This Morning star on spirit fears

like it.” Holly, mum to Harry, eight, Belle, six, and three-year-old Chester, revealed she even struggles to be in the studio when she and co-host Phillip Schofield talk about the paranormal. And she fears one of her children has followed in her footsteps when it comes to ghosts.

The 36-year-old, who with Frankie Bridge this week dressed up for a Halloween edition of Celebrity Juice, said: “My imagination is too good.

“It’s a genetic thing too. My daughter has my brain, my mind for scary things. Already I see it. She says to me, ‘Mummy in that corner there’s a shadow there’ and I’m thinking, ‘Stop telling me this, I can’t even help you through this.’ I have to really man up and say, ‘There’s nothing there.’”

However, Phillip told how he does not share Holly’s fear of spirits. The 55-year- old said: “I don’t scare easily. I’m not scared of ghosts because I need proof. I like proof of everything.

“I’m more likely to believe in UFOS than ghosts, really. I don’t understand why ghosts are always medieval. Why aren’t they someone who died six weeks ago? But UFOS... there has to be others and if they are advanced, by a few million years, who’s to say what they can do?”

That’s not to say Phillip hasn’t had some strange experiences.

He added: “I used to do hospital radio. It was in a deserted hospital in Plymouth. It was a functioning, old hospital and then one day the lifts broke down and virtually overnight everybody pretty much cleared out and that was the end of it. All the power was turned off but we were still based at the top of it. So you had to learn your way up, through most of the hospital, in the dark. There were still the operating rooms there. It was, as spooky places go, pretty damn spooky.

“We had finished broadcasting for the night, turned all the power off and we heard the word, ‘Money.’ All of us heard it. It came from the corner of the room.

“There wasn’t a speaker up there. We all said, ‘What the hell was that?’

“We searched and one guy found out that a nurse had killed herself at the hospital because she was in debt. That’s quite spooky. I can’t explain it. If it was the ghost of a nurse, she’s dead, she’s not going to do me any harm. If the poor thing is struggling, that’s very sad.

“It’s interesting but it would certainly not be the proof I would need to believe.

“I would stay in a haunted house but it would give Holly a heart attack.”

But despite her fear of ghosts, Holly insisted she will still celebrate Halloween with her children. She added: “It’s a friendly Halloween, cats and sparkly purple bats. There are no ghosts or tombstones in my garden.”

Watch This Morning’s Halloween Special, Tuesday, 10.30am on ITV.