Holly Willoughby recalls meeting Dame Vera Lynn as a child as This Morning pays tribute to singer
Holly Willoughby recalled her earliest memory of Dame Vera Lynn as the This Morning team paid tribute to the singer, who died aged 103.Opening the ITV show with a discussion about Lynn’s life, Willoughby was joined by co-host Phillip Schofield and Esther Rantzen when she shared a memory of meeting Lynn as a child.“When I was a really little girl, we grew up not far from Ditchling, actually, where she lived,” the presenter explained.“There was a farm where you used to go and get your turkeys at Christmas and I remember being with my mum, and I was only tiny, and my mum saying to me, ‘That lady there is Dame Vera Lynn.’”Willoughby continued: “I remember then just looking at this lady, and I was so young I couldn’t put it in context, but just