Allison Langdon as you’ve never seen her

“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.”

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.

“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.

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.”