This Morning viewers went wild as presenter Phillip Schofield returned to host the popular ITV show alongside Holly Willoughby. Phillip, 59, has been absent from the show for just over a week after testing positive for Covid-19.
20.01.2022 - 14:43 / ok.co.uk
This Morning fans were left in hysterics after the popular ITV show featured an interview about what is thought to be the ‘world’s biggest potato.’ On today’s episode of the morning programme (Thursday 20 January), hosts Phillip Schofield and Rochelle Humes - who is standing in for regular presenter Holly Willoughby - were joined on video call by Colin Craig-Brown. Colin was speaking live from his home country New Zealand and quickly explained that he believed that the 7.8KG vegetable on his lap was the largest potato in the world.
As Phil, 59, and Rochelle, 32, quizzed Colin on how he found the 'potato' and dug it out of the ground, Colin wasted no time in giving them all the details. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.
You can sign up at the top of the page. Showing off the vegetable to viewers tuning in at home, Colin explained: “At first I thought it may have been a white sweet potato that we’d grown, and then I decided it couldn’t have been that because it was too big.” Colin, who has nicknamed the spud Doug, continued: “We ummed and ahed for a bit and then I said, ‘No, we’ve got to get it out of the ground.’” “So I got the big garden fork and like an angry viking, I thrust it into the ground and caught me a giant potato.” “The fork went in there and I had a bit of a scratch and a taste and I said to my wife, ‘Nah, it’s a potato, darling.
It’s a potato.’” He added: “We just looked at each other and thought, ‘What?!’” Phil and Rochelle then broke into uncontrollable laughter, as they asked Colin further follow-up questions. But it wasn’t just the presenters who were entertained by the bizarre segment, as viewers watching at home took to social
.This Morning viewers went wild as presenter Phillip Schofield returned to host the popular ITV show alongside Holly Willoughby. Phillip, 59, has been absent from the show for just over a week after testing positive for Covid-19.
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