Joel Dommett's wife Hannah Cooper tackles health scare as she makes This Morning debut

-Credit: (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for SUS)
-Credit: (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for SUS)


Former model Hannah Cooper stepped into the high-stakes arena of live television with her own fashion segment on ITV show This Morning.

But the style icon, married to Joel Dommett - who is once again hosting the National Television Awards tonight (Wednesday, September 11) tackled a greater hurdle than just the audience watching. She dealt with both directional cues from the earpiece and tackling an intense migraine.

On the couple's Never Have I Ever podcast, Hannah disclosed the added difficulty of her condition during her gig: "I had to ask how to pronounce the names of all these French designers and stuff. It's embarrassing. I'm supposed to look like I know what I'm doing."

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She also confided in her role as a Marie Claire fashion consultant that choosing her outfit for the show was daunting: "The weight of hosting a fashion segment is heavy on the outfit. The nation is looking at me. I get to tell them what they should wear, and if I'm looking like s***, that's not going to give off the vibe.

"All of a sudden I got those white stars that come across the corner of your eyes," she recounted, reports Gloucestershire Live.

She initially thought the headache might be due to the bright studio lights and expected it to subside. She added: "But I was looking at my cards, and I could kind of remember where the clothes were from. But I had to say the prices of everything too. And I just couldn't see the prices because everything had gone white."

In desperation, Hannah had to turn to the production team: "I had to go and ask the producer for a paracetamol, a banana and a Coca-Cola like I was having a hangover. It was not the look that I wanted to give.

"And then I had to ask to turn the lights down."

Hannah Cooper
Hannah Cooper

Despite her ordeal, the on-air performance went fairly smoothly. This isn't the first occasion Hannah has shared the spotlight with her significant other.

During the coronavirus lockdown, Hannah joined her husband as a co-host on the ITV comedy series Home Alone With Joel Dommett, and the pair also appeared together on 'Gogglebox'.