Stephen Mulhern has been lined as much as substitute Phillip Schofield as co-presenter of Dancing On Ice, Sky News understands.

The TV star, recognized for internet hosting reveals together with Catchphrase and Britain's Got More Talent, would be part of Holly Willoughby as co-presenter of the favored present.

ITV has not but confirmed the news, saying an announcement might be made "in due course".

The TV host, 46, beforehand stepped in for Schofield on Dancing On Ice in 2022, after he examined constructive for COVID, and can be recognized for showing in Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

Early of their TV careers, Mulhern and Willoughby hosted Saturday morning youngsters's present Ministry Of Mayhem collectively, together with co-presenter Michael Underwood.

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Sky News has contacted representatives for the presenter for remark.

In May, Schofield, 61, resigned from ITV and admitted to an "unwise but not illegal" affair with a youthful colleague on This Morning, which began when the person was 20. The presenter was subsequently dropped by his expertise company, YMU.

An impartial evaluation into ITV's dealing with of the state of affairs, commissioned by the broadcaster to be undertaken by a barrister, is presently beneath means and is anticipated to be accomplished by the top of September.

During a tradition, media and sport committee session in parliament in June, ITV bosses denied turning "a blind eye" to Schofield's "deeply inappropriate" affair, saying they'd have taken motion had they been offered with proof and never "rumours".