TV comedian Matt Richardson has opened up about his secret feud with Holly Willoughby.
the first extra factor The host, 34, recalled a joke he made in 2014 during a presentation for a new panel called reality bites caused tension.
Matt claimed that Holly didn’t like the joke, it was about her close friend Nicole Appleton.
He later revealed that during the 2021 series of dancing on ice, “They barely spoke.”
He said in a TikTok video: “Holly Willoughby doesn’t like me, I don’t think so. Many years ago, we’re talking about 2014, I did a tour in an office.
‘They were developing a new panel called reality bites and maybe he was going to be captain of the team.
‘When they were first developing it, the program was reviewed. So we’re doing tests and one of the people who participated was Nicole Appleton.
‘On this panel, presenter Stephen Mulhern asked him: ‘Why were you three on that?’
And I said: ‘Because the three who are in that room add up to a celebrity.’ They laughed in the room, it was clearly a joke, whatever.
“Then I became good friends with Nicole. We had some friends in common and we used to go out drinking. I’ve been to her house for a party.
Matt later claimed that three or four years later, Holly confronted him about the prank.
Nicole, a former member of pop group All Saints, is a key part of Holly’s inner circle of famous friends, which also includes Emma Bunton.
He continued: “Holly comes up to me at something and says, ‘I have a problem with you.’
“She was in the room at the rehearsal because her husband’s company was doing it. She was like, ‘You made a joke about Nicole and it was unacceptable.’ How dare you? I was like, one, it was a joke. Nicole was next to me and I said, ‘Did she offend you?’ And she said, ‘No, it was fine, I got it, it’s not a problem.’
‘Holly says, ‘Yeah, but still…’ and she got really angry with me, which was really strange. Holly Willoughby was telling me off in the middle of this members club.
‘I didn’t really see her again until I did. dancing on ice when we barely spoke because it was Covid and I was training.’
It comes after Holly Willoughby joined her friend Nicole Appleton for lunch with friends at London’s 1 Hotel MayFair on Friday.
It also comes shortly after a report emerged that Holly is preparing to make her return to television with her own YouTube channel, following speculation about a solo project.
