Holly Willoughby, once the “golden girl” of daytime television ITV, has suffered a sharp decline in her fortune according to her company accounts.
Willoughby, 43, set up her own management company, Roxy Media Ltd, in 2020 after leaving respected agents YMU.
Her latest accounts, presented tonight, cover the year to August 2023 and the period during which she was still on This Morning and still the face of Marks & Spencer.
They show that net current assets have fallen to £283,000, from £1.1 million the previous year.
Holly Willoughby, once the ‘golden girl’ of daytime television ITV, has suffered a sharp decline in her fortune according to her company accounts.
Holly’s departure from This Morning came five months after Phillip Schofield left ITV after admitting to the Mail that he had had a relationship with a much younger colleague and lied about it.
Willoughby, 43, set up her own management company, Roxy Media Ltd, in 2020 after leaving respected agents YMU. Photographed in 2022
She is believed to be the only client of the showbiz agency run by an all-female team. Friends of the presenter said the move was inspired by her belief in “girl power”.
Holly was in dispute with her former bosses at YMU, who believed she owed them money for her ongoing business deals, but this was resolved through a settlement in summer 2022.
The decline comes as a surprise as Holly earned £730,000 a year for This Morning. She left the show in December last year after an alleged plot to kidnap her was uncovered.
He is now in Costa Rice filming Bear Hunt with Bear Grylls for Netflix.
She is believed to be the only client of the showbiz agency run by an all-female team. Friends of the presenter said the move was inspired by her belief in “girl power”.
Holly was in dispute with her former bosses at YMU, who believed she owed them money for her ongoing business deals, but this was resolved through a settlement in summer 2022.
The presenter, 43, who left ITV’s This Morning last October, has been the face of daytime television in the UK for more than a decade and has become a household name.
Holly was dismayed to be the “lightning rod” for criticism of This Morning after the shocking scandal involving her co-presenter Philip Schofield and his “reckless but not illegal” relationship with a much younger member of the show’s staff.
She was mocked for the opening monologue in which she asked viewers if they were “okay.” Ratings remained low after she returned to the show in September 2023. She left in December and was eventually replaced by the new team of Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley.
Willoughby subsequently took time away from his career. She lives in south-west London with her husband Dan Baldwin and her children Harry, Belle and Chester. Baldwin is a successful television producer and is behind the successful revival of Gladiators.