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Tina Campbell

Alison Hammond ‘engaged to secret boyfriend Ben Hawkins after two years of dating’

Alison Hammond is reportedly set to walk down the aisle after getting engaged to her secret boyfriend.

The This Morning presenter, 48, has been dating gardener Ben Hawkins for almost two years, with the pair only pictured together for the first time earlier this week.

Now, Hammond’s future father-in-law Colin Hawkins, 72, has claimed that the couple are engaged as he praised her as the “nicest woman we’ve ever met”.

Speaking to MailOnline, Colin said: “I do know they have both proposed to one another but there are no rings that I know of.’

The Standard has contacted a representative for Alison Hammond for comment.

Alison Hammond is believed to have been dating gardener Ben Hawkins for two years (PA)

Hammond is said to have fallen for Ben after originally employing him to tend to her garden at her West Midlands home.

While the pair have kept their romance out of the spotlight, former Big Brother star Hammond has previously confirmed that there is “someone special” in her life.

She told My Weekly magazine: “There’s someone special and if he wants to pop the question, he can pop away.”

Opening up further about her relationship on a podcast, Hammond - who was previously married to cab driver Noureddine Boufaied, with whom she shares one son - said: “You’ve got to be confident haven’t you? When you see someone and you think, ‘that is my person’, you’ve got to go for it.

“You can’t let that person go. When I see someone, I think ‘that is my person’.”

The host asked: “Like love at first sight vibes? Was yours love at first sight?

“A little bit yeah,” Hammond said, before adding: “I don’t think it was love at first sight on their front...”

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