An ITV Dancing On Ice star says Holly Willoughby was down to earth but she’s "changed" and now he "doesn't know her anymore". Dancing On Ice star Jason Gardiner has hit out at Holly, 42, in the wake of the Phillip Schofield scandal, reports Birmingham Live.
The former ITV skating show star said: “When we started out she was very friendly, didn’t have anyone working with her. But on the last series I was on she had a team of about eight people in an entourage following everywhere she went. She became ‘Brand Holly’.
"I didn’t know her any more.” He added:“We were good, friendly colleagues. We would always have a giggle behind the scenes. We had a good rapport. Enough that she could at least say, ‘Hey, I know it’s been a bit rough. Are you OK?’. But I got nothing. It made me feel disposable.”
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Willoughby appeared on screen for the first time on Monday - following the shock departure of her former co-host Schofield and his subsequent revelation of an affair with a younger ITV male employee. Seated next to her temporary co-host Josie Gibson, Willoughby said: "Josie, thank you for being here. Right, deep breath."
She continued: "Firstly, are you OK? I hope so. It feels very strange indeed sitting here without Phil. And I imagine that you might have been feeling a lot like I have - shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what's been going on, and full of questions."
Willoughby 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.
"I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal, for the health and wellbeing of everyone."
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