PHILLIP Schofield has dramatically admitted his affair with a male runner who worked on This Morning, the story that was first broken by Politicalite.com in 2020 – and is only just being reported by the mainstream media.
Schofield, 61 said: “The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others about a relationship.”
“I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague.”
“That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over.”
And he said: “‘I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.”
“I have therefore decided to step down from the British Soap Awards, my last public commitment, and am resigning from ITV with immediate effect expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the amazing opportunities that they have given me.”
“I will reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it.”
In a statement through his agency as he was dropped, Schofield added: “It is with the most profound regret that after 35 years of being faultlessly managed by YMU I have agreed to step down from their representation with immediate effect.”
