[Kojak]

Josie is far better in the role than I thought she would be but I find Alison more of a natural.   If Alison were to move up to Mon-Thu then I'd certainly put Josie on Fridays, but not sure I'd make Josie the main presenter.

And of course the way the tabloids and social media work whoever gets the gig they'll be coming for in a matter of weeks anyway and they'll always be looking out for the negative tweets rather than the positive one.


As for Phil and Holly - putting aside the off-screen issues I've said for a while their ever increasing holidays is a real problem with remaining connected to the audience.  

They've traded, especially Holly, on basically being the viewers on screen and though of course they're paid well and get Fridays off, I think the real disconnect comes with them getting extra holidays on top of the holidays you expect, so leaving for summer a week early and returning a week late and then the same at Christmas - and then that seemingly increasing to leaving two weeks early on both counts, and then on top of that you have the weeks they're off filming other projects which is fair enough, but to the viewer just looks like they barely have to put the graft in.    

And then editorially within the show although they'll tackle things like the cost of living pretty well in the news reviews and phone ins you then have features for £70 advent calendars and "budget" fashion items which still involve spending £50 on each item based on what some fashion editor thinks is in season.    That's probably on producers rather than them to be fair, but these things are all adding up and all making them seem out of touch.

There's nothing wrong with having segments like the Beauty Advent calendar and fashion items because they do acknowledge that they are expensive but they're not going to scrap them just because some moaner on Pres Cafe and Digital Spy doesn't like it. What's next, replace the cookery segment with them cooking up beans on toast or clothes that can only be bought from Primark or George?

I get the feeling some won't be happy until This Morning is stripped of any fun segments.

I don't think anyone is implying that such segments should, or will, be scrapped. What they are saying is that perhaps it might be an idea for the producers of This Morning to come up with some new takes on these segments. How about a section on thrifting? (That's buying second-hand clothes, for you oldies reading this ) I know you're joking about the beans on toast thing, but a segment on cheap meals isn't a bad shout. (Just avoid Jack Monroe like the plague, whatever they do!)