Eamonn Holmes has told how a big US star on This Morning threw a diva strop and refused to sit on the couch – because she was “allergic” to it.
The presenter told how there was a stand-off in the studio as the star only agreed to do the interview standing-up.
He said: “There was somebody who arrived from America recently and at the last minute they stood on the edge of the studio at This Morning and her people said 'she can’t sit there', 'why?', 'there’s a couch on this programme'.
“I said yeah, well if you’d have done your research you would know there’s a couch for the programme”.
Exasperated Eamonn decided to speak to the celebrity directly rather than her entourage.
He revealed: “I go ‘right Miss so-and-so, rather than what you are allergic to, what are you not allergic to?’, and she said ‘I’m not allergic to linen’, and I said 'well, this is your lucky day. You see that couch over there, that couch not only is linen, that couch is Ulster linen, where I am from and I have had this specially flown in and made, because I like you, have the same allergy to everything'.
He added: “She sat down and I said, 'doesn’t that feel great?', 'yeah, really this is linen, where is this from?', I said 'Northern Ireland, it’s from Derry. That’s when we get it in specially made for me in my contract'.
The celeb was suitably impressed and the chat went ahead, seated.
Eamonn added to journalist Rodney Edwards on the Human Nature Podcast: “So, we did the bloomin interview, she gets off the thing and the researchers were on to me saying 'how did you know that was linen, how do you know?', I said 'I’ve no idea what it is, absolutely no idea'.
"But it was too late to even sit and worry about it, just tell her it’s linen, she’s happy, she hasn’t come out in a rash, everything’s fine."
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