[Andrew]

Last report I saw a couple of weeks back was around 700,000, which is pretty much around where they were in the Spring.    It does fluctuate a bit quite naturally, so pretty easy for tabloids to create stories based on ratings rises or falls when in reality the change in figures is usually due to factors beyond the show (weather, half term etc.)

I’m not sure the papers quite know which way to spin the ratings, as they haven’t worked out whether they should like or dislike Holly Willoughby. Have viewers switched off since she left, or switched on?

One minute she’s a hate figure who ‘knew what was going on’, next minute she’s really popular and about to be signed up to the BBC on a massive contract