After the queen of daytime TV Holly Willoughby made a sombre address to her subjects on Monday’s This Morning, her co-presenter Josie Gibson wrapped her up in a hug. “The only thing we can do now is be the family that we are,” Gibson told her colleague. Her words might have sounded familiar to anyone who tuned in to the preceding Friday’s show (or read the salvo of headlines that accompanied it). “As a family, we’re all really struggling to process everything,” an uncharacteristically downbeat Alison Hammond admitted to viewers.
In the wake of Phillip Schofield’s admission that he lied about an “unwise, but not illegal” affair with a younger colleague, and subsequent allegations of a toxic work environment (which ITV has denied), it seems the This Morning top team really, really wants you to know that the show’s cast and crew are like, well, one big, happy family.
