Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford will host a special run of This Morning on a Sunday in a show first for the ITV staple.
The flagship show is branching out of the working week with a Sunday slot to look back at the previous week as well as offering up exclusive guests and content, putting ITV in the ratings war with Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch.
Announcing the news on Wednesday’s This Morning, Phillip Schofield said: “We have an exciting announcement to make for Sunday mornings, with a weekend episode of This Morning!
Eamonn and Ruth will be taking you through the highlights of This Morning from that week with some exclusive guests and lots of weekend treats thrown in for good measure.”
Holly Willoughby, who returned to the show this week after taking a break to present I’m A Celebrity, joked that “lazy Sunday mornings can’t get any better”.
Holmes and Langsford, who present the Friday show, promised to “put the cherry on the top” of the week with this special weekend episodes, which will run for 10 weeks from January 20.
On Monday, Willoughby celebrated her return to the weekday show as she hugged Schofield tight – while he mocked their separation.
Willoughby, who was replaced by Rochelle Humes while she filled in for Ant McPartlin on I’m A Celebrity, joked: “If anyone forgets who I am, I’m Holly and I used to present the show a very long time ago and now I’m back. It’s so nice to be back.”
Willoughby opened up about her time in the Australian jungle, describing it as “bonkers” and “completely mad”.
The new This Morning show is a part of a brand new Sunday morning slate for ITV, with Parveen's Indian Kitchen before and Ainsley Harriott's Caribbean Kitchen immediately after.
This Morning on Sunday, starts from 20th January on ITV from 10.30am.
