They’re not strangers to sharing a joke on live TV.
And so it was business as usual for Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on Thursday’s edition of This Morning when the hilarious presenting pair lost the plot over a nickname Holly has for Phil.
Explaining that he had needed to get out of his taxi and jump on a motorbike in order to get to work on time that morning, Phil revealed that he had taken a selfie of himself on the back of the bike.
‘Little specimen head!’ Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield are left in stitches as she accidentally reveals her pet name for him on This Morning
As the image flashed up of Phil in a crash helmet, Holly made a somewhat odd remark.
‘Aww, look at your little specimen head in a helmet,’ she said.
This was met with laughter from herself and from Phil and the camera crew, with viewers at home left slightly perplexed.
‘Shut your face up!’ Phil chuckled.
Phil encouraged his co-host to actually explain the joke, to which she elaborated that his mother once told her that when he was born the doctor called his head ‘the perfect specimen’.
‘The only reason I say your specimen head is when you were born, the nurse said to your mum, “it’s the perfect specimen head”,’ she said.
In-joke: As the image flashed up of Phil in a crash helmet, Holly made a somewhat odd remark. ‘Aww, look at your little specimen head in a helmet,’ she said
The perfect specimen: Phil encouraged his co-host to actually explain the joke, to which she elaborated that his mother once told her that when he was born the doctor called his head ‘the perfect specimen’
‘It’s because if they hadn’t said that, they would have shrieked,’ Phillip added with a smirk.
It was supposedly a near-miss for Phil, who had been stuck in a traffic jam that morning.
‘That was the closest I’ve ever been to missing the start of the show,’ he said.
Phil has presented This Morning on a weekly basis since 2002 – making Thursday’s near/miss quite the milestone.
He revealed that the bike that saved him was actually intended for Good Morning Britain host Ben Shephard, but that it was re-routed to urgently collect Phil.
Close call: It was supposedly a near-miss for Phil, who had been stuck in a traffic jam that morning