ITV This Morning's Phillip Schofield breaks down talking to Dame Kelly Holmes about coming out

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Holly Willoughby was quick to comfort her This Morning co-host as Phillip Schofield momentarily burst into tears while talking to Dame Kelly Holmes about coming out. The two-time gold medal-winning Olympic champion told the world she was gay over the weekend after keeping her sexuality private for over 30 years.

Dame Kelly, now 52, said she realised she was gay at the age of 17 after kissing a fellow female soldier, and that her family and friends have known since 1997. She has spoken out during Pride Month and ahead of a documentary about her experiences called Being Me, where she talks to LGBTQ+ soldiers about their lives in the military now.

The sports star appeared on This Morning on Monday (June 20) to talk to Holly and Phillip, who himself revealed he was gay on the ITV daytime show in February 2021.

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Things got off to an emotional start as the hosts introduced Kelly before showing a clip of her upcoming film which heard her say she was 'petrified' about making the doc. Returning to the studio, Dame Kelly was seen on the sofa getting emotional.

"This has been tough, this has been a tough 34 years," Holly said before saying that while family and friends knew, "Publicly saying this out loud and letting everyone know yesterday... waking up this morning, finally having your truth out there, how do you feel?" Dame Kelly admitted to feeling both 'relief and apprehension'.

"I was at home and on social media and the reaction was amazing but I still felt it wasn't the real world and coming out today and sitting here now, it feels like the real world and it's really hard," she added. "I've been having