SH0CKING CONFESSION: Cat Deeley sh0cked This Morning viewers and co-star Ben Shephard with her CONFESSION on the ITV phone-in competition

Ben, 50, appeared to awkwardly scramble to cover up the admission on Tuesday morning when Cat, 48, revealed she’d previously cheated at the game.

Joined by regular show guests Gyles Brandreth and Ashley James, Cat and Ben wrapped up the show’s news segment by sharing the details of the Spin To Win competition.

The game sees viewers call up the studio live to see if they will win huge cash prizes from a giant spinning wheel, or take home a consolation prize of a goodie bag.

Sharing the terms and conditions of the competition, the presenting duo revealed lucky winners could take home a maximum prize of £12,000.

And after explaining the rules, Cat turned to her co-star to wish him ‘good luck’, to which a confused Ben responded: ‘Are you saying that because of me?’

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Cat Deeley left This Morning viewers and her co-star Ben Shephard in shock as she admitted to CHEATING during the ITV phone-in competition

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Ben, 50, appeared to awkwardly scramble to make sense of the admission on Tuesday morning when Cat, 48, revealed she’d previously cheated at the game

He then teased: ‘We know what happened when we’ve done this in the past,’ to which Cat then admitted: ‘We cheat a little bit!’

Shocked at what Cat had said, an open-mouthed Gyles, 77, quickly covered up the admission by adding: ‘I don’t think we do!’

Ben added: ‘We know we never have, we never will. We can’t!’

Grinning at the camera, leaving her co-stars awkwardly laughing, Cat added: ‘Sometimes, people don’t pick up the phone…’

Scrambling for words, Ben then joked: ‘You know Ralf Little and Will Mellor have that button they can hit when someone’s going to say something, should’ve hit that!’

On Tuesday’s show, actress Selma Blair opened up on the process of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in an emotional chat with Cat and Ben.

The Legally Blonde star, 53, took to the ITV sofa to open up about how doctors dismissed her symptoms as depression and told her it was ‘all in her head’ as she desperately searched for answers about her health.

Selma, who was joined by her service dog Scout for the segment, revealed all about her decades-long struggle with getting a diagnosis.

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Gyles, 77, quickly covered up the game cheat admission by adding: ‘I don’t think we do!’

She was finally told she had MS, which is a is a lifelong condition that affects the brain and nerves, in August 2018 after she finally was told to have a MRI scan of her brain.

Speaking of her early symptoms, Selma said: ‘I had symptoms since as young as I can remember, with my eye sight and we just never really diagnosed it.

‘It could be painful in the eye, pressure in the eye, the eye nerve gets quite inflamed, but with relapsing MS it can also go away, so it can be tricky for doctors especially when you’re young and quite capable.

‘I’d do neurological tests at the doctors, and I could do all that – so there were things that were missed, but I had chronic headache, chronic fever, I had a dropped leg, I developed tics sometimes, which was when I would actually be in a flare as a child.

‘I did spend my entire life with doctors really trying to figure out why I was so tired, but it was just misdiagnosed as depression, because extreme fatigue can seem like depression.

‘I kind of went that way and figured, “I guess it’s all in my head”, it was confusing.’

She went on to explain how things got progressively worse: ‘My skin had fallen apart, my body and the fatigue. I’d be riding my horse and get whiplash because I wasn’t strong enough to carry myself.

‘I’d go to the doctor quite often and say, “I can’t stay awake” and they’d say, “Well, what mother can?”‘

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