Sarah Ferguson offers saucy advice to This Morning callers during relationship segment while co-hosting ITV daytime show

Sarah Ferguson made her debut as a This Morning host alongside Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary today.

During the love and relationships segment, the Duchess, 64, acted as an agony aunt, offering advice to two couples struggling with intimacy issues in their marriages.

And there was a running theme in Sarah’s responses, with the mother-of-two suggesting both callers reignite spark by spicing things up in the bedroom. 

‘Get a lovely saucy underwear department in your chest of drawers and you really make the hair, you know, blow dry the hair and take him out on a treat. 

‘It’s the element of surprise and it will bring the magic back into your relationship,’ the ex-wife of Prince Andrew continued.

In another part of the show, the three presenters interviewed Sir Cliff Richard – and Sarah was noticeably starstuck.

‘I can’t get over it, it’s just incredible,’ she said.

‘You know, Sir Cliff, sitting here with you, I’m lost for words and that’s very unlike me.’

The first caller, Suzanne, explained how her she and her husband are struggling to balance demanding careers with a young child.

Sarah asked: ‘Is your husband feeling left out a bit?’

Suzanne replied: ‘I think so yes. The other night, he had the tree lights on and wanted to do something and I was like I can’t I have to go to bed.’

‘Right, okay, so the first question I have for you is do you have a friend next door or do you have a mother-in-law or your mum or someone that could just babysit or come round while you take your husband for a great surprise?

‘You pop down and get a lovely saucy underwear department in your chest of drawers and you really make the hair, you know, blow dry the hair and take him out on a treat.

‘It needs to be more treats that he’s lost for words.

‘So you say to him, “Don’t worry tonight darling, we are gonna pop off somewhere” and you’ve arranged the whole thing and it’s all organised. 

‘It’s the element of surprise and it will bring the magic back into your relationship.’

The caller replied: ‘That’s really good advice […] We need to stop letting my little boy run our marriage really… that’s really good advice.’

‘Well, the good news is is that you’re addressing it and the minute you put light on it and address it, the minute it’s going to change.’

‘You’ve got this Suzanne and I’m so proud of you calling today and being so brave to ring us. Well done you!’

‘Now get that sexy underwear out!’

‘I will I promise,’ the mother responded.

The second caller, Claire, who admitted to being shocked at seeing the Duchess on the television show, described how her 12-year relationship had come to a standstill.

‘Do I detect that you might be doing the date night down the gym or the date night fitting in with your own life, is that right?,’ Sarah asked.

‘Previously, we had mutual things to do. We used to climb together, we used to go to the gym together,’ the caller responded.

She continued: ‘This have stopped, so I just want to bring us back together again.’

‘Claire, do you love him?,’ Fergie asked. 

‘Yes, definitely!,’ the caller confirmed.

‘Great, that’s the first step. It’s so exciting, you love him so it’s worth fighting for.

‘I think you need to get a weekend away climbing and he’s not allowed to complain, it’s a complete surprise and all the friends are brought in on it and you have to go.

It’s an afternoon on Friday, get time off work, the boss is all into it as well and you’d say “Darling, it’s your weekend, it’s especially for you”

‘And I know the listeners are gonna say it should be up to the man to do it but, you know, women are in charge.

‘So you might as well take charge and go climbing for the weekend.’ 

‘Absolutely, I just need to go back down that road,’ the caller responded.

‘We have a bit of an obstacle because I actually had an injury seven odd years ago and I’ve hurt my back. But we need to find something that we still have an interest in and I will get there,’ she continued.

Sarah interrupted: ‘Well, hold on a minute, what’s his favourite place to go? You could say “Darling, I’ve booked your favourite place to climb, I will just be, you know, just waiting when you come back, you go climbing and when you come back we can have a lovely weekend with the saucy underwear on.’

‘Okay. To be honest, we love Wales, Snowdonia, I’ve been with him once down there and it’s absolutely amazing so I think that’s probably one of the places we will definitely revisit,’ the caller said.

‘I was about to say Snowdonia because there’s lovely little hotels and wonderful, special little restaurants and you can make the whole weekend,’ Sarah added.

‘It doesn’t have to actually be around the climb but it is around the climb of bringing back memories of your past when you were so happy. Rekindle.’

Dermot then asked if the little, everyday things are more important than grand gestures. 

Alison pointed out that you have to start making more of an effort after marriage. 

‘And the loving notes in the pocket. I love a little note in the pocket,’ Sarah said.

‘I love the moment where he suddenly or she suddenly puts their hand in the pocket and sees a love note. I used to do that – put them in the squash shoes.

‘Or send a text saying “I can’t wait for you to get home”,’ Alison suggested.

‘I get a lot of them from Alison, it gets me in a lot of trouble,’ Dermot quipped.  

Gesturing scratching, Sarah added: ‘I’m wondering about your nails, Alison.’

‘Oh yeah, scratch of the back! Get some nails and give him a little scratch,’ the presenter replied. 

In another part of the show, the three presenters spoke to Sir Cliff Richard about his upcoming album Cliff With Strings – and Sarah was noticeably starstuck.

‘I can’t get over it, it’s just incredible,’ she said.

‘You know, Sir Cliff, sitting here with you, I’m lost for words and that’s very unlike me.’

Turning to Alison and Dermot, Fergie continued: ‘I remember Living Doll and you weren’t born!’ 

What’s more, Fergie labelled Sir Cliff ‘incredible’ as she praised his dance moves.

In response, the star said: ‘I keep myself fit. I’m on a regime of eating […] I went through a period of eating [one meal a day] but I’ve started with eating what’s right for your blood type and I stick with that. Sometimes, I realise that I’m just not hungry!’

‘Can I come over to your house and stay a week?,’ Alison joked. 

‘The most important thing is that you’re here, new book, new record, new album, new everything, and you really are as humble and as kind as you’ve always been,’ the Duchess added.

Despite being divorced for over 27 years, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson remain close friends and live together at Royal Lodge in the Windsor estate.

In 2018, Sarah told the Daily Mail: ‘We’re the happiest divorced couple in the world. We’re divorced to each other, not from each other […] My duty is to him. I am so proud of him. I stand by him and always will. The way we are is our fairytale.’

Three months after their engagement was announced, Sarah and Andrew married at Westminster Abbey in July 1986.

Speaking to Piers Morgan in 2011, Sarah said: ‘We married for total love. And when I went up that aisle, I had… I married my man.’

The couple had their first child Princess Beatrice in August 1988 and Princess Eugenie followed in March 1990.

However, the couple legally separated just two years later. At the time, Sarah cited Prince Andrew’s naval commitments as the reason the marriage broke down.

She told US presenter Ernie Manouse in 2010: ‘My deal was that I was marrying my man, who happened to be a prince and a naval officer.

‘But what I got was not the man, I got the palace and didn’t get him… and the courtiers told me I had to go to Buckingham Palace and he had to go to sea. For our marriage, I saw him 40 days a year.’