Holly Willoughby has earned a large chunk of her estimated £10 million fortune by posting her outfits on Instagram: they are key, in the most cynical sense, to her “self-worth”. No surprise then that, for her first address to the nation on the sorry business of her This Morning co-host Phillip Schofield, she chose a pure white dress: industrially laundered with extra PR bleach; no stain, no shame, looks fab on social media.
It was a flattering cassock in which to deliver her sermon from a dusky pink bar stool. It will stand as a classic of the genre — just as the various sanctimonious Blue Peter apologies were parodied by the comedians Armstrong and Miller (please do watch these: “Alastair was kind and tried
