Holy Willoughby all smiles reuniting with Celebrity Juice pal Keith Lemon for 9/11 Charity Day-Cydney Yeates-Entertainment – Metro

Holly Willoughby appeared in high spirits as she reunited with Keith Lemon (Picture: PA/Getty)

Holly Willoughby looked delighted to be back in the company of her Celebrity Juice co-star Keith Lemon as the pair supported the annual Together For Short Lives charity event on Thursday.

The This Morning presenter, who has been targeted online over claims jumped the public queue to see the Queen lying in state with Phillip Schofield, was among the celebrities taking over the trading floor at BGC Partners brokerage company.

Willoughby showed up to help raise money for the charity at the annual event in honour of the 9/11 attacks and even received a round of applause after making around £20,000 on a single trade.

At one point, she was ambushed by friend and TV personality Lemon while making a trade before she kicked at him for frightening her.

Speaking of their Celebrity Juice days, Lemon told the trading floor: ‘We used to work together before she left me.’

Willoughby appeared on Celebrity Juice alongside Lemon, real name Leigh Francis, for 12 years before she quit in 2020, with the show set to air its last ever episode later this year.

The pair supported the annual Together For Short Lives charity event on Thursday (Picture: PA)

Lemon cracked a joke about their history on Celebrity Juice (Picture: Getty)

Elsewhere at the charity event, the television presenter, who wore a maroon jumper and tartan skirt, also made the trading floor laugh after she attempted to put the phone down on a laptop holder.

 ‘I really do not know what I am doing,’ Willoughby was heard saying. ‘It feels wrong just putting it down.’

After sorting another trade which made £3,000, Willoughby told the client on the phone: ‘I am amazed you understood what I said.’

Willoughby later told a BGC organiser: ‘I am learning words I have never heard of. Everyone has looked after me, especially Slug over there. That is his name.’

Willoughby made around £20,000 on a single trade (Picture: PA)

Speaking about the charity that is close to her heart, she added: ‘I am a mum, I have children, their health is everything and I never take that for granted.

‘I do not know what life will throw at me but what we do want to know is there is people working behind the scenes to help.’

On Tuesday, the chief executive of ITV said Schofield and Willoughby had been ‘misrepresented’ over claims they skipped the queue for the Queen’s lying in state.

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This Morning bosses have stressed the hosting duo attended as members of the media to film a segment for the show.

Dame Carolyn McCall said the co-presenters were safe in their jobs, despite an online petition to have them fired, and praised their work for the broadcaster.

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