This Morning confirm who will join Holly Willoughby on Monday's show

This Morning has confirmed who will co-host the show alongside Holly Willoughby as she fronts the programme for the first time since Phillip Schofield's shock affair admission.

Holly has been on a two week half-term break having taken an early holiday around the time news of her former co-host’s departure emerged and has this week been pictured on holiday in Portugal with her family. It was confirmed at the end of Friday’s episode of This Morning, which was hosted by Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary, which star would be filling in as she returns.

Josie Gibson will be taking on co-hosting duties on Monday, it was revealed. Josie, who won the 2010 series of Big Brother, joined the ITV show in 2019 and has co-hosted on a number of occasions as a relief presenter.

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It comes after Phillip said he “didn’t tell anybody” about his affair with his former This Morning colleague and that his ex co-host Willoughby “did not know” in a tell-all interview with BBC’s Amol Rajan. The duo, who presented the show together since 2009 and also co-hosted ITV’s Dancing On Ice before Phillip resigned from ITV, had been open about their close friendship over the years including going on holiday together.

Phillip has been speaking about the affair he had with a younger male colleague for the first time since he left the broadcaster last week. Asked by the BBC’s Amol whether he told Willoughby, he said: “No, oh god, no, that’s a bigger question because our make-up room was like a sanctuary so you tell everything in that room.

“Holly knows everything about me, I know everything about Holly…. Holly did not know. Nobody knew. I didn’t tell anybody.”

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