Popular British TV presenter Alison Hammond has been riding high publicly after she was recently named the new co-host of The Great British Bake Off, but outside the public eye, she was reportedly dealing with a blackmailing scheme. Now someone has reportedly been arrested for the crime, and details are starting to go public in the British press for the first time.
The alleged blackmailer has not been publicly identified, but according to The Mirror, he’s thirty-six and was reportedly friends with the forty-eight-year-old Hammond. Over the last year, the outlet claims the popular TV presenter bought the man a car and other gifts, but at some point, he allegedly started threatening to ruin her career if she didn’t spend more money. The Sun claims the alleged blackmailer has issues with drugs and she once tried to pay for his rehab, only to be taken advantage of. She allegedly shelled out thousands of pounds over the course of nearly a year before a recent message demanding another thirty-five hundred pounds allegedly pushed her to go to the police.
