Laravel Database storing only value not array

$visitorphonenumber=DB::select('select phonenumber from visitortable where email=?',[Auth::user()->email]);

$booking=new bookingmodel();
$booking->visitorphonenumber=$visitorphonenumber;

This stores the value like [{"phonenumber":"9874589608"}] in database but I want to store only the 9874589608

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