Alison Hammond

Nobody laughs quite like Alison Hammond. Let's be honest, she turned what should have been fifteen minutes of reality fame into a permanent seat at the top of British television. She got booted out of the Big Brother house after just two weeks back in 2002, but she laughed it off, grabbed a roving microphone, and never looked back. Junket junkies remember her reducing Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling to helpless giggles over miniature glasses of whisky.

Now she's pretty much everywhere that matters on daytime and primetime telly. She locked down the regular Friday gig on This Morning, stepped straight into the famous tent to host The Great British Bake Off, and even picked up Paul O'Grady's mantle at Battersea. People tune in because she feels like your funniest mate down the local, and that kind of warmth is impossible to fake.