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This Morning's Phillip Schofield accuses Spin to Win contestant of phoning earlier live on air

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Photo credit: ITV

From Digital Spy

Phillip Schofield was left stroking his chin on This Morning after growing suspicious of one caller during the Spin to Win game.

The daily call-in game requires players to phone in and say a key word straight away – and are immediately disqualified if they answer with "hello".

After two false starts in a row on today's (April 9) episode, their third caller managed to get it right, though Phil repeatedly asked her: "Did we just call you?"

Photo credit: ITV
Photo credit: ITV

"I think this could be the first time our team have called the same person twice, it's never happened before," an increasingly suspicious Phil added.

"Who are we talking to?" co-presenter Holly Willoughby, the contestant revealing her name was Caroline.

"Caroline, I'm asking you to be a very honest lady now – have we rung you just now, and we said, 'Hello' and we hung up on you?" Holly then asked.

Photo credit: ITV
Photo credit: ITV

"No I just rang and said, 'Apple a day'," the guest answered, so Holly concluded that it was fine and they could get on with the game.

However, Phil wasn't fully satisfied, interjecting: "Really, really though? Anyway, you've definitely won £500, we've never had that happen before! We've been playing it for ages and it's gone wrong in every conceivable way, but that's a new one.

"To be fair, that was our fault that it did go wrong," he continued. "But Caroline was certainly not going to own up to it. So if you're on Twitter now, complain away! 'It's not fair, it's unfair' – we don't care, we don't read them!"

In the end, Caroline won £3,000 (not too shabby), though Phil was left somewhat red-faced later after she revealed that she was an NHS worker.

The segment got somewhat chaotic again after their prize bag descended from the ceiling before being whizzed back up prematurely.

Holly and Phil also found it strange that a final prize question for Caroline was unrelated to discussion from earlier in the show.

"This has gone entirely off the rails!" Phil joked, while Holly expressed a wish for the prize bag to take her up with it.

Never change, Holly and Phil.

This Morning airs weekdays on ITV at 10am.


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