On Wednesday’s The Jeremy Vine Show, Ann Widdecombe oddly read out Holly Willoughby‘s comments from This Morning.
When Holly returned to This Morning on Monday, she corrected Holly’s language as she repeated the presenter’s comments on Phillip Schofield‘s departure.
For those of you who missed Holly’s speech to the country, she famously began by taking a ‘deep breath’ and asked viewers, ‘Firstly, are you ok?’
‘It does feel weird sitting here without Phil,’ she added. ‘And I guess you’ve been feeling same to me: disturbed, troubled, let down.’
Jeremy and his guests applauded the former MP’s recital, but Widdecombe, ever the stoic, just took issue with the comment, which she said was made by “somebody called Holly Willoughby.”
‘The grammar was awful. It’s not like I have it’s as I have. Like goes with a verb, as goes with a noun.’
Since Monday, Holly’s comment has become an unpleasant meme.
Holly’s ‘are you ok?’ has been plastered throughout social media, mostly alongside photographs of individuals recuperating from a night out.
Amanda Holden, who has been feuding with Schofe since he reportedly banned her from anchoring This Morning, criticised the remark on her Instagram and Heart morning radio programme, asking her followers, ‘Are you ok?
‘Amanda has always made it plain in the past that she has no issues with Holly,’ her spokeswoman told Metro.co.uk.
‘Today’s video has been taken completely out of context.’
Comedian David Baddiel pulled the statement apart on Twitter, teasing: ‘Firstly, are you OK?’ I genuinely thought she was talking to someone behind camera, before realising that of course she was talking to us, the great British deeply-traumatised by everything’s that happened on an ITV morning show public.’
Holly has allegedly promised never to mention her former This Morning co-host ever again, while he admitted in a surprise interview with the BBC that his TV career was finished after lying about having an affair with a younger colleague.
The Jeremy Vine Show airs weekdays at 9.15am on Channel 5.
