Vanessa Feltz joined This Morning presenters Craig Doyle and Rochelle Humes in paying tribute to “golden-hearted” Holly Willoughby on the first episode since she announced her resignation.
“She is a golden-hearted, sweet, funny, extremely bright...clever, intuitive, incisive, fabulous person...she’s a wonderful person, and you can see family is her absolute everything,” Feltz praised her friend Willoughby.
Willoughby announced she would be quitting the daytime show on Tuesday (10 October), after 14 years presenting This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield.
In a statement shared on Instagram, the 42-year-old ITV presenter said it has been an “honour to just be part of [the show’s] story”, but “I now feel I have to make this decision for me and my family”.
Willoughby had reportedly been placed on “indefinite leave” from the show ahead of her resignation.
Messages of support for the star quickly flooded in following her announcement with her This Morning colleague Alison Hammond writing: “This is a very sad day! Love You.”