Fallout from Phillip Schofield ‘cover up’ threatens to engulf ITV top brass

Eamonn Holmes has criticized ITV when it accuses the company of covering up the Phillip Schofield affair.

The 63-year-old broadcaster, who previously appeared on This Morning alongside Schofield, sensationally claimed that bosses knew “what kind of man” the star was and took no action.

Holmes, who hosted the show with his wife Ruth Langsford, went on to make a series of allegations suggesting that the stationmasters knew of the allegations against Schofield and “never took action”.

He said: ‘Schofield has finally been caught, but he’s not the only one to blame’

This has been echoed by GB News presenter Dan Wooton, who said the broadcaster now faces ‘huge questions’.

The 63-year-old broadcaster, who previously appeared on This Morning alongside Schofield, sensationally claimed that bosses knew “what kind of man” the star was and took no action.

He went on to state that there had been “widespread outrage that management allowed this to go on for so long.”

He said one of the station’s biggest stars contacted him to allege a “cover up” had taken place.

Phillip Schofield admitted today to having a relationship with a much younger man who worked with him on This Morning, and later lied about it.

In an explosive statement to the Daily Mail, the veteran TV presenter admitted that he and the man began a relationship that was more than friendship. The former TV presenter describes this as “reckless but not illegal”.

Schofield further confessed that he lied to his employer ITV, to his colleagues, to his friends and to his agents at the management company YMU.

He also lied to The Mail on Sunday, the sister newspaper of the Daily Mail, which first exclusively described his relationship with the young man earlier this month.

In his humiliating apology, Schofield said: “I am making this statement via the Daily Mail, whom I have already personally apologized for misleading, via my lawyer, who I also misled, on a story.” [sic] who wanted to write about me a few days ago.

“The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry that I lied to them and many others about a relationship I had with someone who worked at This Morning. I had a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague on This Morning.

Phillip Schofield, 61, shares an emotional walk with his mother Pat in the West Country after his brother Timothy was jailed for 12 years (pictured May 19 after leaving This Morning)

In an explosive statement to the Daily Mail, the veteran TV presenter admitted that he and the man began a relationship that was more than friendship (pictured with This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby)

Contrary to speculation, although I met the man as a teenager and was asked to help him break into television, it was only after he started working on the show that it became more than just a friendship. That relationship was reckless, but not illegal. Now it’s over…

I am painfully aware that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore to the public and most importantly to my family. I am very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife…

‘I am resigning from ITV with immediate effect, expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the incredible opportunities they have given me.

“I will reflect on my very poor judgment in participating in the relationship and then lying about it.”

The Mail is aware of the young man’s identity but has chosen not to name him.

Schofield’s extraordinary statement caps weeks of increasingly feverish speculation in both the television industry and the rest of the country about the future of his career, following his sudden exit from the This Morning couch earlier this month.

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