Amanda Holden pokes fun at Holly Willoughby’s comeback statement

It’s no secret that Amanda Holden is not a fan of This Morning’s Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.

And on Tuesday morning, the Heart FM presenter, 52, mocked the comeback statement that Holly made when she returned to This Morning the day before.

Holly, 42, had addressed the nation in the wake of 61-year-old Phillip Schofield’s sacking following his affair with a much younger male colleague, by saying: ‘Right, deep breath. Firstly, are you ok? I hope so.’

So naturally, Amanda took to Instagram wearing a similar angelic outfit to the one Holly wore and said: ‘Hello, it is Tuesday. Are you OK?’

And just in case anyone didn’t quite catch it, she had another pop on the radio first thing in the morning.

When talking about doing the show hungover, the day before, co-host Jamie Theakston, 52, asked her how she was feeling.

She said: ‘I got home, got straight into bed with my dog and cat. I got up, cooked the tea and went back to bed again at 8.

‘I did that thing where you wake up at 2 and you have to talk yourself back into going to sleep.’

Jamie interjected: ‘We’re worried about your well-being,’ while talking to another guest.

Amanda replied: ‘I’m OK people, are you OK?’ before cackling loudly.

Her words come after Holly’s statement continued with her saying 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.’

It comes after Phillip said he ‘didn’t tell anybody’ about his affair with his former This Morning colleague, confirming in a tell-all interview with BBC’s Amol Rajan that Willoughby ‘did not know’.

Holly’s return comes as the ITV show has been plagued by allegations of ‘toxicity’, including from former This Morning presenter Eamonn Holmes who has alleged there was a ‘total cover-up’ over the Schofield affair.

Amanda previously said she believes that in 2018, Phillip sabotaged her chances of filling in on This Morning while Holly hosted I’m A Celeb.

Rochelle Humes landed the presenting job while Phillip’s regular co-host Holly took over Ant McPartlin’s hosting duties for I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here.

In a resurfaced video, Amanda was questioned about her feud with Phil by her Heart Radio co-star Jamie.

As he tried to approach the subject, Amanda told him: ‘I’ve moved on from it, Jamie, you need to move on from it.’

Pressing further, he quizzed: ‘You might have moved on but I just wanted to know, is there any more to the story?’

Amanda told Jamie she had tried to reach out to Phil, but her attempts to arrange a meet up to clear the air were ignored.

She said: ‘I did offer to meet him for a coffee months ago, he didn’t reply to my text. What can I say?’

‘The olive branch had been extended?’, Jamie asked.

In reference to Taylor Swift and Katy Perry amending their friendship after a public falling out by dressing as burger and fries in her music video You Need To Calm Down, Jamie asked if Amanda if she and Phil would have a ‘burger and fries’ moment.

Amanda said: ‘I doubt it. I’m a vegetarian Jamie.’

According to The Sun, Amanda reportedly expressed she felt ‘let down’ by her friend Phillip when she found out she didn’t get the position and it went to Rochelle.

She had previously filled in for Holly when the This Morning star took a year off the show to have her third child, Chester, now seven, in October 2014.

A former daytime TV executive previously told The Sun: ‘Phillip actively campaigned for Rochelle to get the job despite Amanda being more experienced – and having been told privately she’d got the gig.’

An ITV spokesperson later insisted that Rochelle’s casting was a decision made by producers, telling MailOnline: ‘Presenter line ups on This Morning change regularly and final decisions on these line ups are made by producers and not the presenters.

They said at the time: ‘Phillip Schofield is a much loved broadcaster and part of the ITV family. He is a consummate professional and held in high regard at ITV. Amanda is also held in high regard as a judge on one of our biggest shows.’

During their time co-hosting the morning show, Phillip confessed he found working alongside Amanda was ‘occasionally quite scary’.

He told Heat magazine at the time: ‘Amanda kept me on my toes. She has a faulty edit button and she forgets she’s on the telly, which is enormously endearing and funny, but occasionally quite scary.’

After Phil stepped down from This Morning, Amanda posted a strongman emoji on Instagram in what appeared to be a sign of celebration.

She did not caption the post as she remained mysterious about its meaning.