ITV This Morning's Holly Willoughby apologises for sudden outburst as she gives real reaction live on air

Holly Willoughby quickly apologised after she couldn't help but give a natural reaction to a caller's story on This Morning. The presenter was back on the ITV daytime show on Thursday (June 16) alongside Phillip Schofield.

During their last show of the week, there was a jam-packed line up as they were joined live in the studio by R&B legend Alexander O'Neal as well as actor James Nesbitt who was on hand to chat about his new Channel 4 series, Suspect, but ended up making an interesting tattoo confession.

The hosts also headed outside for a delicious spread cooked up by DJ BBQ and Josie Gibson was live on the show from Royal Ascot. But as ever there was also a phone-in segment with Vanessa Feltz with viewers asked to call in to get advice on issues they're having with their ex.

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One person who called in to the show, known as 'Lucy', explained how her ex-boyfriend tried to get in touch with her to reunite even though he has a partner. But not only that, he decided to reach out after already meeting up with her parents.

She told Vanessa and hosts Holly and Phillip: "So I split up with my boyfriend about eight years ago. During lockdown, he contacted my family and he asked to speak to me. We had a bit of a catch-up and he admitted he still has feelings for me. I'm now openly gay, which he knows about."

She continued: "I've not heard from him for about a year or so and I received a message from him a few weeks ago to say he'd met up with my parents and asked if I wanted to catch up as well. I confronted my mum about this - she didn't think she'd done anything wrong. She wants us to be friends, she's