Lorraine Kelly has finally spoken about the exits of Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby from This Morning.
The ITV presenter admitted she didn’t see it coming but doesn’t think it will harm the popular daytime show. She defended her former colleagues, insisting both Phillip and Holly are “good people” and will be “fine”.
Phillip left the show last year after 21 years following his affair with a younger male runner at ITV. Holly quit in October after 14 years following an alleged kidnap plot and recently returned to TV on Dancing On Ice.
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Lorraine told Woman And Home: “If you’d told me at the start of last year that Holly and Phil Schofield wouldn’t be on This Morning, I wouldn’t have believed you,” and added: “But you know what? The show will continue. She’ll be fine.”
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Speaking about Phillip, she said: “He’ll be fine. Eventually. It will all be OK.” Speaking warmly about her old workmates, she said: “They’re good people, I miss them. They’re smashing, they made me laugh a lot and every time I was on This Morning as a guest, they were a delight.”
She also shared a hilarious memory from The Cube with Phillip, revealing that he had ‘never laughed so much’ as when she and her daughter Rosie tried to conquer the game show.
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After leaving in June, Phillip said of his affair: “That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over. When I chose to come out I did so entirely for my own wellbeing. Nobody ‘forced’ me out,” the dad of two clarified. He strongly denied that either he or anyone else had ever put any kind of injunction regarding his relationship with this colleague, and the colleague was never moved or sacked because of him.”
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He admitted: “In an effort to protect my ex-colleague I haven’t been truthful about the relationship. But my recent, unrelated, departure from This Morning fuelled speculation and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake, it is important for me to be honest now.”
The axed presenter added: “I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family.” Holly, who was also surprised by the news, stayed on This Morning for another five months before leaving in October to spend more time with her family.
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