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Inside Holly Willoughby's big TV comeback: How showstopper dresses, Stephen Mulhern and a pact to 'bring back the fun' helped presenter ease back into public life


It was almost like she'd never been away, except of course she has, having withdrawn from public life last October in the wake of an alleged kidnap and murder plot.

Deeply traumatised, Willoughby was taken into protective custody on October 5, immediately relinquished her treasured presenting role on This Morning - a position she held for 14-years - and disappeared from view, with some speculating whether she would ever return to mainstream TV. But on Sunday evening she was back, having lost none of her usual sparkle and without a single reference to her three month absence, as her long-running celebrity talent show returned for its sixteenth series. The presenter, who co-hosted alongside old children's TV colleague Stephen Mulhern, looked incredible in a dazzling silver strappy dress, no doubt the first of many showstopper outfits to be worn by fashion conscious Willoughby.

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