ITV’s hit daytime show This Morning made a major change to its opening format following long-standing host Holly Willoughby’s shocking exit.
On Tuesday (October 10), Holly, 42, announced she would be leaving the programme after 14 years with immediate effect. To honour her surprise departure, the opening credits were changed on This Morning.
During the beginning of the show, which would usually see Holly making her way into the studio and previews of what was to come, was no longer visible and instead was replaced with a large picture of Holly with the words, “goodbye Holly”. While the caption “end of an era” was also added.
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This was also followed by other captions, which read “family comes first” and “we’ll miss you!” This was quickly followed by presenters Craig Doyle and Rochelle Humes offering their “love and best wishes” to Holly.
Rochelle said: “Holly loved her job here and was really looking forward to the future of the show. But recent events, especially in the past week have been hard to deal with, as she’s quite rightly putting her family first.”
Craig then added: “On behalf of everyone here in front and behind the camera, we just loved working with Holly. She made coming to work so much fun and we’re all really really sad and we really will miss her.”
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Rochelle finished off the tribute by saying: “Holly said she’s incredibly proud of what she’s achieved on this show and so are we. She will forever be one of us.”
Craig then shared: “But as Holly Willoughby knows all too well, the show must go on.” Seeing the wholesome display from the presenters, fans headed over to X formerly known as Twitter to share their thoughts.
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One viewer wrote: “Bring holly back.” While other viewers told fans to remember that the presenter is still “alive”.
TV star Holly has had a turbulent few months that have been highly publicised in the media. A few months back, the mother-of-three took a break from the show after her former colleague Phillip Schofield stepped down after admitting to have an affair with a younger male staff member.
In more recent news, an alleged plot to kidnap and murder Holly came to light. According to recent reports, a 36-year-old male has been charged with soliciting to commit murder and incitement to commit kidnap.
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