Holly Willoughby is famed for being the sweet blonde on our TV screens presenting the family friendly daytime show This Morning.
But over the years the national sweetheart has had a number of feuds with famous faces including Katie Price and Jodie Marsh.
Most of the feuds have been over silly things, such as former glamour model Jodie gunning after the presenter to then be proved wrong in front of millions of people.
She’s also – although never confirmed by her – had a falling out with her onscreen husband and best friend of 15 years, Phillip Schofield.
Here are Holly’s most tense feuds…
Jodie Marsh despises Holly
Jodie Marsh appeared on This Morning with lipstick all over her teeth
It’s quite obvious Jodie Marsh held a massive grudge against Holly after the former glamour model appeared on This Morning in 2016.
While sat on the sofa chatting to Holly and her co-star Phillip Schofield, Jodie’s pearly white teeth became covered in her purple lipstick.
It remained all over her teeth for the entire interview and fans slammed Holly at the time for not telling Jodie.
After leaving the show, Jodie took to her Instagram account to share a sly dig towards Holly.
Jodie shared a picture of a woman applying lipstick with text written over it.
Holly later shared a video proving she did point it out to the former glamour model
It read: “There is a special place in hell for a woman who does not tell another woman when she had lipstick on her teeth.”
Taking to the caption, Jodie continued her dig at Holly as she wrote: “Someone sent this to me on Twitter. Fitting.”
However, Holly wasn’t having any of it and stood her ground as she hit back at Jodie subtly.
Proving she did in fact point out Jodie’s problem on air, Holly showed a clip from what appeared to be either CCTV or from a cameraman of Holly looking into Jodie’s eyes and mouthing ‘lipstick on teeth’ as Holly pointed to her own teeth.
Taking to her own caption, Holly cheekily commented: “Awkward.”
Katie Price ‘secretly hates her’
Katie Price made an awkward comment about Holly’s weight on air (Image: ITV)
According to sources over the years, Katie Price and Holly have an awkward relationship due to the former glamour model being ‘jealous of her’.
In 2017 Holly hit headlines after she went on a weight loss journey which saw her become a size 10 after many years of being famed for her curves.
It reportedly gave Katie a case of the green-eyed envy monster as sources close to Katie said she couldn’t stop mentioning the star’s weight loss.
Katie even made a comment about the star’s body transformation live on air while on Loose Women.
In the December of that year, Katie appeared via video link on the ITV show as the women dug into Christmas cake.
Holly didn’t know quite what to say following Katie’s comments and just said: “Thanks!” (Image: ITV)
As Katie munched on her cake, she rudely said: “Holly you need some of this, you’ve lost too much weight.”
A reported size 10 Holly looked taken aback by the comment as she grinned and merely said: “Thanks!”
According to The Sun, a friend of Katie’s told them: “Katie thinks Holly needs to boost her curves like she has in the past, she’s not ‘Holly Willoughbooby’ any more.
“She’s even said she needs work on her famous Willoughboobies, just like her, after losing so much weight!”
A month later in January 2018 at the National Television Awards, Katie made it obvious she cared little for Holly.
While Holly and Phil were delivering their acceptance speech after winning an award the camera panned to Katie who looked very bored and was scrolling on her phone.
Katie Hopkins war
One of Holly’s most famous feuds and interviews was with Katie Hopkins (Image: ITV)
As far as feuds go, most celebs have no fear voicing that they are not a fan of the controversial and vile Katie Hopkins.
Her opinions are so nasty even Twitter took action and booted the troll off of its platform.
The feud between Holly and Katie dates back to when Katie appeared on This Morning in 2013 as she sat on the sofa opposite Phil and Holly.
It became one of the pair’s most famous interviews as Holly lost her cool with Katie’s “snobby” opinions as she said she wouldn’t let her kids play with other children whose names she didn’t approve of.
Katie went on a very weird and bizarre rant about how she hates people calling their children names like “Tyler”.
Mother-of-three Katie said on the show: “I think you can tell a great deal from a name.
“For me, there’s certain names that I hear and I think ‘urgh.’
Holly and Phillip had not been presenting the show long when she lost her temper (Image: ITV)
“For me, a name is a shortcut of finding out what class a child comes from and makes me ask: ‘Do I want my children to play with them?’
“When I hear screeched across the playground: ‘Tyler! Come back ‘ere.’ It’s the Tylers, the Charmains the Chantelles, the Chardonnays.”
Katie’s rant only stopped when an irate Holly had enough and told her to stop.
Things then got real awkward for Katie as Holly and Phil made a hilarious point about the hypocritical former Daily Mail columnist.
Katie ranted about how she hates it when people call their children after the names of places to which Holly savagely reminded her Katie’s daughter is called India.
Mother-of-two Holly vowed that, unlike Katie, she would never judge a child by their name, to which Katie reiterated: “I do judge children by their names.”
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“That’s terrible,” said Holly, “listen to what you’re saying – you judge children by their names – its extraordinary.”
Finally losing her cool, the exasperated presenter cut off her guest at the end of the interview by snapping: “Oh stop… stop right there.”
Years later, Holly admitted on stage at the NEC Arena in Birmingham that she the interview did make her “cross”.
Holly said: “The one gift you have, when you have a child, is to be able to choose the name of that child.
“Who cares what anybody else thinks, it’s none of your bl***y business, so I got a little bit cross.”
Janet Street-Porter infuriated Holly
Janet Street Porter also managed to annoy Holly once on air (Image: ITV)
Another regular star to get under people’s skin with their controversial opinions is Loose Women regular Janet Street-Porter – who even managed to annoy Holly.
The pair came to blows in April 2020 after Janet shared her views on Prime Minister Boris Johnson sweet announcement of welcoming his son with his fiancée Carrie Symonds.
As usual, Janet forgot to say nothing if you have nothing nice to say, as she whined about the PM and Carrie having a baby in the middle of Covid-19 and Brexit.
Holly also saw no sense in her views and couldn’t help but get cross on air once again.
On the news of the baby’s safe arrival, Janet said on the show: “I can’t quite cope with is all the celebration about the baby.
“The birth of any baby is fabulous but the timing of this baby’s birth is not great news for all of us locked up at home.
Janet is known for her outspoken nature (Image: ITV)
“I’m celebrating the birth of the baby but I’m not going overboard.”
Janet bizarrely added that the timing of the baby “was not the best”.
Phillip Schofield said: “But they couldn’t help that. Nine months ago they weren’t thinking, ‘in nine months time we could be in a bit of trouble’.”
Janet hit back: “Nine months ago, we were still in the midst of Brexit negotiations….”
Clearly annoyed, Holly cut in: “Oh Janet!”
Phil added: “So what? They’re in the middle of Brexit negotiations so they can’t think of having a baby?”
Janet said: “Well, if you want to be prime minister, where do you place all your…”
Holly interrupted: “But we don’t know anything about this. We don’t know whether they were trying for a long time.
“We don’t want to know or need to know.”
Janet said: “He has five children so you might want to ask yourself, ‘Why does he want a sixth child?'”
Holly replied: “What about her?! Carrie is a human being in all of this.
“She’s just given birth to her first child, you can’t forget her in all of this surely?”
Janet said: “I don’t forget Carrie but I’m thinking about the man who’s meant to be getting us out of the worst crisis since the last war.
“He’s now got the pressures of having a small child who might keep him awake at night.”
Holly gave up arguing with Janet after that comment.
Phillip Schofield feud rumours
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby have presented together and been good friends for 15 years (Image: Getty Images)
In 2019/2020 headlines circulated all over that Holly and Phil’s friendship was on the line following a behind-the-scenes blazing row.
It was rumoured the pair, who have been friends for over 15 years, had fallen out over a magazine photoshoot for the front cover of the Sunday Times magazine in April 2019.
Sources at the time said Phil wasn’t happy after he felt snubbed as the picture shined the spotlight on Holly.
On the cover, they could be seen posing cheek-to-cheek as an illustrated crown was placed on Holly’s head and Phil had nothing.
Underneath, the strap line read: “Queen Holly: how Holly Willoughby eclipsed Phillip Schofield and became Britain’s hottest TV star.”
It’s reported the pair had a bust-up after it appeared on the shelves.
Holly and Phillip have been best friends all along (Image: ITV)
At the time, a source told The Sun: “To say there has been a bit of tension is an understatement.
“When the magazine dropped, Phillip was fuming that Holly had a crayon crown airbrushed on to her head while he was crown-less and pictured grumpily looking on in her shadow.
“The article itself was brilliant and the cover was a bit of irreverent fun. But Phillip was pretty peeved, to say the least — not with Holly but with how he had been usurped. For her part, Holly was also quite mortified and felt terrible.”
It was later addressed by Phillip in his book as he said that amidst the rumours that he and Holly were not getting along behind the scenes, they were actually closer than ever.
Holly was one of the few people that knew about Phillip’s sexuality before he came out live on This Morning, and he praised her for being a pillar of support for him while he was struggling behind closed doors.
The This Morning star also reached out to Phillip’s wife Steph to offer her support amidst the news, bringing Holly even closer to both of them.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
