Phillip Schofield has resigned from ITV after admitting he lied a couple of relationship he had with “a youthful male colleague” on the channel’s This Morning breakfast present.
The veteran TV presenter, 61, introduced he was stepping down from presenting the ITV speak present with “fast impact” final weekend, whereas it was introduced his co-presenter Holly Willoughby will stay on the present, however is taking early half-term vacation go away.
Phillip Schofield with This Morning co-presenter Holly Willoughby
In an announcement launched by way of the Every day Mail, Mr Schofield apologised for mendacity concerning the relationship.
He added that the connection was “unwise, however not unlawful”.
“The very first thing I need to say is: I’m deeply sorry for having lied to them (the Every day Mail), and to many others a couple of relationship that I had with somebody engaged on This Morning,” he stated.
“I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a youthful male colleague at This Morning.
“Opposite 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, however not unlawful. It’s now over.”
The presenter added: “I’m painfully acutely aware that I’ve lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and associates, to my brokers, to the media and subsequently the general public, and most significantly of all to my household.
“I’m so very, very sorry, as I’m for having been untrue to my spouse.”
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