Why Holly Willoughby quit Dancing on Ice for rival show and abuse her replacement received

mirror.co.uk:

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield are best known as the popular hosts of This Morning - but it wasn’t their first TV gig together.

The presenting duo have both admitted they were terrified as they stood in front of the cameras as a partnership for the first time during the debut series of Dancing on Ice in 2006.

Holly, who had come off the back of doing children’s TV, confessed it was the “first grown up telly” she had ever done. At that stage the pair could never have imagined how successful the celebrity ice skating competition would become, or that it would spawn an incredibly close friendship.

Holly and Phillip were so well-received that ITV bosses decided she would join him on This Morning, replacing the departing Fern Britton