What a folly, Phil and Holly! Tuesday

ITV’S golden girl Holly Willoughby famously uses moonlight to “recharge” her precious lucky crystals.

But with everything going on this week, we must have missed a lunar eclipse.

For it seems Holly’s luck has well and truly run out – with celebs and viewers practically, um, queuing up to have a pop at her and This Morning co-host Phillip Schofield.

Why? Because they used fast-track press passes for the Queen’s lying-instate – while others like Becks, Tilda Swinton, Susanna Reid, and the 90-year-old veteran in front of Dame Kelly Holmes, joined the five-mile, 12-hour queue.

Holly, Phil and ITV tried their best to explain on Tuesday’s show, insisting they were not pushing in but just there to report on the event.

(You know, like they usually go out and do all the, um... never.)

“It was strictly for the purpose of reporting,’ added Holly, “For millions of people in the UK who haven’t been able to visit Westminster in person.”

(Or, presumably, flip the channel to BBC’S 24-hour livestream).

Yet they failed to understand the heart of the debate. It wasn’t about whether or not there was a separate line for on-duty reporters. It was about who used that privilege because they needed to... and who abused it because they could?

Of course, there was one thing more shocking about queuegate than any other: the relevation that Phil and Holly actually consider themselves journalists.

For, if hosting This Morning and taking home a celebrity-sized salary makes you a member of the press, than posting a few Youtube videos and having a Tiktok makes me a qualified TV presenter.

I’m off to update my CV. should actually Ask The Audience they’re chasing, instead of second-guessing them.