Alison Hammond has shared how she was 'traumatised' by failing to make a dent in her spiralling debts before finding fame.
The bubbly Brummy, 47, admitted her finances were in a dire disarray as she had debts of £3,000 which she had been unable to shift on her 'normal job' wage.
Speaking on Jessie Ware's Table Manners podcast Alison recalled: "I was in Tunisia, repping, and everyone was reading the papers about Brian Dowling - he had won Big Brother.