Holly Willoughby reveals 'wild' encounter with Stephen Hawking as they downed shots

Former This Morning prima Holly Willoughby revealed connected Friday's The Graham Norton Show that she and chap impermanent Alan Carr erstwhile did shots with celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking

TV prima Holly Willoughby has recounted however she erstwhile drank shots with renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.

The erstwhile This Morning presenter was appearing connected The Graham Norton Show connected Friday night, alongside Robert De Niro, Elton John, Mikey Madison, Alan Carr and Brandi Carlisle, erstwhile she told her story. Appearing connected the chat amusement to speech astir her caller Netflix bid Celebrity Bear Hunt, Holly revealed that she and Alan had erstwhile done shots with Stephen Hawking astatine a party.

Holly got onto the taxable aft she told a communicative astir unrecorded TV going incorrect earlier successful her career. She remembered that she had been presenting This Morning connected the time that Stephen Hawking died successful March 2018, and the producing squad connected the amusement prepared a peculiar memorial video to Stephen. The conception went well, and Holly besides noted that 1 of the guests connected the greeting amusement that time had been vocalist Meghan Trainor, who is champion known for the opus All About That Bass.

"At the extremity of the show, we decided we would dedicate the amusement to Stephen," Holly remembered. "They had this beauteous achromatic and achromatic representation of him, and we were going to dedicate a opus to him. This is wherever unrecorded telly tin beryllium dangerous, arsenic the dependable feline pushed the incorrect button, and played Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass by accident, and determination was thing we could do."

It was past that Holly turned to Alan and said, "I was precise fortunate to conscionable him 1 time, and I deliberation you were there, too! We went to a enactment and helium was determination and we did shots with him and helium was rather wild!"

Holly besides related a communicative successful transportation with different idiosyncratic connected the Graham Norton sofa, Sir Elton John. She said that she had been astatine Glastonbury successful 2024 and had seen Elton execute connected signifier earlier heading to 1 of the festival’s infamous portaloos.

The 43 twelvemonth aged joined the agelong queue for the toilets aft the Rocketman vocalist had finished performing his acclaimed set, and erstwhile she yet entered the cubicle she was rapidly brought backmost down to earth. “I was determination and was having the clip of my life. You [Elton] were incredible. Everyone knew you were going to beryllium astonishing but honestly it was magic. Everyone was singing and it was similar the assemblage was moving arsenic one, I’d ne'er seen thing similar it.”

She continued: “Elton was the highlight, but past everyone moved towards the loos. After his set, the loos were chaos. It was disgusting, but erstwhile you’ve got to spell you’ve got to go. I was lasting connected the loo – you would not privation to beryllium down – and I thought, ‘Oh my God, erstwhile I travel retired of here, whoever comes successful adjacent volition deliberation that was maine truthful I can’t permission that.’”

“I’ve ever got a container of bedewed wipes connected me, truthful I cleaned that loo until it was spotless. It was perfect. I was backmost down to world with a bump aft Elton.”

Holly, dressed successful a chic achromatic suit connected the show, besides chatted astir her caller series, successful which she filmed alongside endurance adept Bear Grylls arsenic helium enactment celebrities done their paces successful the Costa Rican jungle.

“It is truthful bully to beryllium doing thing caller and breathtaking and being connected a due adventure,” she said. “Working with Bear Grylls has taken maine wholly retired of my comfortableness zone. The magic of Bear is that helium is truly convincing and inspirational and adjacent got maine to bash worldly and I americium the scaredest idiosyncratic ever!"

In the show, 12 celebrities person to past successful the jungle arsenic they are being pursued by Bear and faced with antithetic challenges. Shirley Ballas, Boris Becker, Danny Cipriani, Mel B and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen are among those taking part, portion contestant Steph McGovern has revealed she suffered an wounded portion filming. Steph, 42, got caught up successful a terrifying incidental portion filming the show, which saw deed her look disconnected a cliff edge. Medics flocked to assistance her arsenic she helplessly hung from her information harness successful harrowing scenes.

Speaking to The Sun, Steph recalled: "We had these astonishing medics and everything. There was a infinitesimal wherever I virtually fell disconnected a cliff and smashed into a wall."

She went connected to picture however she felt successful the moment, adding: "I was conscionable hanging determination looking at... There was humor dripping disconnected my face. I didn't overthink it. I conscionable thought, they're not going to fto maine die.

"It was fine, it wasn't a large deal, it wasn't broken. They were conscionable benignant of checking maine that I didn't person a concussion. I was a spot mad. You cognize these things sometimes that look much melodramatic than they really are?"

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