Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby to take TWO months off This Morning – with their last show today
THIS Morning stars Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield will disappear from the hit daytime show for nearly TWO MONTHS over the summer.
The pair are hosting their last show today - taking the unusual step of coming in on a Friday - before heading off on their mega-breaks, The Sun Online can reveal.
Holly, 38, and Phillip, 57, will be off for the rest of July, the whole of August and will come back in the first week of September.
In total, it will see them away from screens for seven weeks and two days.
The TV duo have become accustomed to their long summer break and usually take an extended holiday with their families during the school break.
Eamonn Holmes and wife Ruth Langsford, both 59, are the first choice stand-ins when the main hosts are away and already present the Friday and weekend editions of the show.
They are expected to cover the bulk of the time Holly and Phil are off.
However, producers have also been trialling a younger set of substitutes in Rochelle Humes, 30, and Mark Wright, 32.
The former Saturdays singer and Towie star Mark hosted the Friday edition of the show last week, though reception was mixed, with one viewer slamming them as a "Poundland Holly and Phil".
Other stars to have stepped up to main hosting duties include 30-year-old Rylan Clark-Neal, who recently stood in for Ruth.
He and Eamonn made a rare all-male hosting team while she was grieving the death of her sister Julia last month.
In April, I'm A Celeb co-stars John Barrowman and Emily Atack won applause for bringing a touch of chaos to their show when they hosted.
The 29-year-old actress opened the programme by admitting: "I can’t believe they are letting me do it. I can believe they are letting you do it."
Holly and Phil enjoy famously generous holidays from This Morning, breaking up for Easter three weeks before it arrived.
However, they often spend at least part of it together, with Phil's wife Stephanie Lowe, Holly's husband Dan Baldwin and their families often going away together.
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