Holly Willoughby said she was "proud" to have dyslexia and she "doesn't see it as a disability at all."
Sir Richard Branson joined Holly and Phillip Schofield on This Morning along with the founder of charity Made By Dyslexia, Kate Griggs. They joined the hosts to discuss the aims and goals for the future of the charity.
The Dancing On Ice host opened the segment and said: "It is estimated that over six million people in the UK have dyslexia. Defined as a learning difficulty, many people refer to it as a hidden disability." Phillip added: "How do you feel about that?"
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Holly then went on to explain the condition has never held her back and that she loves it being a part of her. She said: "I don’t see it as a disability at all, I see it as a real feather in my cap, I’m very proud of being dyslexic, I think it makes me who I am. I think half of the things I think that I’m actually quite good at in life are because I’m dyslexic."
Kate said the charity aims to help people "understand the whole picture of dyslexia" along with highlighting the "incredible strengths" that come with it. Made By Dyslexia also focuses and helps people with the more challenging parts of the condition including issues with reading and writing.
The 71-year-old business tycoon, Sir Richard Branson, said: "I was so hopeless at schoolwork that I decided aged 15 to leave school and do the things that I was interested in, and once I started putting my dyslexic thinking brain to things that I was interested in I started to excel at them. I think I was quite creative and great at getting a good group of people around me and motivating them well… and what I've realised over the years is being a dyslexic thinker is something that we should all be blessed with.”
He added: "When parents are told that their child is dyslexic, they should rejoice and tell them that they will have a little bit of a difficult time at doing some of the fundamentals at school but they should be concentrating soon after that on the things that they are good at."
