This Morning confirms Phillip Schofield's replacement to join Holly Willoughby

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Holly Willoughby will return to host This Morning on Monday alongside Josie Gibson as the ITV show continues to face controversy in the wake of Phillip Schofield’s departure following his affair revelation.Willoughby 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, that Gibson will be filling in on the sofa.Gibson, 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.It comes after Schofield 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 Schofield resigned from ITV, had been open about their close friendship over the years including going on holiday together.Schofield 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 Rajan 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.”Asked about who on his team knew about the relationship, the presenter said: “Nobody to my knowledge.