STEPHEN Mulhern has recalled the horrifying moment his prank on Holly Willoughby backfired – and he instead got guest Rachel Stevens instead.
The presenter co-hosted a show called Ministry of Mayhem with the This Morning star in the early noughties.
They both got gunged on the show and needed a shower afterwards, so when it was Holly’s turn to be covered in gunge, he decided to pull the prank.
“On April Fool’s, me and Holly Willoughby were presenting a show called Ministry of Mayhem,” Stephen told the Mirror.
“We had a shared dressing room with a shower in it, because we were always getting gunged.
“I knew that in this particular episode, it was Holly who was being gunged at the end, so I took the cover off the shower and filled it with coffee granules, so she’d essentially be boiling a nice cup of coffee for her head.
“Sadly, Rachel Stevens was a guest and she got randomly pie-d. I heard Holly say, ‘Don’t worry, we have a lovely shower in our dressing room. You use it first’.”
Before Stephen remembered what he’d done, it was too late.
He admits he hasn’t seen Rachel Stevens since that day – which may or may not be good luck.
Stephen is currently the host of Ant and Dec Saturday Night Takeaway spin-off show, In For A Penny.
However, fans won’t be seeing him on Britain’s Got More Talent this year as ITV axed the spin-off.
Speaking about the decision to The Sun for the first time, Stephen said it was a move the show’s judges Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, David Walliams and Amanda Holden and hosts Ant and Dec disagreed with.
He said: “It’s a shame and when it was decided they weren’t going to do the ITV2 version I think the consensus among the boys and judges was this is a massive gap.
“We did it from day one, when there were only three judges. Do I think it’s a shame? I do. We got away with a lot of stuff.”
