Holly Willoughby’s new YouTube show sees her reveal secrets about her boozy past and a love of Greggs sausage rolls. The former ITV presenter, 45, has launched a lifestyle series called Together featuring fashion, food and beauty.
Cooking with Stanley Tucci
The opening show features actor and food expert Stanley Tucci. The pair spend 50 minutes cooking a pasta dish Tucci first tried on his TV show Searching for Italy. Before preparing spaghetti con zucchini alla Nerano, they share drinks from the fridge. After pouring Stanley a beer, Holly opens a bottle of pink Pinot Grigio, saying: “That's Pinot Grigio, but it's pink. How weird, that’s like a magic trick. It's a New Zealand one. I quite like a Sauvignon. Pinot Grigio reminds me of when I first started drinking. I would be very hungover on some of this, but on like a bad Pinot Grigio, it can really affect the head.”
Holly also recalls gifting Stanley a toffee vodka she made in the dishwasher. Stanley found it too sweet. Holly says: “It’s not revolting, you can do it with Skittles as well.” She adds: “I am never making you anything like that again.”
Junk food favourites
Later, Holly shows Stanley classic British junk food. He enjoys Pot Noodle types on movie sets but is shocked by a Fray Bentos pie in a tin. Holly describes it as “a cult classic” and says it is good like corned beef in a tin. She then produces a Greggs sausage roll from her freezer, which she normally “sneaks into the air fryer”. Stanley says it was “incredibly tasty” but gave him “tummy trouble”, adding: “The funny thing is, it looks like a strudel.”
The pair enjoy chatting so much they forget to cook the pasta, only boiling it 27 minutes into the show. The finished dish includes fried courgette, parmesan, basil, pasta water and butter. Holly says: “This is going to be in my family repertoire of meals. This is a good one.”
Upcoming guests and comeback
Future episodes of Together feature Katherine Ryan, Joanne McNally, Emma Bunton and Nicole Appleton. The show runs two episodes per week under five pillars: Talk Together, Cook Together, Look Good Together, Better Together and Hang Out Together. The series marks Holly’s return after leaving This Morning in 2023 following a sick kidnap plot. Speaking last week, she told the Mirror: “I needed a bit of time out, just to come to terms with everything. I needed a little space and time with family and my friends, just to be away from work.”
