‘It was time for CHANGE'

Why lockdown made Holly Willoughby realise she needed to take back control of her work-life balance.

- HAYLEY MINN

There are big changes happening at ITV’s This Morning next month, as Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary take over presenting duties from Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes on Fridays. And fellow presenter Holly Willoughby, who co-hosts Mondays to Thursdays with Phillip Schofield, is making changes of her own.

The 39-year-old star has previously confessed she found juggling a career and motherhood a struggle, especially when her children Harry, 11, Belle, nine, and six-year-old Chester were younger.

She said, ‘Becoming a mum was the only thing I knew I definitely wanted when I was growing up, but the image I had never involved me being a working mum. That’s the biggest challenge. I’ve been riddled with guilt about getting that part wrong. You love them so much and you don’t want to mess them up.’

It seems, after spending time with her TV producer husband Dan Baldwin, 45, and kids in lockdown, Holly is taking back control of her career, and making big changes to her work-life balance.

Going it alone