Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway calls out Ben Shephard for gushing over 'attractive' ITV star
29.09.2023 - 12:19
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Good Morning Britain star Kate Garraway has cheekily called out Ben Shephard after gushing over a 'rival' ITV star. The pair were back fronting the ITV news programme on Friday (September 29) after Ben originally returned to the helm on Thursday (September 28) after spending the first half of his week on This Morning.
The presenter joined Holly Willoughby on This Morning as she continues on the show without a permanent co-host following Phillip Schofield's sudden exit in May. And Ben won praise from viewers of the ITV daytime show after he returned to front the programme for the first time in six years having last hosted the show with Holly in 2017.
During his first stint back on GMB with Susanna Reid, she told Ben: "You are on the wrong show!" He replied: "I have been moonlighting next door," to which Susanna quipped: "I feel like you've been cheating!" Ben burst out laughing as she added: "I saw you with another woman!"
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Susanna added as a clip of Ben and Holly played out: "Ohh you're like 'oh Holly, oh Holly!'" before revealing: "You know he was texting me saying 'they give you cheesecake on this show!' - in the green room, can we get cheesecake with strawberries on the top to keep him?"
And Ben's co-stars were clearly still thinking about his This Morning stint while back on GMB for the last show of the week. "You’re standing, Charlotte, where I was yesterday, listening to Ben waft away about the joys of This Morning," Kate said to co-star Charlotte Hawkins who was reading the latest news headlines.
Ben quipped that he’d had a