Alison Hammond had This Morning viewers in fits as she appeared to stumble over Ulrika Jonsson’s name.
The presenter seemed to make the slip-up during a segment on weather girls on Thursday’s instalment of the ITV show (February 8), which saw her chatting to Ulrika about her days on TV-am. Alison introduced the Gladiators star and was talking about how reading the weather launched her career, and viewers are convinced she said “Eureka” or even “Yulerika”.
Several flocked to X to have a giggle about the gaffe, with one teasing: “Another Alison clanger.”
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“Yulerika?!” asked another baffled fan. “Eureka?” posted someone else, adding: “Her name is Ulrika, Alison! For crying out loud.” “Never knew her name was Eureka,” quipped another viewer.
Ulrika, 56, also talked about how she got her big break and how she ended up being a bit “obsessed” with the weather. “I was about 21 at the time and I had been working as a secretary at the television company,” she said. “I had done auditions to become a children’s presenter. Didn’t go too well, playing my guitar… say no more.
“And then I did a weather audition which was pretty awful and then they asked me to come back and do another one. I spent three months going to the London Weather Centre just learning about the weather, which I then became slightly obsessed with!
“It’s such a big thing for the British people. It’s massive, you can’t pass anybody without talking about the weather.”
She went on: “When I was doing the weather it was talking about what you were wearing. We had a boss who believed in eternal sunshine so we had to wear bright pink, bright yellow, encouraged to go on sunbeds and have shoulder pads and bouffant hair. We would all be sacked today!”
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Ulrika went on to become a huge TV star in the 90s with shows like Gladiators and Shooting Stars, and This Morning host Alison commented on how she got a huge amount of attention from the press and was always in the headlines at the time.
Agreeing, Ulrika said: “I think it was probably just because I was Swedish and blonde, and that was quite unusual.”
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