Overview

• In a Guardian interview, Hammond rejects calls to be removed from ITV’s For the Love of Dogs and responds to suggestions of a Pete Wicks replacement with “Deal with it.”
• She argues she appears to be everywhere partly because it is still uncommon to see a Black woman in several high-profile presenting roles, noting that Davina McCall or Ant and Dec face fewer such complaints.
• She stresses professional control over her workload, saying she is good at declining projects and turns down about 10 offers a day.
• Addressing a viral TikTok complaining about her ubiquity, she says the woman is entitled to her opinion and that such criticism keeps her grounded.
• Reports also reference abusive online comments, including a post from a 77-year-old calling her “repulsive,” which she answered with a single-word reply: “Wow.”