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Revealed: Holly Willoughby's hell at the hands of trolls who connected kidnap and murder plot ordeal to Phillip Schofield. And the one question that still haunts her...
A knock on Holly Willoughby's door on a night last October changed her life for ever. On her doorstep were officers who told her that they had foiled a plot to kidnap, rape and murder her.
As a jury later heard, before they convicted Plumb of all charges against him this week, the 30stone fanatic had gathered a disturbing array of items that he planned to use to kidnap Holly, including a chloroform restraint kit, handcuffs, cable ties and ball gags. The friend told me one particular thing that haunted her and her family was the fortunate manner in which Plumb had been caught: what if the undercover police officer in America hadn't happened to be in that chat room to foil him, she worried. After much deliberation, she decided to return to ITV's skate show Dancing On Ice in January where she was reunited with her close friend and former children's television colleague Stephen Mulhern as co-presenter.
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