Phillip Schofield – latest: MP mocks Holly Willoughby’s ‘are you OK?’ speech during ITV grilling
MP John Nicholson mocked Holly Willoughby’s opening statement from Monday’s episode of This Morning during a Culture, Media and Sport Committee taking place in Parliament today (6 June).
The latest episode of the ITV daytime show opened with no mention of Phillip Schofield, in stark contrast to yesterday’s broadcast, which saw Willoughby give an emotional statement addressing the scandal surrounding her former co-host.
She opened the show on Monday by asking viewers if they were “OK” following the fall-out, words which were quoted by Nicholson as he questioned ITV bosses about the ongoing scandal.
Schofield, 61, gave an interview to the BBC last week, where he described the impact of the media onslaught since he admitted to having a relationship with a much younger This Morning employee while he was still married.
Stars including Piers Morgan, Jeremy Clarkson and Rupert Everett have all questioned the intensity of the backlash against Schofield. Writing in his column over the weekend, former Top Gear star Clarkson said he was “baffled” by the uproar.
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VOICES: My boss said he’d sack me if I didn’t flirt – I bet Schofield and Clarkson never had to deal with that
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Don’t dismiss the Phillip Schofield scandal as a ‘workplace affair’. It’s more than that, especially when you’re in it like I was, writes Allegra Chapman.
Read more:
Opinion: My boss said he’d sack me if I didn’t flirt
Don’t dismiss the Phillip Schofield scandal as a ‘workplace affair’. It’s more than that, especially when you’re in it like I was, writes Allegra Chapman
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The 5 biggest takeaways from Phillip Schofield’s BBC interview
02:30 , Inga Parkel
On Friday 2 June, the BBC broadcasted an interview between Phillip Schofield and the Today programme’s Amol Rajan.
In the 43-minute-long conversation, the former This Morning host shared some insight into his affair with a “much younger” colleague, and his feelings on the subsequent fallout.
As well as denying paying anyone off to conceal the nature of his relationship with the coworker, Schofield also revealed that his mental health had taken a severe decline.
Here are five major takeaways from the interview:
5 biggest revelations from Phillip Schofield’s interview about affair scandal
Former ‘This Morning’ host said his career is ‘done’, and that he thinks the ‘massive’ backlash is due to homophobia
Alison Hammond breaks down while discussing ‘painful’ Phillip Schofield interview
02:00 , Inga Parkel
Holly Willoughby is not the first This Morning presenter to have displayed emotion publicly in the wake of Phillip Schofield’s departure.
On Friday’s edition (2 June) of the show, Alison Hammond addressed Schofield’s interviews in which he admitted to having lied about an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a “much younger” colleague.
Speaking with co-host Dermot O’Leary, Hammond admitted how “painful” she found the situation. “Obviously, I loved Phillip Schofield and it’s weird because I still love Phillip Schofield.
Isobel Lewis has the full report:
Alison Hammond breaks down while discussing Phillip Schofield on This Morning
‘As a family, we’re all really struggling to process everything,’ presenter said
Holly Willoughby has awkward on-air moment with Ruth Langsford after Eamonn Holmes’s This Morning criticism
01:30 , Inga Parkel
Watch the moment Holly Willoughby had an awkward on-air encounter with Ruth Langsford, whose husband has been outwardly critical of Ms Willoughby following.
Holly Willoughby has awkward on-air moment with Ruth Langsford
Watch the moment Holly Willoughby had an awkward on-air encounter with Ruth Langsford, whose husband has been outwardly critical of Ms Willoughby following. During This Morning, Ms Willoughby had to hand over to Ms Langsford to preview her show Loose Woman, with both smiling through the palpable tension. Eamonn Holmes has branded Ms Willoughby a “big mouth” and even called her to be sacked after it became public knowledge that Philip Schofield lied about an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague. Meanwhile, Holly Willoughby and Ruth Langsford continue to both work on ITV’s daytime flagship talkshows.
Caroline Flack’s mother Christine issues strong advice to Phillip Schofield
01:00 , Inga Parkel
The mother of the late Love Island host Caroline Flack, who took her own life three years ago, has issued a heartfelt plea to Phillip Schofield: “Wait to see what happens and don’t do anything stupid.”
Read more:
Don’t do anything stupid, Caroline Flack’s mum tells Phillip Schofield
Christine Flack claims ITV has not learnt lessons from her daughter’s suicide
Phillip Schofield claims he ‘understands how Caroline Flack felt’ after This Morning departure
Wednesday 7 June 2023 00:30 , Inga Parkel
Piers Morgan defends Schofield again
Wednesday 7 June 2023 00:00 , Inga Parkel
The former ITV star has urged people to lay off Schofield while suggesting he “probably shouldn’t have” compared himself to Caroline Flack in a recent BBC interview.
Piers Morgan urges ‘baying Twitter mob’ to lay off ‘broken’ Phillip Schofield
Former ‘Good Morning Britain’ host has been speaking out in defence of the disgraced ITV star
Tuesday 6 June 2023 23:30 , Inga Parkel
Yikes... an old advertisement from secondhand car company We Buy Any Car has resurfaced, bringing one Twitter user to ask: “Has a video ever aged as bad?”
In the old commercial, a voiceover begins: “At webuyanycar.com, we live by one simple rule: be more like Phillip Schofield. It might sound weird, but hear us out. By being like the most loved man in Britain, unofficially, we hope to make the whole selling a car thing nicer.”
Has a video ever #aged as bad?
Be #MoreLike #PhillipSchofield... pic.twitter.com/ZJXXfP4Rif— Kris Mathers 🧑💻 (@nuclear_AI) May 29, 2023
The car company began its five-year partnership with Schofield in 2017, before it abruptly came to an end in late 2022, amid the ex-presenter’s Queuegate scandal.
However, the company confirmed that the end of his contract had nothing to do with the outrage he sparked among ITV viewers, who falsely accused him and co-host Holly Willoughby of skipping the line to see the late Queen’s coffin at her funeral.
Piers Morgan gives his take on the former This Morning presenter’s affair with a runner
Tuesday 6 June 2023 23:00 , Inga Parkel
"Everybody knew at ITV... the young man concerned in this story confessed his undying love for Phillip Schofield!"
Piers Morgan gives his take on the former This Morning presenter's affair with a runner.@piersmorgan | @TalkTV | #PMU pic.twitter.com/23DnVoSBuN— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) June 5, 2023
WATCH: Amanda Holden mocks Holly Willoughby’s This Morning message
Tuesday 6 June 2023 22:30 , Inga Parkel
Phillip Schofield fears leaving home amid fallout from secret affair
Tuesday 6 June 2023 22:00 , Inga Parkel
In his first interview since leaving This Morning, Phillip Schofield spoke openly about the decline in his mental health since the fallout that followed coming clean about his extramarital affair at work.
In the ex-TV presenter’s first interview since he resigned from This Morning and ITV at large, Schofield said he feared getting spat on in public.
“I do not know a time I will be able to walk out of the door,” Schofield told The Sun. “I don’t have any spirit. My friends tell me, ‘It will get better’. It won’t. Not now. Not this one.”
Read more:
Phillip Schofield fears leaving home amid fallout from secret affair
Former ‘This Morning’ host said he doesn’t know if he’ll ever ‘be able to walk out of the door’
The inside story of Phillip Schofield’s shocking downfall
Tuesday 6 June 2023 21:30 , Inga Parkel
“British light entertainment had not seen a rise and fall so dramatic since the downfall of Michael Barrymore, whose career was destroyed when a man was found dead in the swimming pool of Barrymore’s £2m mansion after a party in 2001. The circumstances are very different, but Schofield’s downward trajectory has been no less cataclysmic.”
Read the full feature here:
Technicolour nightmare: the inside story of Phillip Schofield’s shocking downfall
For more than four decades, the former ‘This Morning’ presenter was synonymous with bulletproof affability, writes Ed Power. It’s only made his cataclysmic fall from grace that much more surprising
BBC ‘eyeing up poaching Holly Willoughby’ after ITV’s Phillip Schofield scandal
Tuesday 6 June 2023 21:00 , Inga Parkel
While Holly Willoughby’s return to This Morning, following the controversy surrounding her former co-host Phillip Schofield, has been severely mocked by politicians and high-profile names alike, Willoughby is reportedly being eyed up for presenting opportunities by the BBC.
The Mirror is reporting that since Willoughby hosted the celebrity challenge show Freeze the Fear on BBC One last year, bosses at the rival broadcaster have been keen to poach her.
Read more:
BBC ‘eyeing up poaching Holly Willoughby’ after ITV’s Phillip Schofield scandal
Willoughby has been laying low since Schofield admitted to ‘unwise’ but ‘not illegal’ affair with younger colleague
MP pokes fun at Holly Willoughby’s statement on Phillip Schofield
Tuesday 6 June 2023 20:30 , Inga Parkel
Eamonn Holmes launches yet another attack on ‘big mouth’ Holly Willoughby
Tuesday 6 June 2023 20:00 , Inga Parkel
Eamonn Holmes has launched yet another attack on disgraced former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield and his ex-co-host, Holly Willoughby.
My colleague Louis Chilton reports:
Eamonn Holmes launches yet another attack on This Morning hosts
Willoughby returned to ‘This Morning’ alongside Josie Gibson on Monday 5 June
Holly Willoughby presents second broadcast since Phillip Schofield controversy
Tuesday 6 June 2023 19:30 , Inga Parkel
Holly Willoughby and Josie Gibson opened today’s episode with big smiles, launching straight into the news of the day, including Prince Harry arriving in court for the Mirror publisher phone-hacking trial. The show then went on to feature interviews with Sarah Beeny, who talked about her cancer journey and her new documentary, and The Repair Shop’s Suzie Fletcher, who discussed her work with leather.
There was no mention of Phillip Schofield throughout the episode’s two-and-a-half-hour run – this was in stark contrast to Monday’s episode, which opened with emotional words from Willoughby on the scandal surrounding her former co-host.
Piers Morgan defends ‘good friend’ Holly Willoughby
Tuesday 6 June 2023 19:00 , Inga Parkel
Former ITV star defended Willoughby from criticism following her divisive Phillip Schofield speech.
Read more:
Piers Morgan defends Holly Willoughby after ‘patronising’ Phillip Schofield speech
‘She is in an impossible position,’ broadcaster said
Amanda Holden mocks Holly Willoughby’s ‘Are you OK?’ This Morning statement
Tuesday 6 June 2023 18:30 , Inga Parkel
Amanda Holden is the latest to brutally mock Holly Willoughby’s statement made on This Morning on Monday (5 June) after she presented the show alone for the first time since Philip Schofield’s exit.
Read what Holden had to say here:
Amanda Holden mocks Holly Willoughby’s ‘Are you OK?’ This Morning statement
Willoughby’s remark on Monday’s show has been subject to criticism online
Video: ITV boss questioned over ‘toxic aubergine' comment made by This Morning editor
Tuesday 6 June 2023 18:00 , Inga Parkel
David Baddiel mocks Willoughby’s emotional statement on Schofield
Tuesday 6 June 2023 17:30 , Inga Parkel
The comedian wasn’t impressed when the This Morning host opened yesterday’s episode by asking viewers, “Are you OK?”
When Holly Willoughby said "Firstly, are you OK?" I genuinely thought she was talking to someone behind camera, before realising that of course she was talking to us, the great British deeply-traumatised by everything's that happened on an ITV morning show public.
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) June 5, 2023
This Morning viewing figures shot up briefly for Willoughby’s statement yesterday
Tuesday 6 June 2023 17:00 , Inga Parkel
According to TV writer Scott Bryan, This Morning had a surge of an additional 300,000 viewers yesterday at 10am, who were tuning in to see Holly Willoughby’s statement on the Schofield fall-out.
“Then 200,000 of those viewers immediately went away afterwards,” he tweeted.
Everything we know about Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield’s ‘fall-out’
Tuesday 6 June 2023 16:30 , Inga Parkel
Before Phillip Schofield admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a younger This Morning colleague, his departure from the show was thought to have stemmed from a rift with co-host Holly Willoughby.
Jacob Stolworthy has the details of their rumoured fallout:
Everything we know about the Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby ‘fall-out’
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby news
VOICES: Holly tried her damnedest – but This Morning is anything but a functional family
Tuesday 6 June 2023 16:00 , Inga Parkel
According to Samuel Fishwick, Holly Willoughby’s speech on yesterday’s This Morning was not enough to convince him of all being well on set.
For him, it was an example of putting on a great show for the viewers.
“What a masterful performance this was: smart and heartfelt, even if scripted,” he writes. “Revenge dress. Revenge hair. The textbook power plays with which to exorcise a disgraced work husband.”
Read the full op-ed below:
Opinion: Holly tried – but This Morning is anything but a functional family
What a masterful performance this was: smart and heartfelt, even if scripted. Revenge dress. Revenge hair
Holly Willoughby returns to This Morning sofa after Phillip Schofield scandal
Tuesday 6 June 2023 15:34 , Inga Parkel
ICYMI: This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby returned to the softa this week for the first time since her former co-host Phillip Schofield resigned from the show and ITV altogether.
Schofield’s exit came as he admitted to lying about having an “unfair, but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague.
On Monday (5 June), Willoughby made her highly anticipated return, where she gave an emotional speech addressing the controversy, saying she felt “shaken, troubled, let down and worried for “the wellbeing of people on all sides of what’s going on”.
Read more:
This Morning viewers react to Holly Willoughby’s ‘ridiculous’ Phillip Schofield speech
‘I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite as patronising,’ one viewer said
MP pokes fun at Holly Willoughby’s statement on Phillip Schofield
Tuesday 6 June 2023 14:54 , Roisin O'Connor
Eamonn Holmes launches yet another attack on ‘big mouth’ Holly Willoughby
Tuesday 6 June 2023 14:01 , Roisin O'Connor
Eamonn Holmes has launched yet another attack on disgraced former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield and his ex-co-host, Holly Willoughby.
My colleague Louis Chilton reports:
Eamonn Holmes launches yet another attack on This Morning hosts
This Morning editor’s aubergine rant was ‘extremely ill-judged’, ITV boss says
Tuesday 6 June 2023 13:31 , Roisin O'Connor
An ITV boss has said comments by Martin Frizell were “extremely ill-judged”, after the This Morning editor referred to aubergines when asked about allegations of a “toxic” work environment on the programme.
At a Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing on Tuesday 6 June to talk about the draft Media Bill, Magnus Brooke, group director of strategy, policy and regulation at ITV, was questioned about the show by MP John Nicolson.
Mr Nicolson called Mr Frizell’s remarks to a journalist “outrageously dismissive and flippant on camera about an immensely serious issue”.
Full story:
This Morning editor’s aubergine rant was ‘extremely ill-judged’, ITV boss says
Piers Morgan defends ‘good friend’ Holly Willoughby
Tuesday 6 June 2023 13:00 , Ellie Harrison
Former ITV star defended Willoughby from criticism following her divisive Phillip Schofield speech.
Piers Morgan defends Holly Willoughby after ‘patronising’ Phillip Schofield speech
That’s a wrap on Tuesday’s episode of This Morning
Tuesday 6 June 2023 12:30 , Ellie Harrison
Holly Willoughby and Josie Gibson opened today’s episode with big smiles, launching straight into the news of the day, including Prince Harry arriving in court for the Mirror publisher phone-hacking trial. The show then went on to feature interviews with Sarah Beeny, who talked about her cancer journey and her new documentary, and The Repair Shop’s Suzie Fletcher, who discussed her work with leather.
There was no mention of Phillip Schofield throughout the episode’s two-and-a-half-hour run – this was in stark contrast to Monday’s episode, which opened with emotional words from Willoughby on the scandal surrounding her former co-host.
Here is footage of the MP asking the ITV representative ‘are you OK?'
Tuesday 6 June 2023 11:45 , Ellie Harrison
Video: ITV boss questioned over ‘toxic aubergine' comment made by This Morning editor
Tuesday 6 June 2023 11:44 , Ellie Harrison
David Baddiel mocks Willoughby’s emotional statement on Schofield
Tuesday 6 June 2023 11:19 , Ellie Harrison
The comedian wasn’t impressed when the This Morning host opened yesterday’s episode by asking viewers, “Are you OK?”
When Holly Willoughby said "Firstly, are you OK?" I genuinely thought she was talking to someone behind camera, before realising that of course she was talking to us, the great British deeply-traumatised by everything's that happened on an ITV morning show public.
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) June 5, 2023
This Morning viewing figures shot up briefly for Willoughby’s statement yesterday
Tuesday 6 June 2023 10:50 , Ellie Harrison
According to TV writer Scott Bryan, This Morning had a surge of an additional 300,000 viewers yesterday at 10am, who were tuning in to see Holly Willoughby’s statement on the Schofield fall-out.
“Then 200,000 of those viewers immediately went away afterwards,” he tweeted.
Sarah Beeny gives This Morning interview about breast cancer treatment
Tuesday 6 June 2023 10:37 , Ellie Harrison
TV present Beeny is on the sofa now with Willoughby and Gibson. Read more about her cancer journey and her new documentary here.
Sarah Beeny: Why I’m no longer scared of cancer
Piers Morgan defends Schofield again
Tuesday 6 June 2023 10:34 , Ellie Harrison
The former ITV star has urged people to lay off Schofield while suggesting he “probably shouldn’t have” compared himself to Caroline Flack in a recent BBC interview.
Piers Morgan urges ‘baying Twitter mob’ to lay off ‘broken’ Phillip Schofield
Tuesday’s This Morning opens with no mention of Phillip Schofield
Tuesday 6 June 2023 10:04 , Ellie Harrison
Holly Willoughby and Josie Gibson opened today’s episode with big smiles, launching straight into the news of the day, including Prince Harry arriving in court for the Mirror publisher phone-hacking trial. This was in stark contrast to Monday’s episode, which opened with emotional words from Willoughby on the Schofield fall-out.
Eamonn Holmes launches yet another attack on ‘big mouth’ Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield
Tuesday 6 June 2023 09:40 , Roisin O'Connor
Eamonn Holmes has launched yet another attack on disgraced former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield and his ex-co-host, Holly Willoughby.
My colleague Louis Chilton reports:
Eamonn Holmes launches yet another attack on This Morning hosts
Piers Morgan defends ‘good friend’ Holly Willoughby after ‘patronising’ Phillip Schofield speech
Tuesday 6 June 2023 09:00 , Peony Hirwani
Piers Morgan has defended Holly Willoughby from criticism following her divisive Phillip Schofield speech.
Piers Morgan defends Holly Willoughby after ‘patronising’ Phillip Schofield speech
Voices: Holly tried her damnedest – but This Morning is anything but a functional family
Tuesday 6 June 2023 08:30 , Peony Hirwani
“What a masterful performance this was: smart and heartfelt, even if scripted. Revenge dress. Revenge hair,” writes Samuel Fishwick.
Opinion: Holly tried – but This Morning is anything but a functional family
Holly Willoughby has awkward on-air moment with Ruth Langsford after Eamonn Holmes’s This Morning criticism
Tuesday 6 June 2023 08:00 , Peony Hirwani
Watch the moment Holly Willoughby had an awkward on-air encounter with Ruth Langsford, whose husband has been outwardly critical of Ms Willoughby following.
Holly Willoughby has awkward on-air moment with Ruth Langsford
Watch: Holly Willoughby’s speech on This Morning compared to The Morning Show
Tuesday 6 June 2023 07:30 , Peony Hirwani
Everything we know about Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield’s ‘fall-out’
Tuesday 6 June 2023 07:00 , Peony Hirwani
Everything we know about the Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby ‘fall-out’
Who is presenting This Morning after Phillip Schofield’s departure
Tuesday 6 June 2023 06:30 , Peony Hirwani
Holly Willoughby made her return to This Morning on Monday 5 June, appearing for the first time since the departure of her co-host Phillip Schofield.
The presenter said she feels “shaken, troubled and let down” as she returned to the ITV show, but promised to “continue to work hard every single day” to bring viewers “the show that we love”.
Willoughby presented Monday’s episode with Josie Gibson, but a number of others could appear alongside her moving forward.
Here, The Independent takes a look at who could appear on This Morning.
Who is presenting This Morning after Phillip Schofield’s departure
Alison Hammond breaks down while discussing ‘painful’ Phillip Schofield interview
Tuesday 6 June 2023 06:00 , Inga Parkel
Holly Willoughby is not the first This Morning presenter to have displayed emotion publicly in the wake of Phillip Schofield’s departure.
On Friday’s edition (2 June) of the show, Alison Hammond addressed Schofield’s interviews in which he admitted to having lied about an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a “much younger” colleague.
Speaking with co-host Dermot O’Leary, Hammond admitted how “painful” she found the situation. “Obviously, I loved Phillip Schofield and it’s weird because I still love Phillip Schofield.
Isobel Lewis has the full report:
Alison Hammond breaks down while discussing Phillip Schofield on This Morning
‘As a family, we’re all really struggling to process everything,’ presenter said
My boss said he’d sack me if I didn’t flirt – I bet Schofield and Clarkson never had to deal with that
Tuesday 6 June 2023 05:30 , Peony Hirwani
Don’t dismiss the Phillip Schofield scandal as a ‘workplace affair’. It’s more than that, especially when you’re in it like I was, writes Allegra Chapman.
Opinion: My boss said he’d sack me if I didn’t flirt
This Morning viewers unimpressed by Willoughby statement
Tuesday 6 June 2023 05:00 , Inga Parkel
Viewers have reacted to Holly Willoughby’s emotional address as she returned to This Morning after Schofield, her former co-host, resigned.
Suffice to say, they seem to think it’s all a bit much.
This Morning viewers react to Holly’s ‘ridiculous’ Phillip Schofield speech
‘I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite as patronising,’ one viewer said
WATCH: This Morning’s editor has aubergine-centred response when asked about toxic environment on set
Tuesday 6 June 2023 04:30 , Inga Parkel
Everything we know about Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield’s ‘fall-out’
Tuesday 6 June 2023 04:00 , Inga Parkel
Before Phillip Schofield admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a younger This Morning colleague, his departure from the show was thought to have stemmed from a rift with co-host Holly Willoughby.
Jacob Stolworthy has the details of their rumoured fallout:
Everything we know about the Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby ‘fall-out’
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby news
VOICES: Holly tried her damnedest – but This Morning is anything but a functional family
Tuesday 6 June 2023 03:30 , Inga Parkel
According to Samuel Fishwick, Holly Willoughby’s speech on today’s This Morning was not enough to convince him of all being well on set.
For him, it was an example of putting on a great show for the viewers.
“What a masterful performance this was: smart and heartfelt, even if scripted,” he writes. “Revenge dress. Revenge hair. The textbook power plays with which to exorcise a disgraced work husband.”
Read the full op-ed below:
Opinion: Holly tried – but This Morning is anything but a functional family
What a masterful performance this was: smart and heartfelt, even if scripted. Revenge dress. Revenge hair
The 5 biggest takeaways from Phillip Schofield’s BBC interview
Tuesday 6 June 2023 03:00 , Inga Parkel
On Friday 2 June, the BBC broadcasted an interview between Phillip Schofield and the Today programme’s Amol Rajan.
In the 43-minute-long conversation, the former This Morning host shared some insight into his affair with a “much younger” colleague, and his feelings on the subsequent fallout.
As well as denying paying anyone off to conceal the nature of his relationship with the coworker, Schofield also revealed that his mental health had taken a severe decline.
Here are five major takeaways from the interview:
5 biggest revelations from Phillip Schofield’s interview about affair scandal
Former ‘This Morning’ host said his career is ‘done’, and that he thinks the ‘massive’ backlash is due to homophobia
WATCH: Phillip Schofield reveals why he made affair public
Tuesday 6 June 2023 02:30 , Inga Parkel
VOICES: Has Phillip Schofield’s ‘mea culpa’ interview made things better or worse?
Tuesday 6 June 2023 02:00 , Inga Parkel
After Phillip Schofield came clean about his professional wrongdoings in a detailed interview with BBC’s Amol Rajan, for many, the question remained: does this help anything?
The Independent’s Samuel Fishwick isn’t so sure it was a good idea.
Read more:
Opinion: Has Schofield’s ‘mea culpa’ interview made things better or worse?
Distraught and exhausted, his voice little more than a strained, timid croak, the disgraced former This Morning host told the BBC’s Amol Rajan of the ‘catastrophic effect’ of the past week
Phillip Schofield fears leaving home amid fallout from secret affair
Tuesday 6 June 2023 01:30 , Inga Parkel
In his first interview since leaving This Morning, Phillip Schofield spoke openly about the decline in his mental health since the fallout that followed coming clean about his extramarital affair at work.
In the ex-TV presenter’s first interview since he resigned from This Morning and ITV at large, Schofield said he feared getting spat on in public.
“I do not know a time I will be able to walk out of the door,” Schofield told The Sun. “I don’t have any spirit. My friends tell me, ‘It will get better’. It won’t. Not now. Not this one.”
Read more:
Phillip Schofield fears leaving home amid fallout from secret affair
Former ‘This Morning’ host said he doesn’t know if he’ll ever ‘be able to walk out of the door’
Caroline Flack’s mother Christine issues strong advice
Tuesday 6 June 2023 01:00 , Inga Parkel
The mother of the late Love Island host Caroline Flack, who took her own life three years ago, has issued a heartfelt plea to Phillip Schofield: “Wait to see what happens and don’t do anything stupid.”
Read more:
Don’t do anything stupid, Caroline Flack’s mum tells Phillip Schofield
Christine Flack claims ITV has not learnt lessons from her daughter’s suicide
New reactions are in from Jeremy Clarkson and Dan Walker
Tuesday 6 June 2023 00:30 , Inga Parkel
Several stars have jumped to Schofield’s defence, arguing that there is an element of homophobia to the backlash against the former This Morning host.
The celebrities who have weighed in on Phillip Schofield’s This Morning and ITV exit
Schofield has said his ‘career is over’ after he admitted to having an affair with a much younger colleague and repeatedly lying about it
A handful of protestors went to the Soap Awards last night
Tuesday 6 June 2023 00:00 , Inga Parkel
It was the British Soap Awards at The Lowry Theatre in Salford last night, and Schofield was originally due to host the ceremony. Jane McDonald stepped in at the last minute to replace him, but protestors still showed up outside the venue with signs.
Protestors hit the British Soap Awards
Monday 5 June 2023 23:30 , Inga Parkel
Despite Schofield being replaced as host of the ceremony, a handful of protestors attended the Salford event with banners.
Read more:
Anti-Phillip Schofield protestors hit British Soap Awards
Protestors held up banners as they stood among hundreds of soap fans
The inside story of Phillip Schofield’s shocking downfall
Monday 5 June 2023 23:00 , Inga Parkel
“British light entertainment had not seen a rise and fall so dramatic since the downfall of Michael Barrymore, whose career was destroyed when a man was found dead in the swimming pool of Barrymore’s £2m mansion after a party in 2001. The circumstances are very different, but Schofield’s downward trajectory has been no less cataclysmic.”
Read the full feature here:
Technicolour nightmare: the inside story of Phillip Schofield’s shocking downfall
For more than four decades, the former ‘This Morning’ presenter was synonymous with bulletproof affability, writes Ed Power. It’s only made his cataclysmic fall from grace that much more surprising
BBC ‘eyeing up poaching Holly Willoughby’ after ITV’s Phillip Schofield scandal
Monday 5 June 2023 22:30 , Inga Parkel
Holly Willoughby is reportedly being eyed up for presenting opportunities by the BBC following the fallout from the controversy surrounding This Morning and her former co-host Phillip Schofield.
The Mirror is reporting that since Willoughby hosted the celebrity challenge show Freeze the Fear on BBC One last year, bosses at the rival broadcaster have been keen to poach her.
Read more:
BBC ‘eyeing up poaching Holly Willoughby’ after ITV’s Phillip Schofield scandal
Willoughby has been laying low since Schofield admitted to ‘unwise’ but ‘not illegal’ affair with younger colleague
Who joined Holly Willoughby on the This Morning sofa on Monday?
Monday 5 June 2023 22:00 , Inga Parkel
Josie Gibson, who won the 2010 series of Big Brother, sat next to Willoughby on Monday (5 June). She joined the ITV show in 2019 and has co-hosted on a number of occasions as a relief presenter.
Holly Willoughby’s new This Morning co-host announced as return speculation ends
She will be back presenting for the first time since Schofield’s departure
Watch: This Morning’s editor gives bizarre answer to journalist asking about ‘toxic environment’
Monday 5 June 2023 21:30 , Inga Parkel
The editor of This Morning gave a bizarre answer when asked by a journalist if there is a “toxic environment” at the ITV show.
“I’ll tell you what’s toxic and I’ve always found it toxic. Aubergine. Do you like aubergine?” Martin Frizell asked as he left his house on Monday 5 June.
“I don’t like aubergine, it’s just a personal thing,” he added, as the reporter repeated the question.
How have people reacted to Holly Willoughby’s return?
Monday 5 June 2023 21:00 , Inga Parkel
Today’s edition of This Morning has undoubtedly attracted more viewers than usual, keen to see how Holly Willoughby would handle the departure of her long-time co-host Phillip Schofield.
After giving a statement in which she admitted it felt “strange” to present without him, Willoughby stated that it is “hard to see” the toll that Schofield’s actions had taken on his mental health and spoke of the This Morning viewers and team moving forward as a united front.
In response, viewers have shared mixed reviews of the host’s take on the scandal.
“Could Holly Willoughby have sounded any less sincere? She could have at least learnt that speech off by heart instead of reading from an autocue!” wrote one Twitter user. Another accused Willoughby of acting, writing: “And the BAFTA for delivering insincerity goes to Holly Willoughby.”
Yet, others were touched by the presenter’s speech and commented on her “brave” actions. “It was really emotion watching @hollywills’s statement on This Morning, it was like losing a parent where we are so used to a team, we now have one voice,” one viewer tweeted. “Holly was really brave... there was a lot not said. But it had love.”
Find out who’s co-hosting 'This Morning’ with Holly Willoughby following Phillip Schofield’s departure
Monday 5 June 2023 20:30 , Inga Parkel
Holly Willoughby shares Phillip Schofield statement upon return to ‘This Morning’ sofa
Monday 5 June 2023 20:00 , Inga Parkel
ICYMI:
Holly Willoughby returned from her This Morning break since the exit of her former co-host Phillip Schofield.
Upon her return, she issued a lengthy speech addressing the ex-TV presenter’s affair scandal.
Several viewers reacted to her statement, labelling it “ridiculous”.
Read more:
This Morning viewers react to Holly’s ‘ridiculous’ Phillip Schofield speech
‘I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite as patronising,’ one viewer said
Phillip Schofield ‘will not watch Holly Willoughby’s return to This Morning’
Monday 5 June 2023 19:30 , Inga Parkel
Phillip Schofield will not watch This Morning on Monday, fronted by his ex-co-presenter Holly Willoughby, as it would be too devastating for him, his friends have reportedly said.
Willoughby is expected to tell viewers of her sadness at the end of her 13-year screen partnership with Schofield, and that the long-running programme must go on.
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Phillip Schofield ‘will not watch Holly Willoughby’s return to This Morning’
Former co-host expected to tell of her sadness in statement at start of show
Read the text Phillip Schofield sent Holly Willoughby after admitting to This Morning affair
Monday 5 June 2023 19:00 , Inga Parkel
Phillip Schofield has shared the text he sent to former co-star Holly Willoughby after admitting to lying about an affair with a younger This Morning colleague.
The disgraced former host of the ITV daytime series reflected on his friendship with Willoughby after he quit following reports of a feud between the presenting duo.
A week later, Schofield shared a statement in which he said he lied about an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a colleague. He was subsequently dropped by his agent and also resigned from ITV, whose bosses said they were “badly let down” by the presenter.
In a new interview with the BBC’s Amol Rajan, Schofield said he texted Willoughby about the scandal to apologise for lying to her about the affair.
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Read the text Phillip Schofield sent Holly Willoughby after admitting to affair
‘She didn’t reply,’ disgraced TV host said
WATCH: Phillip Schofield claims he ‘understands how Caroline Flack felt’ after This Morning departure
Monday 5 June 2023 18:30 , Inga Parkel
Piers Morgan weighs in
Monday 5 June 2023 18:00 , Inga Parkel
The former ITV presenter wrote on Twitter: “Unless Phillip Schofield’s ex-lover contradicts his version of events to The Sun [and the] BBC, then it’s time to stop this relentless persecution of a guy who’s lost everything and looks right on the edge to me.”
He continued: “He doesn’t seem to have committed any crime, and he’s not a [government] minister.”
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Piers Morgan questions ‘relentless persecution’ of Phillip Schofield
Piers Morgan on Phillip Schofield interview
‘Baffled’ Jeremy Clarkson hits out at Phillip Schofield ‘witch hunt’
Monday 5 June 2023 17:30 , Inga Parkel
Columnist and TV host Jeremy Clarkson has said that he finds the criticism of Phillip Schofield over his secret affair with a younger male colleague “weird” and has “never seen a witch hunt like it”.
Clarkson said he does not know Schofield and has “no skin in the fight”, but wrote about the outrage that has followed Schofield’s saga.
“He maintains that his lover was over the age of consent when their relationship became physical, but that hasn’t silenced the howls of disgust,” Clarkson wrote in his Sunday Times column.
Clarkson said that he has never seen a “witch hunt” like the one that has gone after the former This Morning host.
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‘Baffled’ Jeremy Clarkson hits out at Phillip Schofield ‘witch hunt’
’It seems to me he is only guilty of being what he said he was: gay,’ Jeremy Clarkson says
Phillip Schofield fears leaving home amid fallout from secret affair
Monday 5 June 2023 17:00 , Nicole Vassell
In his first interview since leaving This Morning, Phillip Schofield spoke openly about the decline in his mental health since the fallout that followed coming clean about his extramarital affair at work.
In the ex-TV presenter’s first interview since he resigned from This Morning and ITV at large, Schofield said he feared getting spat on in public.
“I do not know a time I will be able to walk out of the door,” Schofield told The Sun. “I don’t have any spirit. My friends tell me, ‘It will get better’. It won’t. Not now. Not this one.”
Inga Parkel reports:
Phillip Schofield fears leaving home amid fallout from secret affair
Eamonn Holmes accuses ex-colleague Phillip Schofield of ‘toxicity’ and ITV of ‘cover-up’
Monday 5 June 2023 16:40 , Nicole Vassell
Eamonn Holmes is one of several celebrities to speak out against Phillip Schofield and This Morning since Schofield left the show with “immediate effect” on Saturday 20 May.
On an episode of his GB News show last week, Holmes responded to Schofield’s denial of “toxicity” claims from former employees such as Dr Ranj Singh.
“I think that Phillip is absolutely right about toxicity,” Holmes said. “But my friend, the toxicity is not with me, [journalist] Dan Wootton, or anyone else, the toxicity is with you.”
Luke O’Reilly reports:
Eamonn Holmes accuses Phillip Schofield of ‘toxicity’ and ITV of ‘cover-up’
VOICES: Has Phillip Schofield’s ‘mea culpa’ interview made things better or worse?
Monday 5 June 2023 16:20 , Nicole Vassell
After Phillip Schofield came clean about his professional wrongdoings in a detailed interview with BBC’s Amol Rajan, for many, the question remained: does this help anything?
The Independent’s Samuel Fishwick isn’t so sure it was a good idea.
“So here we are: a desperate, destroyed man appealing to the millions of viewers who have raised him to the summit of British daytime television to push their noses through the looking glass of the TV cameras and see a person,” he writes.
“He wanted us to feel the weight of what he is feeling. He does not want to be treated as breaking news. Schofield has always had a knack for making us feel the humanity of a news story. But now that he has become the story, he has never looked so cowed.”
Read the full opinion piece below:
Opinion: Has Schofield’s ‘mea culpa’ interview made things better or worse?
WATCH: Kerry Katona calls This Morning ‘phony'
Monday 5 June 2023 16:00 , Nicole Vassell
British Soap Awards hit with protests against Phillip Schofield despite replacing host
Monday 5 June 2023 15:40 , Nicole Vassell
Although Phillip Schofield was replaced as the host of the British Soap Awards by Jane McDonald, it didn’t stop a small number of unimpressed protestors from turning up with banners on Saturday evening (3 June).
Despite Schofield not being present at the ceremony, a handful of protesters with banners gathered outside the event at The Lowry in Salford.
The signs featured photographs of Schofield and his former This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby.
Ellie Harrison reports:
Anti-Phillip Schofield protestors hit British Soap Awards
WATCH: Phillip Schofield claims he ‘understands how Caroline Flack felt’ after This Morning departure
Monday 5 June 2023 15:20 , Nicole Vassell
BBC ‘eyeing up poaching Holly Willoughby’ after ITV’s Phillip Schofield scandal
Monday 5 June 2023 15:00 , Nicole Vassell
A report has claimed that Holly Willoughby is being considered for a move to the BBC in the wake of Phillip Schofield’s scandalous departure from This Morning.
The Mirror has reported that since Willoughby hosted the celebrity challenge show Freeze the Fear on BBC One last year, bosses at the rival broadcaster have been keen to poach her.
“Ever since then they have been keen to sign her up for another project and have bent over backwards to offer her other opportunities,” a source told the publication, stating that the ongoing turmoil at ITV has “played into their hands”.
Ellie Harrison has more:
BBC ‘eyeing up poaching Holly Willoughby’ after ITV’s Phillip Schofield scandal
VOICES: Holly tried her damnedest – but This Morning is anything but a functional family
Monday 5 June 2023 14:41 , Nicole Vassell
According to Samuel Fishwick, Holly Willoughby’s speech on today’s This Morning was not enough to convince him of all being well on set.
For him, it was an example of putting on a great show for the viewers.
“What a masterful performance this was: smart and heartfelt, even if scripted,” he writes. “Revenge dress. Revenge hair. The textbook power plays with which to exorcise a disgraced work husband.”
Read the full op-ed below:
Opinion: Holly tried – but This Morning is anything but a functional family
The 5 biggest takeaways from Phillip Schofield’s BBC interview
Monday 5 June 2023 14:20 , Nicole Vassell
On Friday 2 June, the BBC broadcasted an interview between Phillip Schofield and the Today programme’s Amol Rajan.
In the 43-minute-long conversation, the former This Morning host shared some insight into his affair with a “much younger” colleague, and his feelings on the subsequent fallout.
As well as denying paying anyone off to conceal the nature of his relationship with the coworker, Schofield also revealed that his mental health had taken a severe decline.
Here are five major takeaways from the interview:
5 biggest revelations from Phillip Schofield’s interview about affair scandal
This Morning viewers react to Holly Willoughby’s ‘ridiculous’ statement
Monday 5 June 2023 14:00 , Nicole Vassell
The response to Holly Willoughby’s statement on today’s edition of This Morning has been met with mixed responses from viewers.
Some viewers have since branded Willoughby’s statement as “ridiculous”, accusing the show of “self-importance” in the wake of the scandal.
Jacob Stolworthy reports:
This Morning viewers react to Holly’s ‘ridiculous’ Phillip Schofield speech
Everything we know about Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield’s ‘fall-out’
Monday 5 June 2023 13:40 , Nicole Vassell
Before Phillip Schofield admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a younger This Morning colleague, his departure from the show was thought to have stemmed from a rift with co-host Holly Willoughby.
Jacob Stolworthy has the details of their rumoured fallout:
Everything we know about the Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby ‘fall-out’
Watch: This Morning’s editor has aubergine-centred response when asked about toxic environment on set
Monday 5 June 2023 13:20 , Nicole Vassell
Technicolour nightmare: the inside story of Phillip Schofield’s shocking downfall
Monday 5 June 2023 13:00 , Nicole Vassell
For decades, Phillip Schofield was considered a national treasure to many.
However, the past few weeks have seen a crucial downfall that has seen him quit his hosting role on This Morning, as well as his presenting commitments at ITV at large.
Here’s Ed Power’s deep-dive into Schofield’s long career, what went wrong and how:
Technicolour nightmare: the inside story of Phillip Schofield’s shocking downfall
This Morning viewers unimpressed by Willoughby statement
Monday 5 June 2023 12:45 , Roisin O'Connor
Viewers have reacted to Holly Willoughby’s emotional address as she returned to This Morning after Schofield, her former co-host, resigned.
Suffice to say, they seem to think it’s all a bit much.
This Morning viewers react to Holly’s ‘ridiculous’ Phillip Schofield speech
Jeremy Clarkson calls public treatment of Phillip Schofield a ‘witch hunt'
Monday 5 June 2023 12:40 , Nicole Vassell
Jeremy Clarkson is one of the most prominent public figures who has spoken out against the backlash directed at Phillip Schofield after his revelation of an affair with a younger colleague.
In his Sunday Times column, the broadcaster drew comparisons between people’s reaction to age gaps in famous heterosexual partnerships to Schofield’s same-sex affair.
“He maintains that his lover was over the age of consent when their relationship became physical, but that hasn’t silenced the howls of disgust,” Clarkson wrote.
“And I find that weird. We casually roll our eyes when we hear that Leonardo DiCaprio’s new girlfriend is three and we even nod appreciatively when we learn that the age gap between Al Pacino and his pregnant girlfriend is 54 years.”
Cormac Pearson reports:
‘Baffled’ Jeremy Clarkson hits out at Phillip Schofield ‘witch hunt’
Alison Hammond breaks down while discussing ‘painful’ Phillip Schofield interview
Monday 5 June 2023 12:20 , Nicole Vassell
Holly Willoughby is not the first This Morning presenter to have displayed emotion publicly in the wake of Phillip Schofield’s departure.
On Friday’s edition (2 June) of the show, Alison Hammond addressed Schofield’s interviews in which he admitted to having lied about an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a “much younger” colleague.
Speaking with co-host Dermot O’Leary, Hammond admitted how “painful” she found the situation. “Obviously, I loved Phillip Schofield and it’s weird because I still love Phillip Schofield.
“However, what he’s done is wrong,” she said. “He’s admitted it, he’s said sorry. As a family, we’re all really struggling to process everything.”
Isobel Lewis has the full report:
Alison Hammond breaks down while discussing Phillip Schofield on This Morning
Read the text Phillip Schofield sent Holly Willoughby after admitting to This Morning affair
Monday 5 June 2023 12:00 , Nicole Vassell
In interviews with the BBC and The Sun last week, Phillip Schofield maintained that Holly Willoughby was unaware of his extra-marital relationship with a younger This Morning colleague.
Schofield also revealed the text message he’d sent to Willoughby after he admitted to the affair, in which he told her not to reply and apologised for not telling her the truth.
Jacob Stolworthy reports:
Read the text Phillip Schofield sent Holly Willoughby after admitting to affair
Watch Holly Willoughby address Phillip Schofield controversy for the first time on This Morning
Monday 5 June 2023 11:39 , Roisin O'Connor
Phillip Schofield ‘could not watch’ Holly Willoughby’s return to This Morning
Monday 5 June 2023 11:23 , Nicole Vassell
Phillip Schofield is not thought to have watched Holly Willoughby’s return to This Morning today.
According to reports, the disgraced presenter is not ready to watch the show he formerly hosted, as even the opening theme “would be hugely triggering”.
“His family is being incredibly careful not to have the TV on when he’s in the room to ensure he doesn’t see anything,” a source told The Sun.
“Of course, he is aware Willoughby is back on air today and he absolutely wanted her to shine, and smash it.
“But he physically could not watch – he is not there yet.”
Full story below:
Phillip Schofield ‘will not watch Holly Willoughby’s return to This Morning’
Holly Willoughby’s return statement on Monday’s This Morning
Monday 5 June 2023 11:00 , Nicole Vassell
In case you missed it, here is a rundown of Holly Willoughby’s speech upon returning to This Morning, addressing the Phillip Schofield scandal.
Holly Willoughby’s remarkable This Morning statement addressing Schofield scandal
How have people reacted to Holly Willoughby’s return?
Monday 5 June 2023 10:41 , Nicole Vassell
Today’s edition of This Morning has undoubtedly attracted more viewers than usual, keen to see how Holly Willoughby would handle the departure of her long-time co-host Phillip Schofield.
After giving a statement in which she admitted it felt “strange” to present without him, Willoughby stated that it is “hard to see” the toll that Schofield’s actions had taken on his mental health and spoke of the This Morning viewers and team moving forward as a united front.
In response, viewers have shared mixed reviews of the host’s take on the scandal.
“Could Holly Willoughby have sounded any less sincere? She could have at least learnt that speech off by heart instead of reading from an autocue!” wrote one Twitter user. Another accused Willoughby of acting, writing: “And the BAFTA for delivering insincerity goes to Holly Willoughby.”
Yet, others were touched by the presenter’s speech and commented on her “brave” actions. “It was really emotion watching @hollywills’s statement on This Morning, it was like losing a parent where we are so used to a team, we now have one voice,” one viewer tweeted. “Holly was really brave... there was a lot not said. But it had love.”
Watch: Phillip Schofield reveals he didn't tell Holly Willoughby about affair
Monday 5 June 2023 10:10 , Peony Hirwani
An emotional Holly Willoughby returns to This Morning
Monday 5 June 2023 10:06 , Roisin O'Connor
Holly Willoughby has made an emotional return to This Morning for the first time since her former co-host, Phillip Schofield, admitted to lying about an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague.
The ITV star began by addressing the scandal, admitting she felt “shaken, troubled, let down, and worried” for “the wellbeing of people on all sides of what’s going on”.
“I imagine that you might be feeling a lot like I have: shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what’s been going on, and full of questions,” she began, appearing alongside co-host Josie Gibson.
“You, me and all of us at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth. Who acted in a way that they themselves felt that they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved. That is a lot to process.
“And it’s equally hard to see the toll that it’s taken on their own mental health. I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal for the health and wellbeing of everyone. I hope that as we start this new chapter and get back to a place of warmth and magic that this show holds for all of us, we can find strength in each other.”
Willoughby rounded off her statement by thanking viewers for their kindness and support.
Watch: This Morning's editor gives bizarre answer to journalist asking about 'toxic environment'
Monday 5 June 2023 09:50 , Peony Hirwani
The editor of This Morning gave a bizarre answer when asked by a journalist if there is a “toxic environment” at the ITV show.
“I’ll tell you what’s toxic and I’ve always found it toxic. Aubergine. Do you like aubergine?” Martin Frizell asked as he left his house on Monday 5 June.
“I don’t like aubergine, it’s just a personal thing,” he added, as the reporter repeated the question.
This Morning’s editor offers odd response when asked about show’s ‘toxic environment’
Monday 5 June 2023 09:30 , Roisin O'Connor
Holly Willoughby is set to return to This Morning hosting duties today alongside Josie Gibson.
Holly Willoughby’s new This Morning co-host announced as return speculation ends
Piers Morgan says ‘it’s time to stop relentless persecution’ of Phillip Schofield
Monday 5 June 2023 09:10 , Peony Hirwani
Piers Morgan has questioned the “relentless persecution” of Phillip Schofield after he admitted to having an affair with a younger colleague on This Morning.
On Friday (2 June), the former This Morning host, 61, sat down with the BBC to discuss the scandal surroudning his relationship with an ITV employee working on the daytime series.
Schofield’s admission, which was revealed in a statement last month, saw him dropped by his agents of more than 30 years, YMU. He has since resigned from ITV. Speaking to the BBC, he said he has had suicidal thoughts since sharing the news.
Morgan wrote on Twitter: “Unless Phillip Schofield’s ex-lover contradicts his version of events to The Sun [and the] BBC, then it’s time to stop this relentless persecution of a guy who’s lost everything and looks right on the edge to me.”
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Piers Morgan questions ‘relentless persecution’ of Phillip Schofield
BBC ‘eyeing up poaching Holly Willoughby’ after ITV’s Phillip Schofield scandal
Monday 5 June 2023 08:50 , Peony Hirwani
Holly Willoughby is reportedly being eyed up for presenting opportunities by the BBC following the fallout from the controversy surrounding This Morning and her former co-host Phillip Schofield.
The Mirror is reporting that since Willoughby hosted the celebrity challenge show Freeze the Fear on BBC One last year, bosses at the rival broadcaster have been keen to poach her.
“Ever since then they have been keen to sign her up for another project and have bent over backwards to offer her other opportunities,” a source told the publication, stating that the ongoing turmoil at ITV has “played into their hands”.
“The bosses have had conversations this week about what they could offer her going forward. And one executive reached out to her directly earlier in the week,” they added.
The source said that Willoughby “really values her relationship with the BBC and the friendships she has built up there”.
Read more:
BBC ‘eyeing up poaching Holly Willoughby’ after ITV’s Phillip Schofield scandal
Phillip Schofield ‘will not watch Holly Willoughby’s return to This Morning’
Monday 5 June 2023 08:30 , Peony Hirwani
Phillip Schofield will not watch This Morning on Monday, fronted by his ex-co-presenter Holly Willoughby, as it would be too devastating for him, his friends have reportedly said.
Willoughby is expected to tell viewers of her sadness at the end of her 13-year screen partnership with Schofield, and that the long-running programme must go on.
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Phillip Schofield ‘will not watch Holly Willoughby’s return to This Morning’
Holly Willoughby’s new This Morning co-host announced as return speculation ends
Monday 5 June 2023 08:10 , Peony Hirwani
Speculation as to whether Holly Willoughby will return to hostThis Morning is over: she will be on Monday’s (5 June) show with a new co-host.
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Holly Willoughby’s new This Morning co-host announced as return speculation ends
Read the text Phillip Schofield sent Holly Willoughby after admitting to This Morning affair
Monday 5 June 2023 07:50 , Peony Hirwani
Phillip Schofield has shared the text he sent to former co-star Holly Willoughby after admitting to lying about an affair with a younger This Morning colleague.
The disgraced former host of the ITV daytime series reflected on his friendship with Willoughby after he quit following reports of a feud between the presenting duo.
A week later, Schofield shared a statement in which he said he lied about an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a colleague. He was subsequently dropped by his agent and also resigned from ITV, whose bosses said they were “badly let down” by the presenter.
In a new interview with the BBC’s Amol Rajan, Schofield said he text Willoughby about the scandal to apologise for lying to her about the affair.
“The last time we had a conversation was when I texted Holly and said, ‘Don’t reply’ – this was after the statement last week – ‘Don’t reply, you’re probably not allowed to, but I am deeply deeply sorry that I lied to you,’” he said.
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Read the text Phillip Schofield sent Holly Willoughby after admitting to affair
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