Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield apologised to This Morning after a large spider ran across television screens across the nation.
The presenting duo were back on our screens to host the ITV daytime programme on Wednesday (October 5).
Following a break after Lorraine Kelly’s self-titled show on ITV, the This Morning theme tune began to play out and the titles followed featuring what fans can expect from the episode.
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However, viewers may have noticed a rather large spider run across their screens as it came to an end.
“Hell, good morning and welcome to your Wednesday’s This Morning,” Holly said as she greeted viewers to the programme.
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“As you might have noticed from our titles it’s all very spooky and scary in her today, especially if you’re not a fan of spiders.:
Phillip continued: “We will be putting up spider alerts for anyone who doesn’t like spiders throughout the show.
“Although we didn’t warn you that they were going to be running across your screen at the beginning.”
Holly, 41, let out a “sorry” as Phillip, 60, carried on speaking to viewers.
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He said: “I can imagine you were looking at your telly and thought, ‘Oh my God, there’s a spider on the telly!’ We didn’t warn you about that.”
“Sorry!” Holly chirped again before Phillip triggered the ‘spider alert’ claxon which saw a note appear on screen and a loud alarm ring out.
Phillip then revealed that the upcoming spider-focused segment were the result of Richard Hammond’s recent appearance on This Morning.
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“If you were watching last week you’ll remember that Richard Hammond told us how he was pinned to the back of our green room by a big, bad, Barry we called it. An eight-legged imposter.”
They then replayed the clip of the former Top Gear star on the show telling Phillip and Holly how he had spent half an hour “locked in combat” with a spider, showing them a photo he had took on his phone.
“I’ve called him Barry,” he said as the creepy crawly appeared on the screen.
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“So he pinned you in the corner of the dressing room?” Phillip asked to which Richard said:
“Well we’ve been moving around each other for the last half an hour.”
He then joked: “I reckon I could have trained him up, saddled him up and rode him in,” to which Holly laughed in horror.
Holly also introduced viewers to ‘big, bad Betty’ who appeared in her home and saw her enlisting the This Morning team for help.
This Morning airs weekdays on ITV at 10am
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