Josie Gibson has won the praise of This Morning viewers after joining Holly Willoughby on the sofa today (June 5). All eyes were on Holly this morning as she returned to the show following a break and a few weeks of dramatic headlines.
Holly's break came after her co-star Phillip Schofield, 61, announced his departure from the show last month, and subsequently revealed that he had engaged in an affair with a much younger ITV colleague, then aged around 20. Phillip had met the young man when he was still at school, aged 15, with the long-time This Morning presenter then finding him some work experience on the show after he entered adulthood.
After Phil's statement about his "unwise but not illegal" relationship with the young man, Holly, 42, gave her side of the story to her Instagram followers, claiming that she had asked her former colleague "directly" if the affair had happened when "reports of the relationship first surfaced". "It's been very hurtful to now find out that this was a lie," Holly wrote.
