A woman who started a petition calling for ITV to sack Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield from This Morning after a row over the queue to see the Queen lying in state has said: "It's destroying me." ITV has strongly backed Holly and Phil, saying they did not skip any queue and were there in a professional capacity.
But that hasn't stopped the Change.org petition being signed more than 75,000 times. Holly didn't post her popular daily outfit updates for two weeks on Instagram, finally returning earlier this week.
Laura Harrison created the petition, claiming that Holly and Phil were “given privileges that deprived others” as thousands waited in the queue to pay their respects for hours in miles-long queues. But in an update on the page which was set up on September 17 after it reached over 75,000 Ms Harrison said she wants "nothing more than for this topic to end."
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In sharing the update on September 25 she wrote: “I’ve asked ITV to deliver any responses relating to this to the public and not to me, as I won’t be following the news, or watching the programme, or sharing anything online, or through social media,” they wrote. “I want nothing more than for this topic to end. I want positivity, not hostility and negativity. The concerns raised by this have been shared with Ofcom and ITV, and that’s all I can do. I want to begin the week on a more positive note, and I don’t want to think about the programme anymore. It’s kind of destroying me. Words will be twisted, but the intent was always to prevent people being hurt time and time again by these TV shows.”
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