THE REAL MORNING WARS

ANTICS ON THE TV DRAMA PALE IN COMPARISON TO THEIR REAL LIFE BRITISH COUNTERPARTS

- Kylie Walters 

BETTER TIMES

Willoughby was relatively inexperienced when she joined Schofield on-screen. "I was a bit scared when I first met him but that changed very quickly when I realised he was basically me in male form," she later said on The Jonathan Ross Show.

Amazing on-screen chemistry that covers up the off-screen backstabbing and feuds of its primetime hosts. While this might sound like the plot from an episode of hit drama series Morning Wars, these are just some of the shock scenes that have played out in real life this month on British screens. After more than a decade as the UK's reigning king and queen of breakfast TV, Holly Willoughby has emerged as the sole survivor of ITV’s This Morning after sidekick Phillip Schofield was given the boot after the relationship of the once-close pair became “unworkable”.

“I have agreed to step down from This Morning with immediate effect,” the veteran star, 61, who had been at the helm of the show for 21 years, said in a statement on May 20.