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This Morning's Holly Willoughby finally reunited with Phillip Schofield after Covid chaos

Holly Willoughby was finally reunited with Phillip Schofield on This Morning today after he was forced to isolate for a week.

The 59-year-old tested positive for Covid last week, throwing his ITV shows into chaos as bosses scrambled to find his replacements.

While Alison Hammond and Josie Gibson stepped in last minute to present This Morning, Stephen Mulhern appeared alongside Holly on Dancing On Ice as Phil missed his first ever show since it began in 2006.

However, Holly appeared delighted to announce that Phil was back on the ITV daytime show today as she shared a photo of her outfit on Instagram.

Wearing a simple fitted white sleeved top with a pleated white and blue skirt, she paired it with some nude heels.

Holly and Phil were reunited again today on This Morning (Ken McKay/ITV/REX)

Captioning the photo, she wrote: "Morning Wednesday… @schofe is back… see you on @thismorning at 10am… #hwstyle jumper by @purecollection Skirt by @reiss."

It comes after Phil shared a clip of himself braving the freezing cold outside in three layers. 

He announced to his followers on his Insta Stories: "In the first time in a week, I'm going out!" 

Phil captioned the moment: "First time in 8 days I've put jeans on."

He had been replaced by Alison Hammond (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

It comes after he lifted the lid on his coronavirus isolation during another phone-in on This Morning. 

As Phillip called in from his London home to Monday’s instalment of This Morning, Holly said: “We obviously missed you hugely on Dancing on Ice. That was so weird. I’ve never ever done that show with anyone else apart from you.”

Phillip replied saying he was “absolutely perfectly okay”.

He added: “A week ago I had a slightly scratchy throat for an hour which prompted me to test and it came up positive and it's been positive ever since - but I feel great.

“I’ve ploughed my way through box sets, I’ve been cooking, I’ve been wandering around thinking what should I do next, I’ve sat in the garden for about half an hour because the sun came out, but I’m locked in.”

His 40-year-old co-host replied saying: “And you’re bored out of your brain?”

Phillip confirmed he was, saying: “Out of my brain.”

*This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV

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