Ben Shephard coyly confirms This Morning break for reason he ‘can’t talk about’

Ben Shephard has announced a interruption from This Morning, but has refused to corroborate what he’ll beryllium getting up to.

The erstwhile Good Morning Britain presenter hosts the ITV programme with Cat Deeley, having taken implicit from Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby aft they stepped down.

The brace usually big Monday to Thursday together, and instrumentality breaks during schoolhouse holidays, however, Ben has present revealed helium won’t beryllium connected screens adjacent week.

At the extremity of Thursday’s show, helium told viewers: ‘I’m taking a mates of weeks distant to spell retired and enactment connected this breathtaking caller task for ITV.’

‘It’s apical secret!’ helium told Cat.

The 49-year-old added that helium was flying ‘to the different broadside of the world’ consecutive aft the show, but ‘can’t archer you what it is’.

When Cat probed connected if he’d beryllium eating ‘witchetty grubs’ arsenic portion of I’m A Celebrity bushtucker trials, Ben replied: ‘I tin neither corroborate nor contradict wherever successful the satellite I’m going.’

She past asked if he’d beryllium seeing her ‘two mates’, Ant and Dec, to which helium repeated that helium couldn’t ‘confirm oregon deny’ anything.

Ben did tease that helium would uncover each the details connected Monday’s This Morning, ‘live from wherever I americium successful the world’.

The prima hasn’t confirmed what helium could beryllium up to, though celebrities are reported to beryllium heading Down Under for I’m A Celebrity, which starts successful conscionable implicit a week.

Ben and Cat joined This Morning aft Schofield and Holly discontinue wrong months of each other, with the erstwhile admitting his ‘unwise but not illegal’ matter earlier stepping down.

However, since the caller presenting line-up, This Morning has failed to seizure viewers, with numbers having halved successful their archetypal fewer months.

The ‘big slump’ successful viewers led to reports that ITV unit were facing ‘shorter contracts, wage freezes and occupation cuts’.

It was adjacent said the likes of Susanna Reid and Lorraine Kelly were reportedly warned of caller measures facing ITV staff following ‘crisis meetings’ being held astatine the broadcaster.

‘ITV is truly tightening their belt. There person been concerns for months astatine the apical but present that it’s trickled down to the store level it feels precise depressing,’ a root told The Sun earlier this year.

This Morning airs weekdays from 10am connected ITV1.

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