Holly Willoughby to make TV return as Phillip Schofield replaced on Dancing On Ice

Willoughby has been absent from screens since she left This Morning in October following 14 years on the sofa

Holly Willoughby (Lucy North/PA)

Holly Willoughby will return to television to present Dancing On Ice with Stephen Mulhern in January, ITV has announced.

Mulhern will replace Phillip Schofield, who left ITV earlier this year after he admitted having an affair with a younger male former colleague on This Morning.