Holly Willoughby returns to This Morning with Josie Gibson and the TV personality opened up about her recent controversy with her former co-worker, Phillip Schofield.
Referring to recent outrage over reports of toxicity on the ITV show, as well as Phillip’s statement confirming that he was romantically involved with a younger man on set, Holly first first told her co-star, “Josie, thanks for being here. Yes! Take a deep breath.”
Looking into the camera, Holly looked worried and her voice trembled as she said, “First, are you okay? I hope you… I guess you probably feel the same way, nervous, shaky, sad, disappointed, and full of questions You, me and everyone here believe that someone was not telling the truth who behaved in a way that they themselves felt they had to leave ITV and give up a career they love.
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“There’s so much to deal with. It’s hard to see the damage it’s doing to their own mental health. I think what unites us all now is the desire to heal for health and well-being. I hope that as we begin this new chapter and return to the warm and magical place the movie is for all of us, we can find strength in each other. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your kind messages.” She then shared a tight hug with Josie, joking that she needed a hug.
Holly returns to This Morning on Monday
Holly’s return to the series comes days after Phillip gave a number of interviews in which he discussed his relationship with the cast, whom he first met as a teenager. a teenager. Denying that Holly was ignorant of the relationship, he explained: “I admire Holly. I’ve always admired her. She’s my TV sister. I don’t have a problem with her at all. I will tell everyone, my family, my friends, my colleagues, ITV-ins, the public, my management company, everyone that I have cheated on: I am extremely sorry. , I want to apologize to him.”
He added that he reached out to Holly and said: “I sent her a WhatsApp the day I made my statement. I said you don’t have to answer, maybe you can’t, but I want to say I’m very, very sorry.”
© Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on the couch this morning
The 61-year-old added to The Sun: “I let her down. I let that whole show down. I let the viewers down. Holly didn’t know and she was one of the news. the first message I sent, it said: ‘I’m so, so I’m sorry I lied to you’ She didn’t reply and I understand why she didn’t. So if anyone contact To associate Holly with this in any way, it’s completely, completely untrue.”
Holly only spoke about Phillip’s relationship news once via Instagram, writing: “It took time to process yesterday’s news. When the reports first came out about the relationship, I was direct. then asked Phil if it was true and was told no. It was very painful to find out that it was a lie.”
© Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock The pair have been best friends since Holly joined the show in 2009.
The star took a two-week break from the breakfast show, admitting that their couple didn’t get along and was on holiday in Portugal with his family. Meanwhile, the show was hosted by Allison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary, who earlier started crying as they discussed Phillip on the show.
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She said: “It’s strange because I still love Phillip Schofield. But what he did was wrong, he admitted it, he apologized. But when [TV] As a family, we are all really struggling to handle things and I don’t know what to say.
© Instagram Holly Willoughby’s first photo after interview with Phillip Schofield
‘But I remember my mother always saying, ‘Use your Bible as a guide to sit in Al’ life, and in the Bible it said ‘innocent people, throw the first stone’. And I don’t want to say anything bad because obviously I’m conflicted.”
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