With regular presenters Cat Deeley<\/a> and Ben Shephard set to go on summer holiday, hosting duties will be split between a range of replacements, including Rylan Clark<\/a>, Paddy McGuinness and Josie Gibson.<\/p>\n This Morning shared the news on social media, writing on Instagram: \u201cGet your passports ready! From sofa to sun lounger, brighten up your mornings with our all-star lineup. This summer only on This Morning.\u201d<\/p>\n Deeley and Shephard have fronted the programme together since March 2024. <\/p>\n The stand-in presenters were announced in pairs, with the broadcaster sharing that McGuinness would be paired with Gibson, Andi Peters would be partnered with Rochelle Humes, and Craig Doyle will appear alongside Angela Scanlon. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, Clark will be teamed with Gibson, Sian Welby with Joel Dommett. and Doyle again with Christine Lampard.<\/p>\n Clark \u2013 also known mononymously as Rylan \u2013 first appeared on This Morning in 2013, after rising to fame on The X Factor.<\/p>\n The 37-year-old presenter took an unofficial six-month absence from This Morning following a controversy over his remarks about immigration last year.<\/p>\n Appearing on the show back in August 2025, Clark said: \u201c[The UK] is built on immigration \u2013 legal immigration. A lot of the nurses, the doctors that have saved my mum\u2019s life, have come over here from other countries. They\u2019re living a great life, they\u2019re paying into this tax system, they\u2019re helping this country thrive.<\/p>\n \u201cI find it absolutely insane that all these people are risking their lives coming across the Channel. And when they get here, it does seem, and I think this is why a lot of Labour voters as well are saying there\u2019s something wrong, it feels like, \u2018Welcome, come on in.\u2019 That\u2019s the narrative we’re being fed.\u201d<\/p>\n Clark then added that there is \u201csomething wrong\u201d with the way refugees are welcomed, claiming that they are given an \u201ciPad\u201d and a \u201cgames room\u201d in a \u201cfour star hotel\u201d. <\/p>\n \u201cHere\u2019s the iPad. Here\u2019s the NHS in reception of your hotel. Here\u2019s three meals a day. Here\u2019s a games room in the hotel. Have a lovely time and welcome,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cHow can it be that if I turn up at Heathrow Airport as a British citizen and I\u2019ve left my passport in Spain, I\u2019ve got to stand at that airport and won\u2019t be let in. But if I arrive on a boat from Calais, I get taken to a four-star hotel?\u201d<\/p>\n Clark\u2019s remarks prompted over 700 complaints to Ofcom, with viewers pointing out that he had repeated false information about the UK\u2019s immigration setup.<\/p>\n However, he later returned to This Morning during the Easter holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-579728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ben](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-03-24-at-12-15-48.png\")
Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley will be taking a summer break from \u2018This Morning\u2019 (ITV)<\/p>\n