Holly Willoughby SKIPS This Morning as she takes her three children back to school after admitting she suffers working mum guilt
Holly Willoughby skipped Monday’s edition This Morning to take her three children back to school following three months off due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The ITV veteran, 39, shared an image of herself embarking on the ‘new normal’ school run with Harry, 11, Belle, nine, and Chester, five, after she admitted working mum guilt is her ‘biggest challenge’.
The presenter was replaced by Big Brother: Best Shows Ever star Davina McCall, who confessed she felt ‘nervous’ as she fronted the daytime programme alongside Phillip Schofield.
Last-minute: Holly Willoughby skipped Monday’s This Morning to take her three children back to school following three months off due to the coronavirus pandemic (pictured last week)
Explaining why host Davina, 52, stood in for Holly last-minute, the blonde’s TV husband, 58, said: ‘Welcome to a new week, and this is Davina.
‘Holly is taking her children to school today. They’re all going back and it is a staggered affair.’
The Masked Singer judge praised the mother-of-three as she said: ‘After three months off… what a good mummy.’
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced a staggered return for pupils in some educational institutions earlier this month.
‘The new norm’: The ITV veteran, 39, shared an image of herself embarking on the school run with Harry, 11, Belle, nine, and Chester, five, after she admitted she suffers working mum guilt
Shake-up: The presenter was replaced by Davina McCall, who confessed she felt ‘nervous’ as she fronted the daytime programme alongside Phillip Schofield
TV favourite: Media personality Holly has been the face of This Morning since replacing Fern Britton in September 2009
Marking the first time they presented the show together, Dancing On Ice’s Phillip asked: ‘We haven’t done this with me before?’, with his new co-host confirming: ‘No, I don’t think we have’.
Media personality Holly has been the face of This Morning since replacing Fern Britton in September 2009, and often takes breaks from work to spend time with her family during half-term periods and summer holidays.
The former Celebrity Juice panellist, who shares her kids with with husband of 12 years Dan Baldwin, recently discussed experiencing working mum guilt in a candid interview with Red Magazine, where she said she never imagined juggling motherhood with a career when she dreamed of having a family.
Update: Explaining why host Davina, 52, stood in for Holly last-minute, the blonde’s TV husband, 58, said: ‘Holly is taking her children to school today, it is a staggered affair’
Compliment: The Masked Singer judge praised the mother-of-three as she said: ‘After three months off… what a good mummy’
She explained: ‘Becoming a mum was the only thing I knew I definitely wanted when I was growing up, but the image I had never involved me being a working mum and that’s been the biggest challenge.
‘I’ve been riddled with guilt about getting that part wrong. You love them so much and you don’t want to mess them up.
Holly said her working schedule meant she had missed key days in her children’s lives, adding: ‘The truth is, I didn’t do the drop-off on Harry’s or Belle’s first day of school because I was working. I hate that I wasn’t there because those are memories you can’t get back.
‘But I’ve realised the only way that I can combat those feelings is to accept that sometimes I don’t get it right – and that’s fine.’
The TV star added that she’s ‘lucky’ she’s able to greet her kids after school and be there on weekends.