When it comes to vicious insults, Carol Vorderman is the gift that keeps on giving.
When Petronella Wyatt made a scathing remark about This Morning anchor Alison Hammond, the former Countdown star, 62, did not hold back.
During today’s (June 2) broadcast, Alison, 48, broke down in tears as she and co-host Dermot O’Leary, 50, addressed Phillip Schofield‘s tell-all interview in the aftermath of his infidelity confession.
‘I’m finding this really painful,’ she revealed. ‘I loved Phillip Schofield. It’s weird because I still love Phillip Schofield.’
She went on to say that she understood what he done was wrong.
‘However, what he’s done is wrong. He’s admitted it. He’s said sorry. As a family, we’re really struggling to process everything. I never know what to say.’
The presenter recalled her late mother telling her to ‘use the bible as your sat nav,’ and to remember that ‘those without sin throw the first stone.’
Petronella, 55, responded to the highly emotional episode by tweeting that Alison ‘isn’t suitable’ to interview Prime Ministers, despite having interviewed Rishi Sunak just last week.
‘People who sob on tv @AlisonHammond are not fit to interview Prime Ministers. They are an embarrassment to themselves and to television’, the journalist tweeted.
And Carol wasn’t having it.
‘Here’s one of the very many women Boris Johnson bedded behind his wife’s back, trying to belittle my friend @AlisonHammond’, Carol began, going straight for the jugular.
‘Keep your pathetic bigoted views to yourself @PetronellaWyatt’, she warned.
Carol finished with a quote so savage it makes Simon Cowell’s talent show critiques look like compliments.
‘People who s**g Prime Ministers should keep quiet. They are an embarrassment to themselves and to womankind.’
Yikes.
Petronella had an affair with Boris Johnson, the then-editor of The Spectator and Conservative MP, between 2000 and 2004.
The former Prime Minister had pledged to divorce his wife, and the affair had resulted in a miscarriage and a terminated pregnancy.
Petronella eventually told the press about the affair once her mother discovered it, and Boris was sacked from his shadow cabinet seat at the time for lying about it after initially flatly denying it.
Meanwhile, Alison has been anchoring This Morning this week after Holly Willoughby, 42, took an early half-term holiday.
She will now return on Monday, June 5, with Josie Gibson as her co-host.
Phillip, meanwhile, has stated that he is ‘utterly devastated’ in the aftermath of his confession, with his daughters’saving’ him from trying suicide.
The former Dancing On Ice presenter also stated that he does not see himself as having a future on television.
‘I am not sleeping, I am not eating,’ he told The Sun, having fled to be in Cornwall with his 87-year-old mother.
‘My mind is in constant, utter turmoil. I think back to regrets, forwards to… What do I do now? What I am going to do now?
‘I do not think I will be able to walk down a street ever again. It is like everybody knows.
‘I am dressed like this because I haven’t been able to go home. I can’t go out.’
‘I’ve lost everything. It’s all gone,’ he said frankly.
Source My Celebrity Life.
