Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield interview guest about scallops instead of Loch Ness

Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield suffer awkward blunder when they interview This Morning guest about scallops… before realising he’s there to talk about the Loch Ness Monster

Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield were left in hysterics on Thursday when they interviewed a guest on This Morning about the wrong topic.

Sitting down with an expert to chat about the Loch Ness Monster, the presenting pair started talking to him about scallops.

But the guest remained clueless, telling them he didn’t really know about the topic.

Mix up: Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield were left in hysterics on Thursday when they interviewed a guest on This Morning about the wrong topic

Mix up: Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield were left in hysterics on Thursday when they interviewed a guest on This Morning about the wrong topic

Holly and Phil thought he was joking around, before realising they had gotten their wires crossed and confused the interview subject.

This left them in fits of laughter, with Phil taking to Instagram to film them explaining what happened for the benefit of his followers.

Holly could be heard tittering in the background, telling producers that she was now ready to chat all things Nessie. 

Legend: Sitting down with an expert to chat about the Loch Ness Monster [pictured in 1934] the presenting pair started talking to him about scallops

Legend: Sitting down with an expert to chat about the Loch Ness Monster [pictured in 1934] the presenting pair started talking to him about scallops

Oops! Holly and Phil thought he was joking around, before realising they had gotten their wires crossed and confused the interview subject

Oops! Holly and Phil thought he was joking around, before realising they had gotten their wires crossed and confused the interview subject

The actual interview was to focus on the news from last week that a sonar has detected a mystery 30ft long shape 500ft below the surface of Loch Ness – immediately sparking excited speculation from Nessie hunters.  

The ‘solid and pretty big’ sonar contact was picked up by a boat owned by Cruise Loch Ness. 

The mystery creature is likely to feed on trout and eels at the bottom of the loch, which has the largest volume of freshwater in Britain.

The funny side: This left them in fits of laughter, with Phil taking to Instagram to film them explaining what happened for the benefit of his followers

The funny side: This left them in fits of laughter, with Phil taking to Instagram to film them explaining what happened for the benefit of his followers

A laugh a minute: Holly could be heard tittering in the background, telling producers that she was now ready to chat all things Nessie

A laugh a minute: Holly could be heard tittering in the background, telling producers that she was now ready to chat all things Nessie

Director Ronald Mackenzie, 48, said: ‘Who knows what it is, there is quite a lot of fish at the bottom of the loch, there is carnivorous trout and eels.

‘I believe that there is something big living deep down in the Loch, who knows what it can be but I would love to think it’s Nessie.

‘It is something which is feeding on eels or trout. It is quite unusual.’

The mass was picked up around 4pm on Wednesday when Ronald was skippering a boat with technology from two years ago, about six miles from Fort August.

She lives: The actual interview was to focus on the news from last week that a sonar has detected a mystery 30ft long shape 500ft below the surface of Loch Ness - immediately sparking excited speculation from Nessie hunters

She lives: The actual interview was to focus on the news from last week that a sonar has detected a mystery 30ft long shape 500ft below the surface of Loch Ness – immediately sparking excited speculation from Nessie hunters

Thriving: The mystery creature is likely to feed on trout and eels at the bottom of the loch, which has the largest volume of freshwater in Britain

Thriving: The mystery creature is likely to feed on trout and eels at the bottom of the loch, which has the largest volume of freshwater in Britain

The father-of-three added: ‘A sonar expert has looked at it and says it’s genuine. There is definitely something there.

‘I’m going to give the image to the company which made the equipment to look at.’

There were 18 ‘confirmed’ sightings of the monster last year, making it the busiest year for claimed sightings since the peak of Nessie-mania in 1983.

Last September, researchers from New Zealand claimed that the Loch Ness Monster could be a large eel, extracting DNA from water samples to test for this.

Research carried out in 2018 revealed that the mythical creature is worth £41 million a year to the Scottish economy.