Holly Willoughby, 39, and her co-presenter Phillip Schofield, 58, sat down with This Morning staffer Lauren Hart to talk about the devastating loss of her father live on the ITV show.
The segment was designed to show the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the team at the daytime programme.It was titled “Covid and its tragic effort on our team”, and saw mother-of-three Holly welling up as she listened to Lauren tell her heartbreaking story.The production staffer began by explaining that her father Peter caught the virus while he was working to help the mass of incoming patients at a hospital in East Surrey in April 2020.Sadly, despite the doctors’ valiant efforts to take care of Peter, he died on his 52nd birthday after battling the.