‘An absolute load of sh*te!’ Kerry Katona slams Holly Willoughby’s ‘Are you okay?’ speech as ‘soulless’ and claims ‘no one believes her anymore’
Kerry Katona has weighed in on the Phillip Schofield drama at This Morning by savaging Holly Willoughby’s now-famous ‘Are you okay?’ speech.
The former pop star and TV personality, 42, slammed the speech which presenter Holly gave as she opened the show last Monday with Josie Gibson.
As she returned the the daytime programme after two weeks off she began by saying: ‘Hello, Firstly, are you okay? I hope so. It feels very strange sat here without Phil.’
She then went on to say she was feeling ‘shaken and troubled’ after his affair with a much younger runner on This Morning was revealed.
Now Kerry has reacted to the speech, writing in her New! column this week: ‘I thought Holly’s speech about Phil on This Morning last week was an absolute load of sh*te. It was awful.
Getting involved: Kerry Katona has weighed in on the Phillip Schofield drama at This Morning by savaging Holly Willoughby’s now-famous ‘Are you okay?’ speech
Not happy: The former pop star and TV personality, 42, savaged the speech which presenter Holly gave as she opened the show last Monday with Josie Gibson
‘I felt it was so staged, so rehearsed, so heartless, so soulless. People want realness. No one believes Holly anymore.
‘I’d have more respect for her if she left This Morning and Dancing on Ice and said ‘do you know what, it’s time for me to walk away.’
She went on to say that while she has ‘nothing against her’ she would prefer Amanda Holden or Rylan Clark to take over her presenting role.
Holly’s also said in the original statement that it: ‘Feels very strange indeed sitting here without Phil and I imagine that you might have been feeling a lot like I have.
‘Shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what’s been going on and full of questions’.
‘All of us at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth, who acted in a way that they themselves felt they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved. That is a lot to process’.
She added: ‘It’s equally hard to see the toll it’s taken on their own mental health. I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal for the health and wellbeing of everyone.
‘I hope that as we start this new chapter and get back to a place of warmth and magic that the show holds for all of us, we can find strength in each other.
Tears: Holly looked visibly emotional as she addressed the cameras with a monologue about her former best friend Phillip
Holly’s monologue in full…
‘Right, deep breath. Firstly, are you ok? I hope so.’
She stated it ‘feels very strange indeed sitting here without Phil and I imagine that you might have been feeling a lot like I have. Shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what’s been going on and full of questions’.
‘All of us at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth, who acted in a way that they themselves felt they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved. That is a lot to process’.
She added: ‘It’s equally hard to see the toll it’s taken on their own mental health. I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal for the health and wellbeing of everyone.
‘I hope that as we start this new chapter and get back to a place of warmth and magic that the show holds for all of us, we can find strength in each other.
‘And from the heart, can I just say thank you for all your kind messages and thank you for being here this morning. Myself, Josie, Dermot, Alison, Craig and every single person that works on this show will continue to work hard every day.’
Admission: TV presenter Phillip spoke to the BBC’s Amol Rajan recently about his affair with a much younger colleague
‘And from the heart, can I just say thank you for all your kind messages and thank you for being here this morning. Myself, Josie, Dermot, Alison, Craig and every single person that works on this show will continue to work hard every day.’
It comes after last week Kerry accused Phillip of ‘belittling’ her in an infamous 2008 interview as she waded in on the ‘toxic’ culture at This Morning.
She broke her silence by talking to Dan Wootton on GB News last Wednesday evening.
In the interview on This Morning 15 years ago Schofield, 61, queried her slurred speech live on air and told her she didn’t seem ‘right’.
Kerry accused him of ‘belittling’ her and being ‘condescending’ with his comments and explained that her bipolar medication was affecting the way she spoke at the time.
She also claimed she was left suicidal following the TV appearance and criticised ITV for allegedly not reaching out to her following the car-crash interview.
Kerry told Wootton: ‘People don’t understand what that interview did to me emotionally.
‘Even now, when I go back to ITV – which isn’t very often – there is a sense of snobbery and that I’m not good enough,’ she added. ‘I feel like I have to impress them, I’ve got to watch my speech, I can’t slur.’
Saying the interview left her at ‘rock bottom’, Kerry revealed: ‘It was just awful. I was suicidal. I wanted to die, I wanted to kill myself. It was everywhere.’
Kerry, who has been sober for 14 years, alleged that nobody wanted to work with her following the interview.
She broke down in tears as she explained how she still has to defend herself over the interview more than ten years later.
She said tearfully: ‘Even now, when I look at that video, I feel so ashamed and so hard done by, even now. For ten years, I’ve had to justify myself.’
‘I’ve got no reason to lie [about the medication], even today I have to justify myself for that interview,’ she added.
The infamous live 2008 interview saw Schofield question Kerry about her slurred speech and ask her if she was ‘OK’, despite her insistence it was due to her medication.
He asked her: ‘You don’t seem right to me sitting here now, your speech is a bit slurred, how are you feeling now?’
Kerry then insisted that she was absolutely fine and had never been healthier or happier as she explained it was due to her medication.
In her interview on GB News, Kerry went on to claim that she has met the younger This Morning colleague Phillip confessed to having an affair with.
She told how she met with him during her time on Loose Women, adding: ‘I met the young runner several times, lovely lad.’
The calm before the storm: Phillip and Holly on the sofa of ITV’s This Morning last month, on May 11
Distressed: It comes after last week Kerry accused Phillip of ‘belittling’ her in an infamous 2008 interview as she waded in on the ‘toxic’ culture at This Morning
Hard time: She reflected on an infamous interview she did on This Morning back in 2008, which saw Phillip, 61, question her on her slurred speech live on air
Struggles: She also claimed she was left suicidal following the TV appearance and criticised ITV for allegedly not reaching out to her following the car-crash interview (pictured)
MailOnline has contacted ITV for comment.
Schofield recently quit ITV and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting in the Daily Mail to an affair with a younger male This Morning colleague.
He confessed to having the ‘unwise but not illegal’ relationship with a man during his marriage to Stephanie Lowe. He had previously denied the affair when asked about it by his agent.
Phillip said he was ‘so very sorry’ for being unfaithful. Stephanie has two daughters, Ruby, 27, and Molly, 29, with Schofield.
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