’s involved.
“And everybody — when the pressure is on and results don’t go in the direction that they’d like — finds themselves in survival mode to a large extent.
“Referees are an easy target because there’s no accountability [on the abuse]. Refs are used as scapegoats. I get that, and I don’t blame anybody for that.”
The experienced match official added: “The difficulty with refereeing is that we have no way of expressing our emotion in the moment.
“We have to hide our emotions. I’d be a pretty terrible referee if I reacted emotionally to what’s being said or what’s being chanted around the ground. We don’t have the emotional release of scoring a goal or winning the game.
“I’m a human being who made a mistake in a moment that I now deeply regret.”
'IT'S A VERY BRAVE MOVE'
By Amal Fashanu, niece of Justin who runs foundation in his name
“IT is very brave for anyone to come out, but more so for someone in the public eye.
“This will affect David Coote and is a big step but it should have less of an effect that in would on a player. It’s not the same level of fame.”
Amal, whose former Norwich striker uncle killed himself in 1998 after becoming the first top-flight player to come out, added: “We’d love to chat to him at the foundation.
“We’d be there to offer any support and counselling.
“We also help people with mental health problems and would be there for him if that was an issue.
“There’s still something very wrong at the top of football.
“We’re in 2025, when everyone is supposedly liberal and accepting, yet something is stopping these men accepting who they are. Football is still failing in this regard.”
I’ve had deaths threats after games with thugs hoping my mum dies of AIDS & I end up paralysed, says ex-ref David Coote
DAVID Coote last night revealed the sickening abuse aimed at match officials — including death threats and warped internet trolls saying they hope his mum dies of AIDS in her sleep.
Sacked Coote called for TV pundits to stop “whipping up” fans into a frenzy against referees amid “hysterical” analysis, claiming messages he has received from crazed supporters added to his spiral into cocaine abuse.
Weeping, the 42-year-old, who described some messages as “abhorrent”, told The Sun: “I’ve received death threats during my career.
“I’ve needed an accelerated response tag on my home address for me to speak to the police in an emergency.
“I’ve also had messages from irate supporters hoping that I had an accident on the way home from a game.
“They didn’t just want me to die but to be paralysed, so I’d suffer every day for the rest of my life.
“Other messages included hoping that my mum dies of AIDS overnight.
“People target referees without accountability on social media, and at matches.
“I can’t see how that is acceptable.
“There is standard abuse on a regular basis, but some crosses any line of acceptability.
“I’m sorry people are talking about me for the wrong reasons.
“I’m not here looking for sympathy.
“I just want to say that I am a human being that’s made mistakes.
“I’m paying the consequences.
“I’m taking responsibility for making those mistakes.
“I hope that others in my situation seek help in the right ways as I’m now trying to do.”
Coote revealed that at the elite level of the game it’s not always a stadium full of 60,000 fans screaming ‘the referee’s a w*****’ that causes the most upset.
He said: “We have an earpiece in, and are on comms.
“We’re constantly talking to each other and listening to players on the field, so actually the noise in the stadium doesn’t impact us very much.
“But what is more impactful is the things you hear and see that are individual — the targeted abuse.
“There are fans who decide to hang around for an hour or two after a game to individually abuse us, hanging over the barriers as we leave the stadium.
“And there are those who take to social media.
“Some refs might not be on social media, but it still has an impact on friends and family.
“Some of the things said are abhorrent.
“That has more impact on us as individuals, and as people.”
He went on: “Every official that takes the pitch up and down the country from a local playing field to the Premier League is a human being, not just a referee.
“They have feelings.
“They may not show them, but it will impact them when they’re receiving abuse.
“I’ve struggled and I’ve tried to get through it in my own way and made poor decisions in doing so.
“I hope that others make better decisions and that referees are given an easier ride in the levels of scrutiny, and levels of abuse that come in their direction.
“I hope this shines a light on the impact it can have on a person.”
Coote spoke out as fellow referee Michael Oliver, his partner Laura and two-year-old daughter, received death threats after Saturday’s Wolves versus Arsenal Premier League clash, when he sent off Gunner Myles Lewis-Skelly.
Fans said they knew where he lived and were going to brick his windows.
Three weeks ago, after Liverpool’s 2-2 draw with Manchester United, someone said they were going to blow up Oliver’s car with his family inside it.
Coote said of the menaces towards his friend: “This isn’t the first time this season we’ve heard of such abuse.
“Sadly, it won’t be the last.
“I know only too well the toll these appalling and frightening threats can have, but you have no option other than to take it.
“Referees have no right of reply, while those who make the threats face no action.
“It has to change.”
Referees have no right of reply, while those who make the threats face no action. It has to change
David Coote
Despite his fall from grace, Coote is keen to draw attention to how tough refereeing can be.
He pointed out that officials are increasingly forced into “centre stage”.
In the January 8 Carabao Cup semi-final between Spurs and Liverpool, Stuart Attwell became the first ref in England to announce a VAR decision in the stadium when he explained why Dominic Solanke’s late goal for Spurs was ruled out.
Coote said: “The difficulty with being a referee is that the concept of resilience is key to doing what we do.
“That means the opposite of resilience is a vulnerability or a weakness.
“If I’ve got to be resilient to do the job then showing weakness and vulnerability immediately casts doubt over the ability to do that role.
“I hope others who are finding things difficult are given the support they need to be able to show weakness and vulnerability because it’s impossible to keep up the facade over the course of time.”
Coote’s sacking triggered change in the PGMOL, the referees’ governing body, including providing psychological support.
He said officials had had the chance to have their say on “what could be done differently”.
He said he was grateful for the support of colleagues, the PGMOL’s Howard Webb and Danielle Every and well-wishers in the street.
The support has helped me get through some really tough times
David Coote
He said: “The support has helped me get through some really tough times.
“My episodes hit the whole refereeing community hard because it showed just how accountable everybody in the game is.”
Coote, a fan of League Two Notts County, began his route to top-level officiating by running the line for his dad and uncle’s Sunday team aged 14.
He was urged to take a referees’ course and progressed through the levels of the game until he was invited to become a full-time Championship official.
The Premier League followed and, a few years later, he added the VAR skill set.
He said: “Nobody really prepares you for moving through each level and then arriving in the Premier League, which is like a goldfish bowl.
“You don’t apply for promotion, people just take a judgment on your performances and you as a person, and give you the opportunity at a new level.
“All of us who operate at the top levels of the game, we’re just normal guys, football fans who’ve been fortunate enough to be selected and move through the levels.
“I’ve been really fortunate as a football fan to have seen the great players at such close quarters.
“But there is a trade-off.
“We don’t get an easy ride of it.”
Coote said there’s no a simple fix to make football genuinely inclusive.
He said: “It’s a difficult world to work in.
“To be ‘me’ in football wasn’t easy.
“I didn’t want to draw unnecessary attention to myself and I understand why others wouldn’t want to do the same.
“I’ve no doubt that if somebody did come out there would be a lot of support but also they’d be opening themselves up to online abuse and prejudicial views that have no place in the society we live in.
“It’s much more than a football problem.
“It’s more of a society problem, particularly given how tribal football fans can be in a win-at-all-costs game.”
Despite the scandal, Coote hopes to remain in the game and is keen to play a role speaking out for refs in the media.
For now, he is training for a marathon in May to raise funds for research into motor neurone disease, which his uncle has.
He said: “I’ll be looking to make sure my health and wellbeing is in the best possible place.”
IT’S VERY BRAVE MOVE
By AMAL FASHANU, Niece of Justin who runs foundation in his name
“IT is very brave for anyone to come out, but more so for someone in the public eye.
“This will affect David Coote and is a big step but it should have less of an effect that in would on a player.
“It’s not the same level of fame.”
Amal, whose former Norwich striker uncle killed himself in 1998 after becoming the first top-flight player to come out, added: “We’d love to chat to him at the foundation.
“We’d be there to offer any support and counselling.
“We also help people with mental health problems and would be there for him if that was an issue.
“There’s still something very wrong at the top of football.
“We’re in 2025, when everyone is supposedly liberal and accepting, yet something is stopping these men accepting who they are.
“Football is still failing in this regard.”
From snorting coke to moaning he was ‘too big’ to ref Coventry, nine moments in David Coote’s downfall
TWO days after his Klopp comments went viral, The Sun revealed on November 13 Coote snorted cocaine in a video taken on July 6 while he was officiating at the Euros.
COOTE: “The drugs happened on an entirely ad-hoc basis. It fills me with a huge sense of shame to sit here and to say that I took that route.”
1.
2.
COOTE said in video chats table toppers Liverpool “will not win the Premier League”.
COOTE: “I guess I’m a human being who made a mistake in a moment I now deeply regret.”
3.
THE ref branded the Reds defender Andy Robertson a “Scottish p****.”
COOTE: “I certainly don’t think that. Everybody who takes to the football field is full of emotion. When we’re involved in the game, things will be said that people don’t mean.
“I’m pretty sure there’s been plenty of players or managers that have said things about me they wouldn’t sit here and say they believe. The same is true of us as match officials.”
4.
HE said Everton’s Goodison Park was the worst place to referee, due to the fans “shouting abuse so close to the pitch”.
COOTE: “It’s certainly not the worst place to officiate. Each ground, depending on how the result goes, can be just as difficult as any other.
“So there’s no particular ground that’s more difficult than the other because it’s all really circumstance dependent.”
5.
COOTE said he hates officiating at Bournemouth games because it is “too far away”.
COOTE: “We’re asked to go north, south, east and west, and all over Europe.
“There’s teams of officials that have been as far as Kazakhstan to do games. I was sent to Indonesia, so distance travel is never an issue.”
6.
THE ref moaned he was “too big” to have to ref at Coventry’s ground for their Championship clash against Oxford Utd on August 16.
COOTE: “The Championship is a fantastic league and my experience of Coventry and all of the other games in the league have been really good ones — some of the most exciting football you’ll get to see.”
7.
COOTE arranged a drugs party during Tottenham’s Carabao Cup win over Manchester City on October 30.
During the interval he messaged his pal to say: “Hope you’re getting ready for me.”
COOTE: “It never happened. These kinds of messages were among the behaviours I engaged with in order to escape.
“It was almost like a different me and it’s something I really regret doing.
“Clearly now I regret entering into those conversations.
“I’ve paid the price for having them and that’s been a heavy one from a career and emotional perspective.”
8.
AT the centre of an FA betting probe after he discussed giving a yellow card to Leeds’ Ezgjan Alioski before a 2019 match against West Brom.
He messaged a pal: “I hope you backed as discussed.”
COOTE: “I can categorically say that I’ve only ever done my best when I’ve gone onto the field of play.”
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SACKED by the PGMOL.
COOTE: “I have nearly 30 years experience of refereeing and I understood the implications of the situation I found myself in and the position the PGMOL were in.”
IT’S VERY BRAVE MOVE
By AMAL FASHANU, Niece of Justin who runs foundation in his name
“IT is very brave for anyone to come out, but more so for someone in the public eye.
“This will affect David Coote and is a big step but it should have less of an effect that in would on a player. It’s not the same level of fame.”
Amal, whose former Norwich striker uncle killed himself in 1998 after becoming the first top-flight player to come out, added: “We’d love to chat to him at the foundation.
“We’d be there to offer any support and counselling.
“We also help people with mental health problems and would be there for him if that was an issue.
“There’s still something very wrong at the top of football.
“We’re in 2025, when everyone is supposedly liberal and accepting, yet something is stopping these men accepting who they are.
“Football is still failing in this regard.”
I’m gay but hid my sexuality in macho football world…it led to behaviour I deeply regret, says shamed ex-ref David Coote
SACKED referee David Coote has revealed he turned to cocaine over fear of coming out in the “macho world” of the Premier League.
Tearful Coote said he took coke to “escape” after being forced to hide being gay.
Coote also admitted he was “not sober” in his rant at ex-Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, and got abuse and death threats as a ref.
The sacked 42-year-old told how living a lie led him down paths that eventually torpedoed his career.
Coote told The Sun: “I felt a deep sense of shame during my teenage years in particular.
“I didn’t come out to my parents until I was 21. I didn’t come out to my friends until I was 25.
“My sexuality isn’t the only reason that led me to be in that position. But I’m not telling an authentic story if I don’t say that I’m gay, and that I’ve had real struggles dealing with hiding that.
“I hid my emotions as a young ref and I hid my sexuality as well — a good quality as a referee but a terrible quality as a human being.
“And that’s led me to a whole course of behaviours.”
He says he has been in an “incredibly dark place” since news emerged of his drug-taking at Euro 2024. Without the support of family and colleagues, he added, “I’m not sure I’d be here today”.
Giving his first interview since the scandal broke, he said he hoped to help break down the “macho world” of Premier League football.
He added: “I’ve had issues around my self-esteem — and that relates to my sexuality. I’m gay and I’ve struggled with feeling proud of being ‘me’ over a long period of time.
“I have received deeply unpleasant abuse during my career as a ref and to add my sexuality to that would have been really difficult.
“There’s a lot to be done throughout football and more widely in society with regard to discrimination.
“I didn’t want to be that person that was putting their head above the parapet to be shot at, given the abuse we all get as a referee in any event.”
Coote was suspended last October after footage showed him calling then-Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp a “c***”.
The Sun then revealed a film of him snorting powder at last summer’s Euros in Germany.
We also told how he tried to arrange a drugs party during Spurs’ Carabao Cup win over Man City on October 30.
Coote was then the subject of a new FA probe over allegedly issuing a yellow card to order — before he was eventually fired.
In an emotional interview, he says a “pressure cooker” of suppressed emotion, combined with a punishing work schedule, left him wanting to “escape” with cocaine.
He said: “It’s not something I was reliant on day by day, week by week, month by month.
“I’ve had long periods where I’ve not used it — but it was one of the escape routes I had. Just getting away from the stresses, the relentlessness of the job. It fills me with a huge sense of shame to say that I took that route.”
He recalled: “In 2023 I lost my mum very suddenly. At the same time my uncle was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. After Covid and the introduction of VAR, six officials were suddenly needed for each game.
“I was selected by Fifa for the U17 World Cup in Indonesia, as well as the Euros and Olympics last year.
“It meant that over the course of the 2023-24 season I was involved in more than 90 games — often back to back. At the end of last season I went straight into the Euros and that was incredibly pressurised. I had another tournament coming up immediately — heading to Paris for the Olympics.”
The cocaine footage saw him inhale a 4in line up a US banknote. Another image showed his bank card next to six chopped-up lines.
I’m gay and I have struggled with feeling proud of being ‘me’ over a long period of time
He said: “I don’t recognise myself in the cocaine video. I can’t resonate with how I felt then, but that was me. I was struggling with the schedule and there was no opportunity to stop. And so I found myself in that position — escaping.”
Coote is still being probed after a pal told him he was putting money on Leeds player Ezgjan Alioski getting booked before a 2019 clash against West Brom.
Coote did caution the player and later messaged his friend: “I hope you backed as discussed.” However he told The Sun: “There was no agreement prior to the game. I went and did my job. The player committed a yellow card tackle.”
He added: “I received nothing for it. I’m really disappointed that anything like this has come out because it tarnishes the integrity of the game. And whatever people think of me as a referee, as a human I have always gone out and done my best on the pitch.”
Coote says he was merely trying to “deflect” the pal but admitted: “I wasn’t in a great place, and I was messaging people that in hindsight I shouldn’t have trusted. I was naive.” Coote says he “made some really poor choices and I really wish I could turn back the clock now and do things differently”.
But he said he can instead take responsibility. After seeking therapy, he has kicked his drug habit
Coote said: “I put on this hard exterior. Football became a place where I could go and referee and be engrossed in the game.
“But then I’d come home and it would be more difficult because I’m living a double sense of being.
“To other people who are in my situation, I’d say seek help and talk to somebody because if you bottle it up like I have done it has to come out in some way.”
‘POOR CHOICES’
Coote believes the dramatic events which cost him his beloved job in football has helped him take stock.
He said: “It’s been incredibly tough because I loved the game. I started refereeing when I was 14.
“I’ve found it easier since knowing my fate and being able to re-evaluate what’s important to me.
“To spend some quality time with family and friends, and take time to make sure I’m in the best place to move forwards.”
'IT'S A VERY BRAVE MOVE'
By Amal Fashanu, niece of Justin who runs foundation in his name
“IT is very brave for anyone to come out, but more so for someone in the public eye.
“This will affect David Coote and is a big step but it should have less of an effect that in would on a player. It’s not the same level of fame.”
Amal, whose former Norwich striker uncle killed himself in 1998 after becoming the first top-flight player to come out, added: “We’d love to chat to him at the foundation.
“We’d be there to offer any support and counselling.
“We also help people with mental health problems and would be there for him if that was an issue.
“There’s still something very wrong at the top of football.
“We’re in 2025, when everyone is supposedly liberal and accepting, yet something is stopping these men accepting who they are. Football is still failing in this regard.”
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