Holly Willoughby didn’t find out about affair – Phillip Schofield
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hillip Schofield has stated he “didn’t tell anybody” about his affair together with his former This Morning colleague and his ex co-host Holly Willoughby “did not know”.
The duo, who introduced the present collectively since 2009 and likewise co-hosted ITV’s Dancing On Ice earlier than Schofield resigned from ITV, had been open about their shut friendship through the years together with happening vacation collectively.
Schofield has been talking concerning the affair he had with a youthful male colleague for the primary time since he left the broadcaster final week.
Asked by the BBC’s Amol Rajan whether or not he informed Willoughby, he stated: “No, oh god, no, that’s a bigger question because our make-up room was like a sanctuary so you tell everything in that room.
“Holly knows everything about me, I know everything about Holly…. Holly did not know. Nobody knew. I didn’t tell anybody.”
Asked about who on his workforce knew concerning the relationship, the presenter stated: “Nobody to my knowledge. I mean somebody has to know something for there to be a rumour later on. I didn’t believe that anybody knew.”
The 61-year-old presenter apologised to Willoughby for mendacity to her about his relationship when he spoke to The Sun.
He stated: “I’ve lost my best friend. I let her (Holly) down. I let that entire show down. I let the viewers down.
“Holly did not know (about the affair) and she was one of the first texts that I sent, to say: ‘I am so, so sorry that I lied to you’.
“She didn’t reply and I understand why she didn’t reply, as well. So yeah. If anyone is in any way linking Holly to this; that is absolutely, wholly untrue.”
He later added to the BBC, when requested, “Who knew on the team?” that “To my knowledge, I mean, somebody has to know something for there to be a rumour later on. I didn’t believe that anybody knew.”
Schofield stated his friendship together with his former co-presenter didn’t break down following their go to to the late Queen’s lying-in-state, however after his brother, Timothy, was jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing a boy.
He informed The Sun: “So we are forever now (associated)… it doesn’t matter now because I’m not going to go out any more but, forever now, you go to the butcher’s and someone says, ‘Oh do you want to (skip ahead)?’ ‘No, no, I’ll stand here.’ I’m serious.
“I don’t ever throw anyone under the bus, but I have a very good instinct for these things and I knew it was a bad thing to do.”
He added: “We were texting each other backwards and forwards afterwards. I said to Holly, ‘I knew I should have gone with my gut,’ and she said, ‘I know’.
“But we were shell-shocked, the both of us, completely shell-shocked by the reaction.
“What are the two things you don’t screw up? The Queen and a queue.”
ITV’s chief government Dame Carolyn McCall had stated final 12 months that the pair had been “misrepresented” over the difficulty and burdened that they had been attending as members of the media to movie a section for This Morning.