Holly’s horror at sick photos
A tough week for TV’s Holly Willoughby got harder still with some shock revelations...
This Morning’s Holly Willoughby was forced to deny that intimate private photos of her had been stolen by computer hackers last week.
Unfounded rumours were circulating that the happily married mum-of-three was set to join a long list of celebrities victimised by cyber criminals, who post X-rated images of them on the internet.
Just as the dust was settling, the famously emotional presenter then faced one of her toughest TV interviews.
Last Tuesday on ITV’s This Morning, Holly, 36, talked to anonymous ‘Alice’ who, after her American husband’s shock death in a car crash, discovered that he’d led a secret life as a paedophile and had taken 800 indecent images of their own fouryear-old daughter, ‘Grace’.
Holly and co-presenter Phillip Schofield, 54, looked visibly moved as the interviewee spoke. Holly, in particular, struggled with the traumatic revelations, welling up as she heard that Alice’s husband had a huge cache of pornographic images of young children. ‘Babies?’ she asked, incredulously.
Alice had met her husband while working in Egypt as a junior doctor. He was in the US Air Force. She had returned from work to discover that he had disappeared after officers raided their home, searching for computer and photographic equipment.
Three hours later came the news that he had been killed in a road collision with a campervan. ‘Suicide?’ asked Phil. ‘ Well, he was a trapped man,’ Alice explained.
Several weeks later, she said, events took an even darker turn. ‘ We all got a stomach virus, and Grace was delirious. It became apparent that she had been abused, because she started gesturing things. Things that no fouryear-old would know.’
Holly couldn’t hide her shock. ‘That’s just so awful, so, so awful,’ she gasped. ‘I’m so sorry that you went through this as a family.’
This is one interview Holly won’t forget for a long time.
‘That’s just so awful – so, so awful,’ gasped Holly during a harrowing This Morning interview