Holly Willoughby’s response to Phillip Schofield’s petty digs has been perfect

Holly Willoughby has kept her people contempt to digs from Phillip Schofield successful his monstrous TV comeback this week.

The erstwhile This Morning presenter, 64, returned to tv for the archetypal time successful 16 months connected Monday nighttime successful a three-episode bid of Cast Away connected Channel 5 which saw him stranded connected a deserted land for 10 days disconnected the seashore of Madagascar.

It’s been branded a ‘car crash’ and couldn’t truly person gone worse. Schofield lone exposed himself arsenic a ratings flop and his self-pitying rants lone suggested helium has small remorse for his ain actions that ended his career.

In May 2023, Schofield admitted to lying astir an matter with a overmuch younger workfellow and cheating connected his woman Stephanie Lowe.

He’s consistently maintained it was ‘unwise but not illegal’ but doesn’t look to admit rather however unwise it was.

During the archetypal occurrence of Cast Away, Schofield and his household clearly mocked Willoughby, making a excavation astatine her connection erstwhile she returned to This Morning to code her co-host’s exit.

At the clip she went viral for asking viewers ‘are you ok?’, and successful Cast Away Schofield, his woman Stephanie Lowe and their 2 children Molly and Ruby cackled astir the meal array arsenic helium repeated Willoughby’s unfortunate catchphrase: ‘Are you ok?’

He besides lashed retired astatine ‘three s**ts’ successful showbiz which helium didn’t sanction and fumed astatine being ‘thrown nether the bus’.

Naturally past it’s been each eyes connected Willoughby this week, who has inactive kept a dignified soundlessness astir her feelings towards Schofield and has alternatively been letting america each cognize she’s having large clip portion helium enactment the last nail successful his TV career’s coffin.

Subtly letting everyone cognize she had amended things to bash than ticker Schofield connected Monday, she shared a photograph of herself supporting her pal Tamzin Outhwaite astatine the EastEnders star’s play Abigail’s Party.

No notation of Schofe, but inactive it was a wide motion she isn’t going to discarded a thought connected him dragging her to a fistful of viewers connected Channel 5.

Will we ever perceive Willoughby’s thoughts connected Schofield’s TV comeback?

Probably not. Of course, she’ll beryllium asked astir it successful interviews but don’t expect a scathing effect overmuch stronger than ‘I didn’t person clip to ticker it’.

Holly and Phil were erstwhile the UK’s favourite champion friends, hosting This Morning unneurotic for implicit a decennary arsenic good arsenic Dancing connected Ice.

He famously wept into her arms erstwhile helium came retired connected nationalist television, unrecorded to millions, and they made This Morning unbeatable contention astatine the NTAs.

Now it looks arsenic though their relationship is firmly successful the past, nary going back.

Cast Away: Phillip Schofield is disposable to watercourse connected My5.

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