This Morning hosts defend Loose Women from brutal Chris Moyles swipe

This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield stepped in after Chris Moyles made a brutal swipe about Loose Women.

The DJ was a guest on the ITV daytime show when Willoughby and her co-host Phillip Schofield checed in with the Loose Women hosts to see what was coming up on the day’s show.

On Thursday (11 May), Kaye Adams informedThis Morning viewers that they were going to be discussing the benefits of sleeping with tape over their mouths, pegged to the fact that Tess Daly does it.

As Adams spoke, Frankie Bridge and Jane Moore sat on the panel with tape over their mouths, as the day’s guest, Mo Gilligan, sat alongside them.

Moyles was unimpressed and, after Adams had finished her segment, he said: “Good Lord, the guests are on point, but they’ve finally run out of material on that show, haven’t they? What are they doing sticking tape on people’s mouths?”

Willoughby and Schofield appeared surprised by Moyles’s comments, with the latter saying: “It’s a big thing.”

Moyles clapped back: “They are making it up.”

Willoughby stepped in, telling him: “Tess Daly does it,” to which Moyles responded: “She’s absolutely crackers.”

The hosts then defeatedly thanked Moyles for being on the show, wrapping his interview up.

On Thursday (11 May), Schofield issued a statement addressing rumours that he and Willoughby have fallen out.

His statement arrived after sources claimedthat the two “barely speak” off camera and that issues have “rumbled for some time”.