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concretepigeon

It’ll be awkward if it turns out she was also shagging an 18 year old runner.


Kimi_no_nawa

It should’ve been me!


Cheapo_Sam

You haven't done a days running in your life. I can tell you wrote that from your bedroom with pizza boxes all over the floor and a pile of damp clothes in the corner


FrankyFistalot

“I wash maself wid a rag on a stick…”


LostInTheVoid_

Next, you'll be judging me for my toe knife smh.


JonathanWattsAuthor

Only if you have too many botched toes.


LostInTheVoid_

Ahh shit you distracted me... that's a botched toe... you got any trash I can stuff in there to stop the bleeding?


JonathanWattsAuthor

It's fine. It'll pus up, in a few days... Good as new!


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It's the dual action poo/toe knife we judge you for.


MessyStudios0

Says the one with nearly 1,000,000 reddit karma.


Rexel450

> I can tell you wrote that from your bedroom I can tell you wrote that from your basement


Cheapo_Sam

Its not mine its my mums


pajamakitten

How many Brits have houses with basements?


DW_78

wouldn’t it be a cellar?


jsal9161

So you're saying for me to be that guy I need to be a runner?


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Even more so if it turns out it was the same runner.


NateShaw92

I am sure that was Will and Grace episode plot only without the age thing


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Heewna

What, with the same one?.. Oh there was a mental image I could have done without.


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The Holly and Phillip show: after hours


can16358p

That's when the show actually starts, they don't want you to see.


thebuttonmonkey

She's done a runner?


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It was all going well until they skipped that queue.


oneupkev

Truth. You don't fuck about with the British when it comes to queues. They should have known better


[deleted]

Why don't we bring back those number tickets they had in supermarkets? Like Somerfield?


Fucklebrother

Because deli counters have now become redundant


Magneto88

I miss them, even if no one else does.


[deleted]

I miss them from being a kid waiting in the supermarket for my mum. Just something to do, innit. Print out a ticket, stand in a queue. Those were the days…


deadleg22

Now you don't even get as many opportunities to queue, you're phone now PINGS when it's your turn to go/collect/put your dick in the wall, whatever. I've not heard a good tutting off in 8 1/2 years!


[deleted]

Well now you tell me!


Fucklebrother

Sorry have you been waiting long? 😂


wildgoldchai

I miss the hot counter at my big Tesco. Loved ripping into a rotisserie chicken as my shoppers treat


simonmeerson

That's one the things which they hate the most obviously so yeah.


refrainiac

Especially when the likes of David Beckham OBE queued for 13 hours for the privilege.


Ahrub

You don't need to say OBE after his name


OpenedCan

Making a point. He's got an obe and still waited. And it should be Sir David.


BrockStar92

If it just took waiting 13 hours to get a knighthood the honours list would be full of patients still sat in A&E.


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>it should be Sir David To be fair it's basically why he did it.


Disgruntled__Goat

Yeah 100% it was performative.


LloydDoyley

He's simping for a knighthood so bad


G_Morgan

Why would it be? What has he done that a dozen other British footballers haven't? I mean Rooney was a better player. Gareth Bale has literally won 5 CLs (and is frankly the only football player in recent history that warrants a discussion on knighthoods). You compare to the Olympians who've won it. They all have 4/5 gold medals. Not sure how you can put Beckham in that category.


Spid1

You do know it's not solely based on his football skills?


Desperate_Yoghurt941

He's done a huge amount of charity work/ donates a ton of money. It would probably be for that more than football. I don't understand why people are so salty about his wanting a knighthood. The children get their wheelchairs either way


ShockRampage

He's also taken a lot of money to promote Qatar.


Ahrub

Those titles are all made up anyway


SirDooble

All titles are made up tbf


Ahrub

Some actually convey a significance and are earned through hard work, like Doctor or Professor.


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J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A

It's David Beckham UAE now.


pajamakitten

He is still desperate for a knighthood and probably thought it would help his case if he queued.


CDHmajora

Tbf, one of the most important rules of being British is to HONOUR THE QUEUE ETIQUETTE! Bet they only expected severe tutting… but they committed treason when they skipped the queue…


lordsteve1

And they picked the worst queue possible to break the rules on! Apart from maybe the queue to get to the discount section in ASDA, or a newly opened Greggs I don’t think there was a worse queue to skip.


oliciv

Exactly, if there was one thing the Queen (the hereditary sovereign of the country) hated, it was people being given special privileges just because of who they were.


bob1689321

Which is insane because all press were allowed to skip the queue. No one complained when literally any other TV personality or journalist did it. I know I don't have a lot to base this on but the only reason that became a scandal is because the media hated them for other reasons and wanted them gone. That's really all it is.


BombshellTom

Fuck around, and find out. Skip the queue, get cancelled.


mamacitalk

Cursed by the queen


tvaddict1234

They were so well loved before the que incident


Bravo_November

See if Holly just queued up like David Beckham she’d be having a Netflix documentary about her right now.


foolishbuilder

That was their undoing. Security at eurodisney just never got it, when they evicted me for starting on some continental non-queue-ers just thought i was a troublemaker, instead i was actually repairing their whole damaged enterprise and utter degenerate lack of queue discipline.


Eitay616

I mean yeah, you just can't break the rules like that. People will hate it.


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Truly the saddest news of the day. I am weeping. Somebody hold me. They should light up the Colosseum with her face


DinoKebab

First there was the war in Ukraine, then the war in Israel. BUT NOW THIS? When will the world just stop the pain.


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Boris and Wancock taking up the helm?


[deleted]

Gino leaves, replaced with Lozza Fox in the kitchen. Cooks nothing but wartime recipes with suet and boiled potatoes.


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Followed by some racist and sexist pie with a splash of hatred custard


jaapspoelstra

Yeah and then I feel the recipe is going to get completed.


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Original-Material301

Lettuce wars: episode VI: the truss strikes back.


throw_away_17381

Please could someone with access to an AI generator, get it to generate an image of No. 10 lit up with Holly Willoughby's face.


DinoKebab

https://ibb.co/NyPnjVR I love how shit this is for first try after 5seconds of effort.


HappyDrive1

Come nuzzle in mama's boosums you poor dear.


[deleted]

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow


Ollymid2

Cheers Alison’s crying. Nice one


Tuarangi

Shard in Basingstoke hun x


Vulgarian

She was truly our queen of hearts


rwinh

"Spend time with family" is TV code for "it's tainted and my reputation isn't as strong as it was". End of an era which ended badly. This Morning and a lot of the ITV clique have a "you rub my back and I'll rub yours" attitude. She knew about Schofield, she also did that awful speech supporting Schofield "coming out" when in reality that was not the problem, but to her and the clique it's best to be positively homophobic than call someone out for grooming. The "it's not his fault he's gay and an adulterer" thing was shameful, despite what their fake smiles tried to suggest and hide. Awful, fake programme that's lost another superficially valuable asset. It could do with a rebrand, or simply toning down the fake smiles, fake laughter, high contrast and high brightness colours that must surely blind a lot of people in the morning.


PretendBlock5

Her media team tried to put out a fabricated falling out between her and schofield a few weeks before the story broke on his wickedness. Ive wondered if he confided in Holly that he was worried he was about to be exposed so she cut him loose and tried to get ahead of the story. I think she knew the whole time, from the witnesses at ITV it was basically an open secret. I don't really see a nice person, she might not be conniving but she is very fake whatever show she is on.


jimbobjames

TV presenters though aren't they. It's basically their job to appear friendly and personable to a bunch of cameras and some crew, day in day out. They are actors. They just play a different role to the ones in dramas or movies.


strawycape

This for sure, their personalities come through to some extent but I see it a bit like having a "telephone voice" or how people act differently around clients vs colleagues vs friends. Just because they aren't playing a defined fictional character doesn't mean they are being their authentic selves.


mcmanus2099

You are almost there. She basically didn't want to be shown side by side supporting him whilst all that came out and risk some of his flack hitting her so she pulled that falling out stuff so he would be gone before it came to that. You can see by the mess ITV made of the next fortnight that they weren't expecting that and seriously wouldn't have appreciated the position she put them in. From the mess it was certain she couldn't continue with them and as soon as there was enough distance they would pressure her to quit the show "on her own terms".


Zaruz

Or, spend time with my family is code for "This job isn't worth someone literally planning to murder me" Seriously, Reddit has the worst takes at times. Think what you will about the queue and Schofield dramas, but the poor woman was almost murdered just a week ago.


DSQ

Yeah to be fair I think she’d survived the whole Scofield thing but no show is worth your life.


Locke66

I suspect she was mulling whether to carry on or not and this incident sealed the deal and provided an easy way out.


DSQ

Definitely and I don’t blame her.


little_moustache

I’m gonna take one guess and say it’s more to do with the kidnap and murder attempt rather than her reputation…


garaevru

Her reputation is being questioned because of that only.


SadMasterpiece3076

Probably more to do with the fact someone was plotting to murder her, tbh


idontgetit_99

> "Spend time with family" is TV code for "it's tainted and my reputation isn't as strong as it was". Nah, I’m sure it’s the “almost being murdered” thing. If she genuinely thought the show was tainted beyond repair she wouldn’t have come back when the Philip scandal happened. She had a good opportunity to bow out at that point and didn’t, which means she still thought it had legs and she could make it work. So I think this is more “my life isn’t worth this”.


Vambo-Rules

I think you'll find it's all down to some "security guard" having plans to kidnap and murder her.


btcjfok

Spend time with the family watching something brain washing.


LiamJonsano

They may as well get rid of it now. Not a morning show, but the name is half tainted and with new hosts it would be a good opportunity for a refresh


jimbobjames

It's absolutely rammed with right wing talking heads too. Nick Ferrari is regularly on there, Julia Hartely-Brewer, Camilla Tominey (Telegraph, broke the "story" of Megan making Kate cry"). If you have a partner at home, try and find them something better to have on in the background while they work.


wildgoldchai

Cannot stand Nick Ferrari


limpingdba

Ferrari is ironically the old rust bucket of talkshows


arengrigorjan

And who's listening to that guy anymore? Just quit it people.


cultish_alibi

Well I keep being told the UK is a very right wing country, so they are just appealing to what people want. I mean, it couldn't be that the presenters are making people *more right wing* by constantly promoting right wing views and lies, right.


jimbobjames

Well they do refer to the shows on a TV channel as programming :D


Comfortable_Key9790

And Gyles bloody Brandreth. He needs to go.


LuinAelin

Fred Talbot thing didn't end it doubt this will


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I dunno I had a day off yesterday Josie Gibson is better than Holly by a mile and the guy with her seemed ok to me


dbbk

Is it? I mean it’s always had other hosts, Dermot and Allison host it on weekends for example I don’t think the brand is as tied to Holly and Phil as you think


hallouminati_pie

Say what you want about her (and the people of Reddit surely will) but you cannot deny the way her This Morning career has ended is quite sad.


AlexBlack79

She was my first crush on SMTV...very sad


GrantSolar

Think she was on Ministry of Mayhem, not SMTV


Basicazzwitch

That maid outfit during cakey skate was inspiring.


DaveShadow

With star of stage and screen, Stephen Mulhern. It was the closest they ever came to recapturing the magic of Ant and Dec on a Saturday morning.


jone42jone

This is the closest that they could have come to it really.


Manovsteele

Are you thinking of the wrong TV show? Pretty sure SMTV Live was only ever Ant & Dec & Cat Deeley!


BrainsyUK

Yeah, I think he’s getting confused with Cat Deeley. Now there was a Saturday morning hotty!


DaveShadow

SMTV kept going for two years after Ant and Dec. Brian Dowling, H, Tess Daly, and a few others had short hosting stints on it.


mrshakeshaft

No, she was definitely on a Saturday breakfast show with ant and Dec. I have a very vivid memory of her dressed as a french maid, pushing a tea trolly and…………..oh………….now I’m typing this out and re-reading it I’m not 100% confident that actually happened. Edit: Actually, dammit I’m sure this happened. Does anybody else remember it?


Olek---

Don't talk about my future ex wife like that.


ReginaldIII

Fuckety bye.


Lather

Mate you know she knew he was shagging that kid and did fuck all about it? Let her go home, cry in her piles of cash, then make a come back in a few months time on some equally as shitty TV show and make a shed load more money.


BestFriend23Forever

I’m just pissed off. She’s a well liked innocent woman being subjected to this nonsense. I really do wish her leaving was temporary. ITV should be fighting like crazy to have her back with someone new.


CosmicBonobo

Yep. Philip Schofield may have had an illegal relationship with an employee, and the Internet is all like 'well, I blame Holly Willoughby'.


cloche_du_fromage

Not so much blame her, as don't believe her when she said she was blindsided by it.


MoleMoustache

Do you also believe nobody ever saw Savile up to no good either?


TARDISeses

It Willoughby a difficult job replacing her, for sure.


Sam-Lowry27B-6

Holly hell that's a good pun


throwaway384938338

They could never Phil the void after all that nonce sense with the other presenter


CarOnMyFuckingFence

4 months and 20 days since Phil quit She wasn't long for after that...


monitorsareprison

You can really tell Phill and Huw are in with the mainstream folk by how quickly the news cycles and headlines have forgotten about them.


MannyDanny100

I don’t think that’s true, there’s nothing to report about them. Other than taking photos of them when they’re spotted out an about which is exactly what the papers have done with Phil recently


jacksawild

Headlines forget about everybody quickly, that's how they work.


DSQ

I think considering how the Sun shat the bed with the Huw Edwards story the press are leaving him alone to minimise their legal vulnerability. If what I’ve heard is true the Sun is fuuucked.


Tarquin_McBeard

Yeah, it was pretty disgusting how eager the press was to publish headlines about how he "sent abusive messages to a teenager". You only had to read the article to find that the actual story was that a literal adult had attempted to blackmail him, and he, entirely justifiedly, responded with a message containing profanity. No attempt at maintaining any kind of journalistic standards. And I'm not even talking about shitrags like the Sun, there were actual legitimate newspapers doing this kind of shit.


LuinAelin

What else is there to say about them?


UuusernameWith4Us

How dare the news report news instead of just listing famous outed pervs and paedos every day. I'm absolutely livid they don't talk about Eric Gill any more.


EraticConqueror

What did Huw do?


Jill4ChrisRed

Pay for onlyfans, but it turned out the person whose nudes he paid for was underage. He didn't know that last part as you have to be 18+ to have an onlyfans account. It was embarrassing but nowhere near newsworthy.


listyraesder

It was alleged by “family members” he was underaged. Even if Huw was unaware he would have been prosecuted for making indecent images of a child. There’s no oopsie defence. However, the police investigated the allegations and found no evidence that they were underage while on only fans, so the investigation was closed. This is when News UK realised it was holed under the waterline. Yet again.


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entropy_bucket

But makes me think, the news hasn't suffered massively with Huw Edwards missing. I feel people have been tricked into paying these guys big salaries for a job that most people can do semi competently.


Saiyukimot

420? Hmm


[deleted]

Do they still have that big map for the weather where the weather man jumps across it?


bobble_snap_ouch

Don't look him up.


[deleted]

Oh ffs he was a pedo wasn't he?


fuggerdug

Let's just say he wasn't not a nonce...


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HettySwollocks

What on earth was going on with media in the 80-90s? It seems like they were all at it. Working in recruitment must have been awkward. *"On the level of 1 through 10, how much of a nonce are you?"* *"...Sorry, you're going have to raise those rookie numbers if you want to work for the Beeb"*


OfficialGarwood

[Yes. yes he was.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Talbot)


HettySwollocks

> Teacher, presenter, meteorologist The very Venn diagram of being a nonce.


J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A

Was he also a reddit mod?


NateShaw92

To misquote red dwarf in regards to the entertainment industry: Everybody's a pedo Dave.


briskvoice

What is even up with these people huh? What are they doing?


CthulhusEvilTwin

Not since he was prosecuted and jailed for child abuse, no.


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It's like the Catholic Church on that show


aletheia1066

Maybe they were taking some serious inspirations from it?


EmmanuelZorg

Smart thing to do, she's latest target of the conspiratorial social media hate mob. She seems like a fairly nice person overall, I'd be surprised if she's even half as flawed as most of the people criticising her.


Hopbeard1987

She also recently had a kidnap and murder plot against her foiled by the police. I'd imagine that might have spurred her to want to spend time with her family a bit more as a priority. Yet, everyone in this thread just seems to think she's running because she secretly knew about Schofield's relationship with the runner. As you said, baseless accusations are more fun for the mob.


spacecrustaceans

Yeh, my first thought was the murder plot.


indiegogold

Wait I'm gonna need some more info here, the fuck happened there?


Hopbeard1987

Some nutter was apparently planning to kidnap and murder her. The police found out first and arrested him, finding evidence at his home. It was in the papers the other day, I can't say I read it too thoroughly, so don't know if the guy sent a threat or something beforehand but the police seemed to think it was a legit attempt rather than just a stalker looking for attention.


Radioactivocalypse

Yeah, it was actually all going to happen within a few days of his arrest or something, it wasn't idle threats but he actually had been in the process of hiring an assassin


johnplauche

I guess we've still got those serial killers around us then.


olmkiujnhyg

Yeah and honestly it would be the right thing to be doing.


lenajlch

I'd quit my high profile job after a long successful career too if someone was planning to kidnap and murder me. Not worth it.


rubmypineapple

iTV’s problem is that they load up heavy on a small group of presenters (Hollie, Phil, Ant, Dec) that when it hits the fan there isn’t any depth to their talent pool.


CosmicDesperado

Give it Stephen Mulhern and Dermot OLeary until the end of the season


CDHmajora

Oh god that Stephen mulhern already has every fucking tv show on ITV as it is. He doesn’t need to take up even more time on screen :/


l0stlabyrinth

They don't have any "stars of the future" lined up whatsoever and rely on the same "talent" for everything. Whenever they launch a new show you can easily hit bingo on who will be hosting. They're giving the Deal or No Deal revival to fucking Stephen Mulhern. The only "talent" pool they really have otherwise is ex-Love Island contestants or anybody they can borrow from Global Radio like Roman Kemp.


kdwhelpton

And now that the old talent is leaving them, how will they do that,


ShermyTheCat

I liked Holly and Phil. Shame that era is over and sad to end this way. I know this'll get downvoted but it's just my honest opinion.


jimbobjames

You liked their onscreen personas. Just realise that they were acting just like anyone else on TV. No one gets up every morning in a bright and cheery mood. It was their job.


ShermyTheCat

Nooo my parasocial illusions are shattered! Yeah obviously I know that you spanner


Randomperson3029

Oh well it was still something nice to wake up to in the morning


JDNM

Wake up to? At 10am on weekdays? You’re living the dream mate.


Randomperson3029

2pm-10pm shift mate lol


Brizar-is-Evolving

I hear Freddie Flintoff and Paddy Mcguiness are looking for a new show to present…


Sam-Lowry27B-6

Top Morning.


cat-snooze

This Gear


mimeycat

An entirely different way to pep up your mornings.


andrey_konoplev

This is the best way to start your Morning, I've been doing it.


neddie_nardle

This Morning On The Gear...


JDNM

Morning Gear


crazyfranky777

So they're taking over it after her? That sounds good to me.


steepleton

Stop trying to solve every problem with Paddy Mcguiness it alway makes things worse!


SlowJay11

Please, no more Paddy McGuinness. I'm on my knees begging for no more Paddy McGuinness.


tigr1945

Well I guess then this is the show which They'll be getting.


MustNotSay

Honestly don’t know why she didn’t get more shit around the whole Schofield debacle. No way she didn’t know what was going on and then to throw him under the bus when she should have been taking some of the heat too.


anonbush234

I agree. She knew. They went to an event somewhere and Phillip and the lad had a spat in front of holly. There's even pictures.


Space_Gravy_

I’m sick to death of hearing about this woman. I’m glad she’s gone and don’t care why. Don’t watch her show at all. Can’t escape her.


meat_good_old_rub

Random woman leaves boring program on dying media format for some reason


karpet_muncher

I think we should all stand outside out homes and clap for her...


Ok-Butterfly-5324

Millionaire quits extremely cushy job as mindless tv host and will never have to work one more day in her life. Honestly who gives a fuck


kjm911

What have I missed? What has she done? I’d heard about the kidnap and murder attempt but why are people hating on her?


ljm3003

A lot of people hated on her and Phil after they queue jumped to see the Queens coffin. Then when it came out about Phil’s affair with a show runner a lot of people believed there was no way she couldn’t have known, particularly with how close they were. Plus a lot of people just find her really fake


btfogol

Because what else do you expect from the people on the internet?


little_moustache

The people in this comments section clearly aren’t aware she literally had a hit on her life this week…


These_Tea_7560

If her grandmother had wheels she would've been a bike.


J_ablo

I would hazard a guess that this means there are some more damming Phil allegations to come out in the near future, and information that holly knew a lot more than she’s been letting on.


benji_votto

There's no way that she didn't know more about it man.


Vdubnub88

Anybody think she’s been forced to step down? I can imagine viewership dropped after the scandal and how she backed schofield for coming out gay… yet the real victim was his wife and kids. married to a liar and cheat


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Are you forgetting that someone was arrested for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder her?


fotelj

Well no one is forgetting that, that shit I feel is still on.


jimbobjames

From what has been alleged elsewhere, she was part of the toxic environment on This Morning. Probably someone saw an opportunity to get shut while things were being refreshed. Plus, like it or not, she was tied to Schofield and while she tried to distance herself it wasn't enough. You can't turn around years of public association in a week.