Holly Willoughby has returned to This Morning for the first time since Phillip Schofield quit the show before later admitting to an affair with a much-younger male colleague. Holly opened the programme on Monday, June 5 with a lengthy statement in which she said she felt "shaken, troubled, let down, worried". But many viewers were left unconvinced by her message.
Presenting the ITV daytime programme alongside Josie Gibson after taking a two-week break, Holly began by saying: "Right, deep breath. Firstly, are you okay? I hope so. Feels very strange indeed sitting here without Phil and I imagine you might have been feeling a lot like I have shaken, troubled, let down, worried about the wellbeing of people on all sides of what's been going on and full of questions."
She continued: "You, me and all of us at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth. Who acted in a way that they themselves felt that they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved. That is a lot to process and it's equally hard to see the toll that it's taken on their own mental health.
