Allison Langdon as you’ve never seen her

The breakfast TV presenter steps outside her comfort zone with Stellar as she reveals her tried and tested hacks to become a morning person, no matter what time you roll out of bed.

There is an unofficial uniform that female journalists wear on television, and it does not include the sequinned mini dress that Today co-host Allison Langdon wore for her fashion shoot with Stellar.

“It was definitely stepping outside my comfort zone,” she says. “But it was nice to do that; to not take it too seriously and just have fun.”

“It was definitely stepping outside my comfort zone,” (Picture: Steven Chee)

“But she looks like she’s having a good time, so she’s inspired me.” (Picture: Steven Chee)

Langdon adds it was her daughter Scout, 2, who inspired her to trust Stellar’s style director Kelly Hume and embrace the colour palette on offer at the shoot. “Scout comes up with the most extraordinary outfits.

If it’s not a bright colour, if it doesn’t have sparkles on it, she won’t wear it. I don’t know where it comes from, because everything in my wardrobe is black,” Langdon says with a laugh.

“But she looks like she’s having a good time, so she’s inspired me.”

While Scout has taught her to be more daring with her clothing choices, the TV presenter says she’s learnt to be a better parent after filming her new show, Parental Guidance (now airing on the Nine Network), which puts 10 different parenting styles to the test.

“Before the show I didn’t even know all the different parenting styles. We were winging it,” she tells Stellar.

“Before the show I didn’t even know all the different parenting styles. We were winging it,” (Picture: Steven Chee)

“It was really important to the entire team that it’s a celebration of all the different types of parenting. It’s an acknowledgement that we are all in this together.” (Picture: Steven Chee)

“I grew up on a farm, so I guess I was raised free-range, but because we now live in the city I’ve become far more helicopter-like. I find myself in the park with the kids and I’ll be saying to them, ‘Be careful. Don’t go too far.’

“But what you’re actually telling them is they’re doing something dangerous as opposed to just letting kids kind of work it out themselves. That’s actually something from this whole experiment I’m trying to change.”

Langdon says the series, which she co-hosts alongside parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson, is confronting, emotive and entertaining.

Alison Langdon features in this Sunday’s Stellar.

While she doesn’t shy away from the heated conversation sparked online when the teaser first dropped last month, Langdon says they are not out to make parents feel bad.

“It was really important to the entire team that it’s a celebration of all the different types of parenting. It’s an acknowledgement that we are all in this together.”

Originally published as Allison Langdon as you’ve never seen her