Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan found it "very, very weird" to present 'This Morning' after 18 years.
Richard and Judy
The married coupled - who presented the programme from 1988 until 2001 - returned to the popular ITV daytime show on Friday (25.10.19) for a two-hour special.
As the episode opened, Richard said: "As they used to say, do not adjust your sets.
"Hello and welcome to your Friday's 'This Morning'. I was going to say it's lovely to be back, but it's actually weird, isn't it?"
Judy added: "It's very, very weird. We're talking to Paul O'Grady in a minute, he says he's just got new lenses in his specs and that's exactly how it feels here. Really strange."
To which Richard replied: "We didn't have these ... reading glasses.
"Let me tell you, that's not all that's changed."
The pair were the first to present the show from its launch onto TV screens - and it has since become one of the longest-running daytime programmes on British TV.
Asked about what the best thing about working on the programme was, they said: "Knowing, almost from the start, that this would be a ground-breaking concept: the beginning of US-style daytime programming in the UK.
"Granada Television gave us massive backing: there was a real ambition to make it a success. We had a great launch team, great launch editor and total self-belief. So it worked. It was so important to get it right. If we'd screwed it up, that kind of daytime TV would have gone back in the fridge for years."
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