Dermot O’Leary hosts This Morning on three hours’ sleep after Soccer Aid responsibility
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ermot O’Leary revealed he kicked off his This Morning internet hosting stint on three hours of sleep after presenting Soccer Aid the earlier night time.
The TV presenter, 50, is fronting the ITV morning present alongside Holly Willoughby for the following two weeks following Phillip Schofield’s departure from the programme.
Before taking to the couch on Monday in London, O’Leary co-presented the charity soccer match with former footballer Alex Scott at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium on Sunday night.
Discussing the soccer match with O’Leary, Willoughby mentioned: “Firstly, it was an amazing night. Secondly, are you OK because you were in Manchester, you’re now sitting on the sofa, how much sleep have you had?” to which he confessed it had been solely three hours.
“I did wake up this morning and my first initial thought was ‘Mum, I don’t want to get to school today’,” he added.
They additionally revealed that O’Leary’s make-up artist had a “novel way” to wake him up which concerned dunking his head in a sink filled with ice.
After displaying a video of the strategy, he added: “It’s like downing a Slush Puppie so you get this amazing brain freeze.”
As they kicked off the present, the pair mirrored on how they haven’t labored collectively on the present since 2014 when O’Leary stuffed in as a presenter.
Reflecting on a photograph of them collectively from this time, Willoughby mentioned: “This is nearly a decade ago … You look exactly the same. I’ve got a lot more hair which probably isn’t mine.”
She added: “It’s good to have you back.”
O’Leary has been co-hosting This Morning alongside Alison Hammond on Fridays since they took over from Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford in 2021 and after showing on the present as a visitor presenter over time.
He has additionally stuffed in as host on the present with Hammond lately after Schofield stepped down from presenting the ITV discuss present with “immediate effect” after greater than 20 years on the programme and whereas Willoughby was taking half-term vacation depart.
Schofield, 61, resigned from ITV final month and was dropped by his expertise company YMU after admitting to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a youthful male colleague.
The broadcaster have now instructed a barrister to hold out an exterior investigation to “establish the facts” surrounding the connection.
ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall has additionally been known as to a parliamentary committee on June 14 to reply questions concerning the broadcaster’s strategy to safeguarding and criticism dealing with following Schofield’s exit.