TV presenter Fern Britton has updated fans on her relationship with ex co-host Phillip Schofield following feud rumours.
TV veteran Fern originally co-hosted alongside Phil from 2002 until 2009 – with their bitter feud eventually leading to her shock exit.
It comes after the star sensationally left This Morning in May after revealing he had an affair with the much-younger male employee.
Fern, 65, has now shared a fresh update on where the two stand, confirming they are no longer on speaking terms.
“We were involved in the show and mates at the time, but we don’t really [speak anymore]," she told Good Housekeeping.
The star added: "My time at This Morning was marvellous and I adored the 10 years I was there.
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"I feel you should never look back. I don’t think I’d be able to turn the clock back; it wouldn’t work that way."
It comes just weeks after Fern appeared to take another 'swipe' at her former co-star.
She revealed she had been been in touch with Phillip's other rival and fellow ex This Morning host Eamonn Holmes.
Eamonn presented alongside his wife Ruth Langsford from 2006 to 2021, before being "dropped" by ITV when Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary were called in to present on Fridays.
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Taking to Twitter last month, Fern shared: “Unexpected calls from old mates are so lovely.
"Just had the loveliest catch up with @EamonnHolmes.
“I think we have known each other since the 80’s when we were babies. Shooting the breeze."
Rumours of tension between Fern and Phil have been swirling for years.
Fern caused shockwaves when she sensationally quit the programme seven years later – with it reported at the time that she'd "had enough of living in Phil's shadow".
During their tenure together, there were some good times – with Phil even coining a brutal but friendly nickname for his co-star through a crude in-joke.
He called the star "Minty M*nge" after she dropped a bottle of mint sauce on the floor, and it splattered onto her nightdress.
It was also claimed that she was being paid a staggering £250,000-a-year less than her co-star when they presented Mr and Mrs together, with Phil reportedly banking £45,000 an hour, and Fern £15,000.
Four years after her exit, Phil confessed that they were no longer on speaking terms, telling Heat magazine in 2013: "We were involved in the show and mates at the time, but we don't really. I see Phil [Fern's then-husband, chef Phil Vickery] when he's in This Morning… But we're not in touch now."
Fern said a similar thing at around the same time, and referenced Phil and Holly's regular trips to Barbados together with their families.
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She told MailOnline: "I always say Phillip and I had an indefinable chemistry which seemed to work well on-screen. We 'got' each other.
"We enjoyed a laugh. And viewers seemed to warm to that. But, like Morecambe and Wise, we chose not to live in each other’s pockets. We were a great professional partnership but we never went on holiday together."
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