Holly Willoughby was left with raised eyebrows on This Morning after an astrologer predicted that the lifting of lockdown would be delayed... by two days.
Hagan Fox appeared on the ITV daytime show to offer callers with his wisdom from the sky.
Yet Holly Willoughby had her own question for the astrologist as she asked: "A lot of people are saying that June 21st is obviously the day of freedom. What do the stars say about that day, is it going to all be ok? What is Mercury up to?"
He replied: "Mercury is in retrograde. When it kicks in, there is communication breakdown across the board in every sphere of life. It's not June 21, Holly, it's June 23. From June 23 we are unleashed, we can just go and be free and be happy and be joyous. June 23!"
But Phillip Schofield quipped: "I don't see Boris [Johnson] delaying it by only two days, can you?"
Laughing, Holly replied: "Maybe we just take it as a delay for some reason. We're not ready for it yet, we're a bit tentative and then by the 23rd we're like, 'We've nailed it!'"
"I've seen so many people say that Mercury is in retrograde," Phil said. "Which means it looks like it's going away but it isn't, I think that's right. But when does it start coming back again?"
"So it finishes on June 23rd, which is why Boris' release on 21 - there's going to be a two-day transition," he explained. "And then it vanishes until October. But this one is particularly potent. The one in October is less potent.
"When you have the retrograde phase, Phillip, it's just about ticking all of the boxes and being very specific and making sure ever little thing is being quadruply checked.
"It's not disastrous, it's just - always make sure everything is checked and it will be ok. It's not as bad as people make out it will be."
*This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV
