HOLLY Willoughby collapsed to the floor as she attempted to do the splits on This Morning.
The presenter, 41, was left red-faced when her ‘party trick’ went wrong in the break.
But she took the tumble well and sat laughing on the studio floor.
Sadly for Holly, the cameras were still rolling and recorded the whole thing.
Holly and her co-host Phillip Schofield were discussing their colleague Alison Hammond’s star-studded birthday bash at the weekend.
Attempting to show off a dance move from the evening, Holly threw her leg up in the air to try and do the splits.
But her knee gave way and she ended up on the studio floor.
Explaining what had happened in the break, Holly said: “There was one performance of the night where there was a dance troupe there and they did, what I’ve just discovered is called the death drop.
“One leg goes up and then bang you land in the splits.
“I may have just tried to reenact it. I might have slipped.”
She was shocked to discovered the cameras had caught the embarrassing off-air moment.
“I buckled under the weight,” explained Holly as the clip aired.
“My knee went. It was quite an elegant fall, I didn’t show anything.”
Phillip – who wasn’t at Alison’s birthday celebration – said he was getting the gossip from his co-stars in the advert break.
“Gradually stories are leaking out over Alison Hammond‘s party,” he told viewers.
“She had a joint birthday party with her son and loads of the team went. The photos are unbelievable.”
Explaining why he was absent from the bash, Phillip explained: “It was [my daughter] Ruby’s birthday and she had a massive birthday party so I missed out on the party, but that was lovely to go to too and she had a ball.”
