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Holly Willoughby reveals why she’s always crying on her friends

Presenter opens up on her real life behind the public profile

To most of us Holly Willoughby is something of a Wonder Woman.

With three children – Harry, seven, Belle, five, Chester, two – going through that awkward growing up stage, you’ll see her all over our telly boxes presenting well loved shows.

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When she’s not giggling away like a drain on This Morning with her TV hubby Pip Schofe, she’s hanging out with the lads on her sports quiz Play To The Whistle – and she’s just been named as the brand ambassador of Diet Coke’s Girls Night In Campaign.

But although it would appear she works twenty-four-seven, Holly maintains that family and friends are most important and claims she works part-time.

“Family comes before everything,” she told The Sun.”I know I’m here [at the Diet Coke Launch] but things like this are actually very rare. I hate missing bedtime.”

But even though she dazzles viewers with her sunshine smile every second of every day, Holly says she doesn’t actually work all that much!

“I don’t work as hard as people think I do,” she said. “I work Monday to Thursday and always have Fridays off. Plus I work mornings, so I’m really quite part-time.

“And I need that, I love work but if I only work I start to feel grey inside.

“I’ve also become quite good at being very strict with my time. I’m efficient and can get a lot done in a short space of time.”

However, she says that while she is pretty open about life and stuff on This Morning, there are things going in in her life that she can only tell her best mates like Fearne Cotton.

In fact, she reckons it’s super important to have these close people in her life so she can confide in them without filter, even if it means she ends up in tears most of the time.

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“You tell one another your secrets, and those things you can only share with friends,” she explained.

“It’s all about not being judgmental in any way. You have to be able to sit with your friends and not offer them the kind of filtered version that you’ll put on Facebook.

“I think friendship is about sharing the lows and riding the highs.

“I cry constantly [with them]! You can’t have friendship that isn’t about offloading to one another, listening and being open to all of those things.”


Christian Guiltenane
Freelance Writer