This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby faced up to one of her biggest 'fears' on Wednesday's (Feb 22) show, after being wound up by producers. Holly was full of disgust as she had to deal with her food nightmare in the studio, reports Chronicle Live.
After being handed victory in the highly competitive Pancake Race against co-host Phillip Schofield a day earlier on the ITV show, Holly was back at the helm with Phillip for the third time this week for the two-and-a-half-hour live broadcast. Guests included new Unforgotten star Sinead Keenan.
The actress' appearance was teased by the presenters at the very start of Wednesday's This Morning, when they also crossed over to one of their resident chefs, Michaela Chiappa, in the kitchen. And it was when Michaela began to explain what she'd be making for them to try that Holly began to look a little queasy.
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Michaela explained she would be showing people how to make quick pasta bakes. But as she mentioned that she had "one with tuna," Holly began to grimace as Phillip started to laugh, knowing fine well that Holly can't stand tuna.
Picking up on Holly's far from impressed reaction, Michaela added: "That's why we've got three!" Remembering what had happened on Tuesday's show when she was convinced producers were going to make her eat a pancake with tuna in, Holly said: "I'm not doing a blind taste test on this one, like we did with the pancakes. Not a chance!"
Michaela's cooking demonstration took place around two hours into the show and, as expected, when it was put in front of her, Holly refused to eat the tuna. Her passionate hatred of the fish is something she's mentioned on numerous occasions on This Morning, describing it as her 'nemesis' and likening it to cat food.
Last May, Birmingham Live reported that Holly had been told to "grow up" after she sampled some tinned tuna - and looked revolted. Nisha Katona had made spiced fish cakes on the programme. “Let’s just get it out there – you don’t like tinned tuna,” Nisha had said. “No I don’t,” Holly had replied, "tinned tuna in particular is my nemesis.”
Phil then said: “I will eat the tuna fishcake for you!” Holly branded tuna like a "can of Felix” cat food and grimaced at the thought of having to eat it. “No no,” Holly said. Nisha laughed: “A grimace appeared." Holly had moaned at the chef: "You can’t eat everything can you”.
“Grow up Holly, she’s hardly handed you a tin of John West and a spoon!” a Twitter user fumed on social media as the episode played out on ITV1.
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