Holly Willoughby appeared taken aback by her fellow This Morning star's confession after her vaping addiction landed her in hospital. Holly returned to the sofa for the third time this week on Thursday morning, after missing Monday's show as she was officially "Glasto'd" following the Worthy Farm extravaganza last weekend, alongside co-star Craig Doyle.
The pair of presenters were joined by regular This Morning guests, LBC's Nick Ferrari and Corrie actress Nicola Thorp, to discuss the latest headlines and talking points, from Just Stop Oil disrupting The Ashes to "Queen of Pop" Madonna being rushed to hospital with a serious bacterial infection. Item number three on the agenda was the revelation that children in schools are "skipping lessons" to vape in the toilets, forcing schools to replace their smoke alarms with heat sensors because the vapes kept setting them off, ChronicleLive reports.
"We know that lots of shops have been accused of selling vapes to younger people and there is a real market for this," Holly said, kicking off the discussion. To her apparent surprise, Nicola had her own anecdotes about vaping, and how it seriously impacted her life.
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"I'm really torn on this," the Nicola Rubinstein actress admitted. "I'm almost embarrassed to say that I'm an ex smoker and vaping was the only thing that got me off cigarettes.
"I became so addicted to vaping that I ended up in hospital."
Shocked at Nicola's confession, Holly queried: "Did you really?"
"I had such an elevated heart rate and they put a heart monitor on me and said, 'How much are you vaping?'," Nicola revealed. "Now I thought these little disposable things were quite harmless, but it's about 60 cigarettes worth of nicotine in a day. OK, it doesn't have the tar, it doesn't have the other chemicals in it, which is a good thing, but it's not good for your body.
"And I quit and I feel great."
Nicola isn't the only star to grace the This Morning studio who has, at one point, had a vaping habit. Following his dramatic departure from the flagship daytime show in May, former presenter Phillip Schofield huffed on a vape in interviews with the BBC and The Sun as he discussed his "unwise but not illegal" affair with a much younger, male colleague, in scenes which have now been memed, both online and on a flag at Glastonbury Festival last weekend.
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