This Morning’s new hosts revealed as top TV presenters replace Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield
BEN Shephard has admitted leaving Good Morning Britain co-star Kate Garraway was the 'hardest decision' when accepting his This Morning role.Ahead of their first show together on Monday, Ben opened up about saying goodbye to close friend Kate, who he supported through the loss of husband: "Her journey has been well documented and I think we would all agree how remarkable she has been over the last four years.
"I've learned so much from her, as I have from all of the people I've been lucky enough to work alongside. I'm grateful that my extended GMB family is onlyHis co-stars made a special effort to be in the studio for the tribute episode and famous faces of years gone by like John Stapleton and Fiona Phillips recorded sweet video messages for him.
Ben closed the show by saying: "The alarm going off has never been anything I’ve enjoyed. But what I have known is as soon as I get in here, I’m going to be surrounded by you brilliant, incredible, gorgeous, talented, challenging, chaotic, fabulous people that make me better at what I do. “It’s not lost on me that I wouldn’t be able to do if you lot weren’t amazing and hadn’t been such fabulous friends and colleagues."I can only cope with this because I know I’m not going very far. These guys are going to carry on doing an incredible job, and I’m going to get a lie in. But in a couple of weeks, I will be able to welcome you back from school run, whatever your morning routine is, with a cup of tea and chatShe said: "You’re an incredible person, an incredible friend.
“But I’m going to miss you. It’s been a very long time. I won’t say any more. But we know that you’re going to be fantastic and we all know that we’re also going to be in your life as friends.”
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