Phillip Schofield: ‘Holly Willoughby danced around drunk in my Joseph coat’

The This Morning co-presenters had a boozy night with the famous costume 
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Phillip Schofield has said that This Morning co-presenter Holly Willoughby once danced around in his famous Joseph coat.

The presenter, who is back on stage in Knights of Music, admitted that he ‘pinched’ the costume after his run of Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat, which now hangs in his wardrobe.

“It’s not in the garage, it’s in my wardrobe and it is the one I wore on the West End so it is ‘the’ coat, it’s my coat and I pinched it on my last ever night at the Palladium,” he said.

“I swiped it and I put it in the boot of the car and I drove it home and I thought I’d tell them about it tomorrow because I wasn’t just going to run away with it and they immediately knew what had happened and they hit the roof.”

Iconic: Phillip Schofield in Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat (PA )
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But it seems that the coat has now become a useful prop for dinner parties and recently caught the attention of his best friend Willoughby.

“Every so often someone will come round, and the last person who came round was Holly Willoughby who said ‘Oh go and get it out’. We’d had a bit of wine and she was dancing in the coat,” he said.

Schofield hosts new touring show Knights of Music, which is a celebration of the film and theatre industry throughout the ages.

“The reaction was very different to when I was in the theatre because it’s a much more restrained audience in the theatre anyway and they’re expecting you to sing because that’s why they’ve come to see the show,” he said.

“Whereas with Knights, there is that element of ‘Will it happen won’t it happen, will he sing it, won’t he sing it’.

“And then when we started they just went mad. It was just fun because the pressure’s off… you’re not pitching a great big run. I know we haven’t got to do this for a year, there are only four of them.”

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