London studio, Holly Willoughby is reliving one of her worst television moments – interviewing the then prime minister Gordon Brown. 'I was dreadful,' she says of the interview which took place in 2009, just two months after she'd joined ITV's This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield. 'The worst thing was that so many people in the industry had said I couldn't do that job.
I wanted to prove myself. 'I sat with the producers, discussing it for ages. Then when it came to the interview I was trying to read out questions from the script. 'I was saying words I didn't even understand, mangling up sentences and completely floundering.
I was awful. 'Various critics had said, 'She'll be OK with the fluffy fashion pieces but how will she do a serious political interview?' And they were right. 'Presenting that show is about being able to do everything from light to serious.
I wasn't up to the job. ' Yet 13 years on, Holly, 41, has proved everyone – including herself – wrong. She is not only the queen of ITV daytime but one of the most successful female presenters, fronting prime-time shows from the BBC's The Voice UK to ITV's Surprise, Surprise and Dancing On Ice.
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