Phillip Schofield admits ‘career is over’ and he has ‘lost everything’
The TV host opened up on his affair with a youthful co-worker at ITV’s This Morning, branding it a “grave error”. In his first interview since his bombshell assertion was launched final month, Mr Schofield appeared emotional as he stated he doubted he would ever make a return to a profession in TV following the explosive scandal. Speaking with the BBC‘s Amol Rajan, he stated: “I have to talk about television in the past tense, which breaks my heart. I have lost everything.”
His profession, he candidly admitted, is “over”. He additionally stated throughout the interview: “What am I going to do with my days?”
“I see nothing ahead of me but blackness, and sadness, and regret, and remorse, and guilt.
“I did one thing very flawed, after which I lied about it persistently.”
The TV host added he was “desperately sorry” and didn’t hide the fact he has been hugely struggling since the scandal exploded.
He said: “Last week, if my daughters hadn’t been there, I would not be right here.
“They’ve been by my side every moment because they’re scared to let me out of their sight.”
During the interview, Mr Schofield offered extra particulars concerning the affair, saying he and the unnamed colleague weren’t “boyfriends” they usually solely had 5 or 6 romantic encounters over the course of some months.
Mr Schofield confirmed he first met the person he would go on to have an affair with when he was invited to look as a part of an occasion at a drama faculty a number of years in the past.
They later related on Twitter, the place the host was requested by the youthful man for recommendation on working within the TV trade.
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These communications had been “completely innocent”, Mr Schofield confused.
Their affair began “a few months” after the person had begun engaged on This Morning they usually had “become mates”.
The colleague, Mr Schofield stated, was 20 on the time and their first romantic encounter happened within the TV veteran’s ITV dressing room.
Mr Schofield confirmed his This Morning co-star Holly Willoughby “did not know” concerning the affair, including: “Nobody knew. Rumours started, and then you lie. When you’ve had a workplace fling, you lie about it.”
He went public along with his story when he realised the lie had received “too big for both of us”, shifting from on-line to mainstream news.
Last week, ITV confirmed hypothesis surrounding a relationship between Mr Schofield and a youthful co-worker had begun circulating in 2020 and the broadcaster had seemed into them.
However, each events concerned “categorically and repeatedly denied the rumours”, ITV stated in a press release.
The broadcaster added: “In addition, ITV spoke to a number of people who worked on This Morning and were not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour.”
Mr Schofield quit ITV after admitting he had been in a “consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning”. The relationship, he stated, was “unwise, but not illegal” and is now over.
Admitting he had beforehand lied about his affair, he stated prior to now he hadn’t been “truthful” to guard the now ex-colleague, earlier than including: “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.”