{"id":181790,"date":"2023-11-25T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T09:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181790"},"modified":"2023-11-25T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T09:41:35","slug":"this-morning-star-slams-unhealthy-obsession-with-holly-and-phils-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/celebrities\/this-morning-star-slams-unhealthy-obsession-with-holly-and-phils-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"This Morning star slams ‘Unhealthy obsession’ with Holly and Phil’s friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Judy Finnigan has branded the “obsessive” scrutiny over Phillip Schofield’s friendship with Holly Willoughby “incredibly upsetting”, insisting that they didn’t need to be close friends to star together on This Morning.<\/p>\n

Judy was married to her own This Morning co-star, her husband Richard Madeley, but has said she doesn’t expect other hosts to have the same on-screen chemistry.<\/p>\n

Although she was never close to Phillip, she has claimed she would still regard him as a friend and “simply cannot understand why he had to go”.<\/p>\n

“I couldn\u2019t understand what I always thought was this unhealthy obsession with Holly and Phillip being best friends \u2013 therefore for the programme to work they had to be so close,” she told Saga magazine.<\/p>\n

“Programmes and presenters don\u2019t work like that… [Richard and I] were married and so supposed to be good friends,” Judy continued.<\/p>\n

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Referring to Phillip’s departure, she sadly remarked: “I know the politics inside television are extremely dense but it seems to me to be an extraordinary disaster of a stage in This Morning\u2019s life that I don\u2019t think needed to happen.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, although she’s quick to insist that she isn’t shunning the show as any kind of “protest”, Judy has revealed that she no longer watches the show she spent almost a decade and a half presenting.<\/p>\n

The 75-year-old, who ended her stint on This Morning back in 2001, has insisted it’s “very different” these days and consequently that she’s unlikely to ever promote her book on the show.<\/p>\n

“[When Richard and I did the show’], we\u2019d interview people about books and you felt like there was some real interest there. I\u2019m not sure there would be now,” she explained.<\/p>\n

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