Lorraine host Lorraine Kelly has defended former ITV daytime colleagues Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.
The pair's long-running partnership hosting This Morning came to an unceremonious end over the course of 2023, with first Schofield leaving after an affair with a colleague and then Willoughby exiting following death threats against her.
Talking for the first time about their departures, Kelly told womenandhome: "If you'd told me at the start of last year that Holly and Phil Schofield wouldn't be on This Morning, I wouldn't have believed you. But you know what? The show will continue. She'll be fine."
On Schofield, she added: "He'll be fine. Eventually. It will all be OK."
"They're good people, I miss them," continued Kelly, who has been part of ITV daytime since 1988. "They're smashing, they made me laugh a lot and every time I was on This Morning as a guest, they were a delight."
Willoughby returned to work earlier this month as host of Dancing On Ice, while Schofield has kept a low profile following his ITV departure.
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