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A petition calling for Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby to be sacked from This Morning has reached 41,000 signatures in just four days.

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 Holly Willoughby shed a flood of tears and damaged her £10m brand

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 The co-host of This Morning has refused to apologize for the row caused by the allegation

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 Willoughby and Schofield insist the story is false

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 Part of the world's media was in a professional capacity to report on the event, which ran on Tuesday's This Morning.

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 The producer, Laura Harrison, called the hosts 'toxic' and said they should be 'taken off the TV screen'

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 The original target of the petition was 15,000 signatures - however this has since been increased to 50,000 signatures.

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 Comparisons were immediately drawn to David Beckham's refusal to jump the 13-hour mourning line on the same day.

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 Distracted by funeral preparations, released a brief statement defending the pair on Saturday.

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 Comparisons were immediately drawn to David Beckham's refusal to jump the 13-hour mourning line on the same day.

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 If this was an attempt to close the story, it failed

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 Memes and jokes continued to circulate on social media.