Phillip Schofield has sensationally resigned from ITV and been dropped by his agent after he admitted to mendacity about an affair with a “younger male” colleague on ‘This Morning’.
Phillip Schofield has sensationally resigned from ITV and been dropped by his agent after he admitted to mendacity about an affair with a ‘younger male’ colleague on ‘This Morning’
The 61-year-old – who has stop the community amid intense scrutiny over his relationship with co-host Holly Willoughby, 42, amid rumours the pair had fallen out – was nonetheless married on the time of his fling.
Phillip, who final week left ‘This Morning’, mentioned in an extended assertion issued to the Daily Mail on Friday (26.05.23): “I’m making this assertion by way of the Daily Mail to whom I’ve already apologised personally for deceptive, via my lawyer who I additionally misled, a few story which they needed to put in writing about me a couple of days in the past.
“The very first thing I wish to say is: I’m deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others a few relationship that I had with somebody engaged on ‘This Morning’.
“I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a youthful male colleague at ‘This Morning’.
“Contrary to hypothesis, while I met the person when he was an adolescent and was requested to assist him to get into tv, it was solely after he began to work on the present that it turned greater than only a friendship.
“That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over.”
Phillip was nonetheless married to his spouse Stephanie Lowe on the time of the affair, who he married in 1993.
He got here out as homosexual in 2020, however remained trustworthy to his long-term companion.
Phillip added in his assertion: “When I chose to come out I did so entirely for my own wellbeing. Nobody ‘forced’ me out.”
And he insisted about not taking authorized motion to attempt to cease the story of his affair beforehand rising: “Neither I nor anybody else, to my information, has ever issued an injunction, tremendous or in any other case, about my relationship with this colleague, he was by no means moved on or sacked by or due to me.
“In an effort to guard my ex-colleague I have not been truthful in regards to the relationship.
“But my recent, unrelated, departure from ‘This Morning’ fuelled speculation and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake it is important for me to be honest now.”
He went on: “I’m painfully acutely aware that I’ve lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and mates, to my brokers, to the media and due to this fact the general public and most significantly of all to my household.
“I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.”
Telling how he was additionally quitting his large upcoming ITV presenting job, he added: “I’ve due to this fact determined to step down from the ‘British Soap Awards’, my final public dedication, and am resigning from ITV with fast impact expressing my immense gratitude to them for all of the superb alternatives that they’ve given me.
“I will reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it.”
Phillip added he was not naming the person with whom he had an affair, including:
“To shield his privateness, I’m not naming this particular person and my deepest want is that each he and his household can now transfer on with their lives free from additional intrusion, and that this assertion will allow them to take action.
“I ask the media now to respect their privacy. They have done nothing wrong, and I ask that their privacy should be respected.”
Phillip has additionally been dropped by his agent YMU, which mentioned in a press release: “Honesty and integrity are core values for YMU’s complete enterprise, defining every little thing we do.
“Talent management is a relationship based entirely on trust. This week, we have learned important new information about our client Phillip Schofield.”
