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ITV's This Morning has launched its own spoof soap opera called Willoughfield.

As part of its soap week, the daytime television show will be airing four episodes to be played out over the course of this week.

Episodes centre around a mystery fire and star co-presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, soap guru Sharon Marshall, Denise Robertson and Sue Hill.

The first instalment aired today (May 13) and saw an arson attack at Phillip and Holly's pub, The Pholly Arms.

Phil, Denise, Sharon and Sue are the four main suspects for the crime, which has left Holly in peril.

Episode one can be found on This Morning's website here and the remaining three episodes will play out this week.

This Morning airs weekdays from 10.30am on ITV.

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I’m sorry, but Deek needs to give it a rest where Will is concerned. If he wants to be Robbie’s friend, then he needs to be his friend which doesn’t mean trashing Will every chance he gets. And attacking Will for not getting involved with the business is unfair simply because from what I understood, Will was just giving Robbie the money to buy the salon, he had no intention of actually being involved in running the place.

Yes, Will was preoccupied with his investigation, but his telling Robbie to go to Deek, who has business experience, seems the proper thing to do to me. More and more, Deek comes off as petty and jealous. No, Will isn’t perfect, but he’s not the monster Deek makes him out to be —at least not yet. But then the writing...

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