Vanessa Feltz fights back tears on This Morning over 'wonderful' Holly Willoughby's exit

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Vanessa Feltz looked close to tears as she paid tribute to Holly Willoughby following her sudden exit from This Morning. The 61-year-old appeared on the ITV show as a guest and chatted to hosts Craig Doyle and Rochelle Humes about her good friend on Wednesday.

Holly, 42, announced she would not be returning to the flagship ITV show on Tuesday night after being targeted in a terrifying alleged kidnap plot.

The news comes after a 36-year-old man was charged over an alleged plot to kidnap and murder the TV personality last week. Speaking about the alleged plot, Vanessa said it was "unthinkable" and that it was "understandable" that she had stepped down as "family is everything" to her.Reacting to the news on This Morning, Vanessa said: "I really would just like to say that Holly is - people love her because she's loveable, but I know people often wonder, 'What is she really like?

Can anyone really be that pretty, that lovely, like a Disney princess to look at? Can anyone be that sweet, really?'"I mean, I've worked with her, I'm very proud to call her a friend for 14 years and she is through and through a golden-hearted, sweet, funny, extremely bright - don't be fooled by that pretty face to think there's nothing behind the eyes - bright, clever, intuitive, incisive, fabulous person, she's a wonderful person."You can see that family is her absolute everything and when somebody is rocked to the core by a threat of pure evil upon their actual life - my goodness, it's like one of the worst things in a movie."Vanessa continued: "It's unbelievable and it's really happened and you can see why she's made the decision that she's made.