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Holly Willoughby has it all

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Landing232 · 11/01/2020 09:11

Just that really. OK so I know I will get told to focus on my own life and that I'm jealous etc I do actually like watching Holly on TV but I can't help hut think she constantly lands on her feet, I know no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors but she is genuinely happy, I don't think you could fake that everyday! She's super rich, seems to have a nice husband and family life, no money struggles wondering how she is going to pay a bill, always getting new job roles, I don't understand how every area in her life can be so perfect. Over the years I have watched this morning whilst going through phases of being so poor and now a marriage breakup, so I understand you will think its my own issues why I feel like this but I'm just wondering how people go through life getting good things thrown at them and some have shit. Yes she works hard hut don't we all she just got lucky yo be working on TV which not everyone has the chance to do to warn millions

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Inappropriatefemale · 11/01/2020 11:41

I’m positive that I’ve read somewhere on here that Holly’s hubby is a philanderer so she doesn’t have a perfect marriage.

I wouldn’t say she ‘lands on her feet’, she is a good presenter which is why she gets some jobs but I’ve also read on here that her husband works behind the scenes for ITV and this is why she gets certain jobs, or am I wrong?

I think Holly is quite ordinary looking, she is pretty yes but there’s another 1000 woman that look similar to her in almost every city, she is conventionally attractive.

I think I’m just a person that prefers brunettes!Grin

Inappropriatefemale · 11/01/2020 11:42

As a PP said Holly has a boring personality and I agree.

SaaauuusierGrrr · 11/01/2020 11:51

I think a lot of people have that one particular celeb that they just think "I wish I could be you". If it makes you feel any better, usually whoever you pick is someone that you probably already share some common traits with. The people we admire are often people that we see as "upgraded" versions of ourselves in some way.

So you're probably more like Holly Willoughby than you realise. :)

Bluntness100 · 11/01/2020 11:51

Some of the comments on here are so sad and say way more about the teller than they say about holly, talentless, dim, boring, got there on looks alone etc.

On the outside it looks like pure envy and bitchiness, but peer deeper and as this is about someone the poster has never even met it speaks to their own unhappiness. 😔

autumndreaming · 11/01/2020 11:53

Tbh I think you could say this about many a celebrity. But all of this isn't to say she doesn't feel down sometimes, anxious, she has to deal with the downsides of fame (which for me personally would be utterly destructive) - the Daily Mail scrutinisation, people talking about her as if they know her, her weight/wrinkles/hair/fashion choices criticised. For me, this means she absolutely doesn't have it all!

My worst nightmare is fame though, so that will be skewing my thinking. No amount of money could make up for it.

JemSynergy · 11/01/2020 11:53

I am not keen on her, but there are a few people I am not keen on because they are on just on too many programmes and their over exposure gets boring. I think it helps that Holly's husband is a television producer so she keeps getting the work.

Mrsjayy · 11/01/2020 11:53

I mean she is a tv presenter and personality she has been kicking about for years but to be envious of a woman you don't know is a bit silly and she went on holiday with Phil this year it is like she is being held captive Grin

Straycatstrut · 11/01/2020 11:57

I used to want to be famous like a Spice Girl Grin... then I grew up and I realised why so many celebrities have breakdowns and can't keep a relationship. Why some pack it all in even when it they are so popular. All their personal dramas in the press, lies about them, the public bitching about them. Everyone wanting a picture, a story. I bet she gets death threats due to people who can't handle their envy.

Her kids will have kids who are jealous of them because of it. They'll be targeted at some point because of it. They'll have friends who are their friends just because of their mum.

How does she take them out in public without being followed?

The pressure when it feels like the world is staring at you must be so suffocating. Some days I bet she wishes she could just hide away.

I wouldn't trade my privacy for anything. I don't even do FB. Anonymous MN is as far as I go Grin

lynsey91 · 11/01/2020 12:01

I too have read that her husband is unfaithful. If true she certainly has not got it all.

I don't find her funny in the slightest and that little girl voice drives me mad. I quite enjoy watching Dancing on Ice but so wish the presenters were not Holly and Phillip. Also why does she feel the need on an ice rink when all the audience are wearing jumpers if not jackets, scarves etc to almost always have her boobs on show? Tess and Claudia don't on Strictly

Inappropriatefemale · 11/01/2020 12:02

I read somewhere (can’t remember where) just a couple of weeks ago that Holly & Phil had issues between them due to Phil being annoyed that Holly was named as a best presenter for This Morning, or something, and Phil was annoyed that he wasn’t mentioned and that Phil was becoming increasingly hard work behind the scenes as everything has went to his head, and even Holly was tiptoeing around himConfused

Now I don’t know if this is utter crap but it’s all to do with Ruth and Amanda Holden having issues with him as well.

I also read that Phil feels he should get a knighthood for his work on TV throughout the years...has anyone else heard all this?

everythingisginandroses · 11/01/2020 12:02

I don't know much about HW, but me? I'm 44. Average build, average height. Not good-looking. Not rich. No special talents. I don't drive a car. My house is the dowdiest in the street. You wouldn't want my teeth, my wrinkles or my white hair.

I have one healthy child. I've been with DH for a quarter of a century. He is beautiful inside and out. I have a job that pays a decent salary and which I am not ashamed of. 5 years ago, I had an emergency operation which saved my life. I am free to go where I want, wear what I want, see who I want, read books, listen to music, watch films, watch Celtic, get involved in politics, smell the flowers and watch the birds in my garden.

Now and then, I go to the pub at lunchtime on my own and have a pint with my lunch, and I think about how most women in the world can't do what I am doing. I am literally one of the luckiest women alive in the world today.

Inappropriatefemale · 11/01/2020 12:03

HW isn’t hilarious or even mildly funny, where does anybody get this impression from?!

WhiskersPete · 11/01/2020 12:04

It's an image that sells. It obviously works.

Landing232 · 11/01/2020 12:09

Oh another thing I think I'm actually jealous of is not the card etc it's more like the security she has but it's her confidence she is just confident no matter what and I'm abit socially awkward at times I'm not jealous her looks I'm not ugly myself I am thinner than her that's not in a bitch way I think she looks great I think it's her happiness and confidence I envy rather than materialistic things she has, I have 2 amazing children myself so I don't feel jealous in that way.

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nocluewhattodoo · 11/01/2020 12:10

She's put on ITV precisely to make the people watching at home feel inadequate. And I've recently been advertised her book 'Truly Happy Baby' what utter nonsense, ghost written shite no doubt. I have zero respect for her precisely because she continues to put forward this image of 'perfection' that does not exist and is certainly unattainable for anyone who isn't a millionaire.

Landing232 · 11/01/2020 12:10

Cars**

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Bbq1 · 11/01/2020 12:11

I like Holly and think she's a good presenter. She is very pretty and has worked to get where she is. It's ridiculous to make the assumption that she has the "perfect"life. I'm sure she has issues going on in her life that she's dealing with as we all are. Who knows? She's only human after all. Either way, I prefer her much more then that old hag, Amanda Holden who rode on the coat tails of Les Dennis to get on. She has NO talent whatsoever, loves herself and dresses and acts like she's about 20. Can't stand her.

Landing232 · 11/01/2020 12:12

And yes it would be nice if she was more relatable and went on this morning and said my husband was a selfish prick last night and my child woke at 4 am and then I got stressed because they wouldn't go back to sleep but obvs she can't say all of that haha its just how she comes across as so perfect just let us have an insight into normal crap that goes on

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Landing232 · 11/01/2020 12:14

And she got spotted at a clothes roadshow so yes it was luck and not just hard work she didn't set out to have this big career

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Inappropriatefemale · 11/01/2020 12:15

Her mum babysits a lot and is often backstage at This Morning with Holly’s kid(s), I say this because I am unsure of her kids ages, I think she will now have the kids in school?

CosmoK · 11/01/2020 12:17

But everyone's career has an element of luck. It's unfair to dislike somebody for that.

Mrsjayy · 11/01/2020 12:19

She is confident because that is her job to be all tits and teeth confident seeing her on Tv or her insta story isn't "real" she switches from sympathetic to giggily in an advert break because that is her job as a tv presenter.

Freshprincess · 11/01/2020 12:21

Looking from the outside she seems to have a nice life. Who knows though?

I’d bet my house that she won’t be the darling of ITV when she’s Schofe’s age.

Nearlyalmost50 · 11/01/2020 12:25

I don't think being spotted at age 14 and doing a few teen model shoots is really a passport to fame and fortune. I know a couple of people who did it and they are not top TV presenters. Perhaps she went there deliberately and got chatting with people that matter, perhaps she said yes to most things going even though they might have seemed a bit trivial or stupid initially?

Of course she is lucky, she's good looking, slim, looks good on camera (which not all good looking people do), has a supportive family, isn't stupid (whatever anyone says). But she absolutely made the most of her opportunities and luck too, and when things don't work out, still carries on trying new things and putting herself out there. I would be devastated to read the things people have written about her on here about myself- she must have great resilience to block all that out.