DATING apps are not for the faint hearted, which is a lesson This Morning's Alison Hammond learnt the hard way.

The TV star and her co-host Dermot O'Leary were chatting about dating apps after research found men who posted photos of themselves with dogs took relationships more seriously.

Guys who said they were looking for a relationship and whose profiles featured pictures of dogs, tended to be 'more likely to settle down' according to research published in Evolutionary Psychological Science.

Alison took the opportunity to share her horror experience on Tinder which left her matched with blokes she wasn't too keen on.

"Can I just say when I went on a dating app, Tinder…. basically I was swiping the wrong way! So when I liked them, I was like swiping them up," she revealed.

A horrified Dermot put his heads in his hands and asked: "Hang on, if you go left you don't like them?"

"So I was swiping the wrong way so I had all these people going, 'I don't like them!' And they were all the people that I was saying, 'yeah they're fine'," Alison explained.

Dermot then asked: "Did you go on the dates?" and she replied, "No, I didn't, I just came off the app! I was like, 'I can't do it!'"

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Her confession comes days after Alison revealed she wished she'd had a second child with her ex-fiancé.

The TV star admitted that she regrets her decision to go on contraception after her son Aiden was born and wished she'd "banged another baby out".

Speaking to OK! Magazine, the beloved presenter said she has "so much love to give" and in hindsight would have loved five or six children.

She began: "I wish I’d banged out two at the same time. As soon as I had Aidan I went straight on contraception because the doctors encourage you to.

"I wish I hadn’t listened and just banged another baby out then. I’m so disappointed as I always saw myself with five or six kids, not one.

"I’ve got so much love to give, I need six to share it all around."

Alison added that while she would consider adoption, she would only do it with a partner.

The 46-year-old TV star welcomed her now teenage son with her ex Nourddine Boufaied.

The pair were engaged but they never made it down the aisle, with Alison revealing how the relationship began to crumble.

Writing in You’ve Got To Laugh: Stories from a Life Lived to the Full, she shared: "Over time we realised we weren't compatible. He wanted to be in Manchester and I wanted to be in Birmingham."

"Eventually we split up. Nourddine became an every-other-weekend dad, and in time, we saw him as and when he wanted to see Aidan."

The TV star said they are both still friends and have travelled the world together with their son.

Taxi driver Nourddine, she writes, ended up married to a Tunisian woman and now has three children with her.

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