What do Jennifer Aniston and Holly Willoughby have in common? ITV viewers quick to compare This Morning speech

Holly Willoughby returned to ITV screens on Monday following Phillip Schofield’s tell-all interview with Amol Rajan, encouraging a new chapter at This Morning full of ‘warmth and happiness’ after asking how everyone was in the wake of the scandal.

While Holly and Josie were keen to restore programming as usual, viewers were feeling not only at odds with the host’s opening monologue but also getting a sense of Deja vu.

Audience members took to Twitter to note the similarities between Holly’s speech and the one Jennifer Aniston made as Alex Levy in the first episode of Apple TV+ series The Morning Show after her co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carrell) departed the show after a #MeToo scandal.

Alex Levy said: “And to you at home, I understand how you must be feeling because I and the whole team here at The Morning Show are feeling the same way,” which bears resemblance to Holly’s concern for people at home.

In comparison, Holly stated: “I imagine that you might have been feeling a lot like I have – shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what’s been going on, and full of questions.”

TV detectives took to social media to highlight the similarities between Holly’s and Jennifer’s speeches as well as the plot of the hosts trying to move on from the controversy.

As one tweeted: “Feels like The Morning Show you guys need to be creative and create some original drama,” others agreed, “saying it’s uncanny” and “getting Jennifer Aniston ‘The Morning Show’ vibes’”.

One fan made a further connection with the two shows as in one scene of The Morning Show, Phil and Holly could be seen on one of the television screens in the background of the AppleTV series, inciting ‘a full circle moment’.