Holly Willoughby is set to return to the This Morning studio next week and sources claim she is set to put on a 'defiant front' following the Phillip Schofield scandal.An insider close to the mum-of-three claimed she will be back on the iconic sofa on Monday with "nothing to hide" after calls were made for her to exit the show, reports the Mirror.Phil, 61, dramatically quit This Morning after 21 years following a rumoured feud between himself and Holly.And just days later, he revealed he had had an "unwise but not illegal" affair with a younger ITV employee in an explosive statement.Holly, who jetted abroad to Portugal with her family amid the controversy, said she was "hurt" by the news, distancing herself from Phil and his scandal.However, a crisis management expert is questioning whether it is enough to save her clean-cut image and brand.Edward Coram James believes the situation may be beyond repair and Holly's career may also be over.The fact Holly's name has become synonymous with Schofield's will no longer work in her favour, he argues."The idea of crisis communications is to make sure that the telling of the crisis deflates the crisis.
However, with the unfolding Philip Schofield situation, the opposite has been true," the expert, who is the CEO of Go Up, told the Mirror."Very poor crisis communications has blown everything up, taking what could have been an unfortunate, embarrassing and sad but manageable and recoverable situation for all involved, and turning it into a full-scale disaster with potentially ruinous consequences that are now probably irreversible."Unless further facts arise to contradict this, the story should have started and stopped with the controllable narrative of a television presenter having
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