Sometimes, the amazing crassness of television can still take your breath away, even from the longest-in-the-tooth viewer. Sky News has a correspondent reporting live from Jerusalem, in the midst of the worst pogrom since the second world war. On Tuesday evening he broke off from bringing details of the mass murder of babies in a kibbutz and the slaughter of ravers. ‘Let’s get some news away from here now and it is breaking news… that the presenter Holly Willoughby has told ITV that she will not return to host This Morning’.
BREAKING: Holly Willoughby says she will not return to This Morning.
— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 10, 2023
In a social media post making the announcement the presenter says “I now feel I have to make this decision for me and my family”.
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📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/eR78zH8GPq
This crashing juxtaposition between the grave and the trivial was reminiscent of This Morning itself, which has a habit of cutting between grotesquely disproportionate items, but this particular clash was of a scale I don’t think we’ve ever seen before.
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