Holly Willoughby has reached out to her ex-This Morning co-stars as she thanked them amid the ongoing Phillip Schofield row.
The 43-year-old has been at the centre of an ongoing scandal which erupted in May last year, when her former pal Phillip was sacked from the ITV daytime show over an illicit affair with a much younger colleague. Holly and Phil’s friendship effectively ended when the mother-of-three revealed that he had lied to her – and ITV bosses – about the relationship, and since then, there has been no love lost between the pair.
Many of Phil’s former This Morning colleagues have distanced themselves from the veteran TV presenter, but in recent months some famous faces reportedly reached out to support him, including Joanna Lumley, who encouraged Phil when his comeback show Cast Away debuted on Channel 5. While Holly has kept her distance from Phil, and refused to be drawn into the ongoing row surrounding the former friends, she has reached out to her former This Morning co-stars after she abruptly left the ITV daytime show in October last year.
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In a sweet post on Instagram, she shared a snap of husband and wife duo John Torode and Lisa Faulkner’s new cookbook, John and Lisa’s Kitchen. Holly had been sent an advance copy of the new book, and proudly posed with it in her kitchen, hinting that she has reconciled with her former This Morning co-stars.
Holly abruptly left the show after 14 years of presenting the hit show in October last year, and her exit from This Morning left fans heartbroken after months of scandal that surrounded the much-loved programme. “To everyone who has ever worked on the show over the years, thank you so so much. This is such a difficult goodbye, you are incredible and I forever will be proud of what we’ve done together. Thank you to everyone at ITV for being supportive. To every guest who has sat on our sofa, thank you,” she wrote in her emotional statement.
“Most of all, thank you to the wonderful viewers. You’ve been so loyal, so supportive and the very best company every day. Richard and Judy said, ‘We only look after this show, it will always belong to the viewers.’ It’s been an honour to just be part of its story and I know this story has many chapters left to go. Sadly, however, I now feel I have to make this decision for me and my family,” Holly continued. “I will miss you all so much.”
Her exit from the show did little to temper any resentment from her ex-pal Phil, who admitted he sent Holly a grovelling message after news of his affair emerged, but she ignored it. In one episode of his Cast Away reality series on Channel 5, Phil took aim at “three s***s” at ITV who he claimed had a hand in his downfall, with many speculating that Holly was one of the unnamed trio.
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