Alison Hammond has been bursting with pride while celebrating a special occasion for her son.
The This Morning presenter, 49, is a doting mum to Aidan, whom she shares with ex-husband Noureddine Boufaied, a cab driver in Manchester.
Aidan largely stays out of the limelight, excluding the odd appearance on his famous mum’s social media.
One of those rare appearances came on his 19th birthday as daytime royalty Alison posted the sweetest tribute.
Taking to Instagram – where she boasts 1.5million followers – Alison shared a montage of video clips featuring her teen son.
The new For the Love of Dogs host shared snippets of Aidan DJing, as well as throwback images of him go-karting.
‘Just so proud of this young man ! This is 19 ! I love you son 👶🏽 @aidanhammond555’, her caption read.
In the comments, fans and famous pals flocked to wish Aidan well.
‘Happy birthday Aidan…..❤❤’, commented Carol Vorderman.
Michelle Visage echoed: ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY!’
‘Happy birthday Aidan so proud of all your achievements!!!! Have a good one lover!!!!!’, penned Josie Gibson.
Nadia Sawalha said sweetly: ‘Can see his beautiful energy and how much like yours it is ..’
‘Love that gorgeous man! ❤’, added Vanessa Feltz.
Fleur East, Lisa Snowdon, and Stacey Dooley also joined in with birthday messages.
Alison tends to keep her love life away from the cameras, so it’s unclear when she split from Aidan’s dad, Noureddine.
The ITV icon did go on to get engaged to security guard Jamie Savage in 2014, but they split in 2017. She was then dating gardener Ben Hawkins for two years.
She has maintained a very close bond with Aidan throughout his childhood, previously telling Hello! Magazine: ‘Aidan is my twin who was born 30 years after me. Our personalities are very similar.
‘I’m so proud of the kind young man he’s turned into.’
She added that she’s proud of ‘the person he is’ and ‘how kind he is’, describing Aidan as ‘a lovely, chilled-out young man.’
‘When other people come up to me and say, “Your son is so lovely”, I think “Yes, I’ve done my job”.’
Aidan was previously rumoured to be somewhat following in his mum’s TV footsteps by joining the cast of Love Island.
Reports surfaced in spring 2023 that Aidan, who was 18 at the time, had been ‘approached’ by bosses.
However, the rumours were soon shut down.
‘Alison was flattered, but Aidan has turned down the offer,’ MailOnline wrote.
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