VANESSA'S PLEA
Tearful Vanessa Feltz begs This Morning fans to phone in and tell her how to get over heartbreak
TEARFUL Vanessa Feltz asked This Morning fans to tell her how to get over heartbreak today after she dumped her fiancé amid cheating suspicions.
TalkTV favourite and agony aunt Vanessa, 60, joined the show for the first time since her split from Phats & Small singer Ben Ofoedu after 16 years together.
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The star told This Morning hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby that she was currently "in the eye of the storm".
She added: "I feel sad and I feel hurt and I feel terribly humiliated."
Vannessa is a regular guest and helps viewers through their personal problems, but Phil and Holly were on hand to offer her some words of comfort.
Phil said: "We have been talking you through this for weeks.
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"There are a hundred hugs for you when you go off camera today."
The star told them when she found evidence apparently showing Ben had cheated on her it had been "a terrible shock" and "also a kind of gradual thing" as she pieced things together.
Vanessa continued: "I don’t want to dwell on the details, I really do want to focus on the future."
Phil told her: "There really is a bright future for you."
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And Vanessa said: "I am telling myself there is a future, I really want there to be.
"I think the best thing to do is to gather all the things you love, the people you love, and keep them close."
The TV and radio star then turned the tables on viewers and asked them to help her during the phone-in segment.
Asked what the day's topic was, she became tearful and said: "It's about broken hearts really."
She added: "I would love it if people called in and told me how they got over heartbreak.
"I’ll take any advice I can get, from anyone, if anyone wants help I'll be there for them but also if anyone has anything they can tell me.
"I’d be really grateful to recieve it, because I feel like I’m in the eye of the storm, I really do."
Viewers took to Twitter to throw their support behind the legendary presenter.
One said: "I know we all moan & joke on this hashtag - myself as much as anyone, however I really do feel bad for Vanessa, wishing her all the best and that she has time to heal and not feel embarrassed."
A second viewer said: "Oh huge hugs to dear Vanessa Feltz. Good on her that she is going to keep strong after her split from Ben. Lovely lady Xxxxx."
And a third penned: "I feel so sorry for Vanessa. She was really in love with Ben, that shone through over the years."
Earlier, the star had said she had no idea her longterm partner had been seemingly pursuing intimacy elsewhere.
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She said: "I believed wholeheartedly in it and so when you have to end a relationship, it is very hard. I'm feeling it just like anybody else."
She admitted she "can't sleep at all" but was grateful for everyone's support and messages, which she reads in the "middle of the night".
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