This Morning’s Sharon Marshall issues apology after mistakenly announcing Coronation Street exit 

This Morning’s Sharon Marshall issued an apology to fans on Wednesday after the soap expert mistakenly announced a Coronation Street exit on air. 

During the show, the entertainment journalist, 51, joined hosts Holly Willoughby and Joel Dommett to discuss what viewers could expect from their favourite soaps.

Sharon announced that actress Jodie Prenger would be leaving her role as Glenda Shuttleworth on Coronation Street. 

The blunder went unnoticed for the rest of the ITV show, with Sharon later realising her mistake and clarifying the news on Twitter. 

‘I am the biggest idiot! The iconic Jodie Prenger is NOT leaving Corrie. Glenda is staying,’ she later shared. 

Blunder: Sharon announced that actress Jodie Prenger would be leaving her role as Glenda Shuttleworth on Coronation Street

The soap expert added: ‘I am so so sorry, I got my wires crossed. She is staying. She is fabulous! @thismorning.’ 

In another Tweet, she continued: ‘It was Amy Robbins who went who I also enjoyed very much. I got my wires crossed in the heat of live telly, so sorry Jodie (but thank God I said she was fabulous and should stay)’ 

Fans of Coronation Street responded with one joking: ‘You said it again on itv+1’ 

Sharon replied: ‘And I’m wrong again!!’

Another wrote: ‘Omg Sharon naughty step for you, love Glenda.’

‘Yes am sat on it now,’ Sharon laughed. 

A third fan added: ‘Fab news I was gutted when you said she was leaving.’ 

This Morning bosses named a replacement for Phillip Schofield on This Morning this week as the presenter takes a break from the show.

Mistake: Sharon later realised her mistake and penned: ‘I am the biggest idiot! The iconic Jodie Prenger is NOT leaving Corrie. Glenda is staying’

She’s staying! In another Tweet, she continued: ‘It was Amy Robbins who went who I also enjoyed very much. I got my wires crossed in the heat of live telly, so sorry Jodie’ 

Funny: Fans of Coronation Street responded with one joking: ‘You said it again on itv+1’ Sharon replied: ‘And I’m wrong again!!’

Television host Phillip, 60, usually fronts the programme alongside Holly Willoughby, 42, from Monday to Thursday but so far this week he has been replaced by Alison Hammond, 48. 

Masked Singer presenter Joel, 37, has replaced Phillip on Wednesday and Thursday this week, with Phil set to return on Monday 3 April.

It comes after Phil’s brother Timothy Schofield, 54, went on trial this week accused of sexually abusing a schoolboy having allegedly made a confession to his famous sibling.

Timothy allegedly had an ‘obsessive sexual interest’ in a teenager and travelled to the home of the This Morning presenter to confide in him.

His trial heard that when he told his TV personality sibling that he and the boy performed a sex act together, Phillip responded: ‘What did you say?’ And after the defendant described the ‘time’ he and his alleged victim had together, the celebrity hit back: ‘What the hell is [that]?’

On screen: During the show, the entertainment journalist, 51, joined hosts Holly Willoughby and Joel Dommett (pictured) to discuss what viewers could expect from their favourite soaps

Change: This Morning bosses have named Joel as a replacement for Phillip Schofield on This Morning as the presenter takes a break from the show

The TV presenter told his brother it ‘should never happen again’ and later gave a statement to police which forms part of the case against his younger sibling, the court was told.

Timothy Schofield faces 11 charges of sexual offences allegedly committed against the boy over three years from October 2016. He denies them all.

He is accused of causing him to watch sex acts and engage in sex acts. He also allegedly performed sex acts in front of the accuser. 

Opening the case, prosecutor Robin Shellard said: ‘This is a case about the obsessive sexual interest of Timothy Schofield in [his alleged victim] and the subsequent sexual abuse of that teenage boy.’