Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton's friendship - 'drifting apart' to steamy 'kiss' on TV

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Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton have known each other for years.The blonde stars are very close in age - This Morning presenter Holly is 41 and TV and radio personality Fearne is 40 - and they palled up as they were both making their way up in the entertainment industry at the same time.The pair have shared countless snaps of them on holidays and nights out over the years, and are tight as ever now.READ MORE: Holly Willoughby ditches makeup and poses in nothing but a towel for dazzling snapBut it seems the friendship hasn't all been plain-sailing, with speculation at one point that the former Celebrity Juice stars had drifted apart as they got busy with other things.We take a look back at their friendship over the years.Holly and Fearne first became friendly when they were around 17 and both rising stars.Both were busy getting their careers off the ground from their late teens to early 20s.Holly had shows like CBBC At The Fame Academy, X-perimental and Ministry Of Mayhem and Fearne on Eureka TV and Finger Tips.But they had each other to lean on, and were often photographed out and about together.In 2007 the pair teamed up for short-lived dating show Holly And Fearne Go Dating.It saw the stars matching up potential couples and sadly failed to go the distance, with just a few episodes airing.Still, the duo seemed to have had a blast.For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.And a few years back they revealed on the Lorraine show that they spent a chunk of their time on the series just sipping cocktails together."We would set people up, then we were in Hell's Kitchen (restaurant) spying on couples having dinner while we - and I'll let the viewers in on this.