This Morning viewers were delighted on Friday as international model David Gandy joined hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary for a catch-up.
The English fashion star, 42, returned to the ITV show 21 years on from winning the This Morning Male Face of 2001 competition and discussed his career highlights since becoming a household name.
David looked back on his awkward teenage years, his new swimwear range and how it felt seeing his face on a billboard in Times Square for the first time.
Cheeky host Alison brought up perhaps the model's most famous ad campaign from 2006, where David stripped off to nothing but a pair of tight white trunks to promote an iconic Dolce & Gabbana fragrance, Light Blue.
"That was my favourite picture ever," the former Big Brother star told the handsome star as the iconic advert appeared on a screen behind them.
And David had plenty of admirers watching at home too on Friday morning.
"Is it me or am I actually dreaming right now that David Gandy is actually on right now on #thismorning [love-heart emojis]," one happy viewer took to Twitter to declare as the show aired.
"David Gandy doesn’t age a day. He’s just phrrrooooaaarrrr," another gushed, with a third adding: "I'm In love. David Gandy is on #ThisMorning (on plus 1) he is …….. well look."
"Just deleted a grumpy tweet from earlier as David Gandy was on the telly and that changed my mood. Isn’t he beautiful," another satisfied shared online.
A couple pointed out Alison's lighthearted admiration of David's modelling work.
"#thismorning Did Alison just say she always thought about David Gandy’s arse? Get your mind out of the gutter and a bit less sexist," one viewer tweeted in a seemingly serious tone.
Another agreed, hypothetically adding: "thismorning If a male presenter drooled over a female model like Alison Hammond is with David Gandy over his pants twitter would go ballistic."
David's return to This Morning, where he discussed his 'awkward' teenage years, comes after the dashing model claimed he 'wasn't far off minging' as a youngster.
The fashion icon admitted he struggled to get a date when he was younger offered up a rare glimpse of his past during a chat with comedy king Alan Carr.
Speaking to the comedian on his Life's a Beach podcast, he said: ''They were not my good years.''
''I think you have a different impression, I grew out and then up so I wasn’t in my best fighting fit form.'
The comic appeared to revel in David's omission as he probed: "You were minging," to which he replied "Not far off" leaving them both in hysterics.
*This Morning airs weekdays on ITV
