TV has mentioned it investigated “rumours” of an affair between Phillip Schofield and a youthful worker nevertheless it was repeatedly denied by the pair.
Schofield, 61, quit ITV on Friday after admitting to an affair with a younger male employee on the company while nonetheless married to his wife of 30 years.
The former This Morning presenter mentioned it had been an “unwise, but not illegal” affair and that he had lied to ITV concerning the relationship with the ex-colleague.
ITV mentioned it was “not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour” when it regarded into the matter in 2020.
Adding: “ITV can affirm that when rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an worker of ITV first started to flow into in early 2020 ITV investigated
“Both parties were questioned and both categorically and repeatedly denied the rumours as did Phillip’s then agency YMU.
“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.
“Phillip’s statement yesterday reveals that he lied to people at ITV, from senior management to fellow presenters, to YMU, to the media and to others over this relationship.”
Schofield’s assertion continued: “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,” he informed the paper.
“I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.
“I have therefore decided to step down from the British Soap Awards, my last public commitment, and am resigning from ITV with immediate effect expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the amazing opportunities that they have given me.
“I will reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it.”
Schofield, who had co-presented This Morning with Willoughby since 2009, mentioned final week he determined to depart the present as a result of it had “become the story”.
He began at This Morning in 2002 as a short lived presenter earlier than changing into a everlasting fixture on the present.
Fern Britton, his authentic co-host, stop the programme in 2009, with Britton changed with Willoughby.
Schofield’s spouse, Stephanie - who shares two kids with Phillip - beforehand stood by him when he revealed in 2020 he was homosexual on ITV after 27 years of marriage.
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