ITV bosses face showdown with MPs on Phillip Schofield scandal 'cover-up' claims

ITV bosses are to be grilled by MPs subsequent week over the dramatic occasions surrounding the resignation of This Morning host Phillip Schofield.

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A supply on the Commons Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee has stated that the channel's bosses had been diaried in to seem earlier than the committee on Tuesday subsequent week to speak in regards to the Draft Media Bill.

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But it's understood that the committee has additionally knowledgeable them that they are going to be anticipated to reply problems with public concern concerning the Schofield revelations.

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Schofield give up This Morning after an obvious falling out along with his former co-host Holly Willoughby however it was shortly adopted by revelations that he had a sexual affair with a youthful member of employees on the present.

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The former This Morning host has been branded a liar by fellow presenters together with Eamonn Holmes who dubbed him the "chief narcissist".

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Holmes was introduced on to the present when Schofield revealed that he's homosexual and now believes he and others had been lied to after Schofield admitted to the affair with the younger worker and it has led to allegations of a cover-up at ITV.

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A supply on the CMS committee has advised Express.co.uk that MPs need solutions to what has occurred at ITV and whether or not there was a cover-up to guard Schofield.

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One of the executives anticipated to be underneath the highlight is ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall, who beforehand labored on the Guardian.

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Over the weekend GB News presenter Dan Wootton alleged she beforehand advised him claims towards Schofield had been "malicious".

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McCall pressured out stars like Jeremy Clarkson, Eamonn Holmes and Piers Morgan with critics claiming she needed to show ITV "woke" however is accused of defending Schofield.

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The CMS committee has a newly elected chairwoman Dame Caroline Dinenage who promised in her pitch to MPs that she would make it "more nimble" in responding to occasions.

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A committee supply confirmed that ITV bosses have been warned they are going to be anticipated to reply questions on the Schofield fallout in addition to the Draft Media Bill.

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Among the problems that MPs need to ask are about any potential cover-up to guard, procedures on defending younger and susceptible employees, and whether or not executives consider they had been lied to.

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The supply added: "We are keen to look at the potential use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in this space too."

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The row has seen ITV lose advertisers and raised questions over whether or not This Morning might be axed.

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