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ITV bosses are livid at Phillip Schofield’s declare that he would have been handled in another way if he had had an affair with a girl fairly than a person.
The disgraced presenter who give up the channel after mendacity about his relationship with a a lot youthful This Morning colleague mentioned on his new actuality collection that he would have gotten a ‘pat on the again’ it wasn’t a gay relationship.
Nonetheless, ITV insiders say is ‘completely unfaithful’ to counsel he would have been handled in another way as a result of it was a homosexual romance.
In his much-criticised tv comeback on Channel 5 programme Solid Away, Schofield refers to himself because the ‘shamed, disgraced Philip Schofield, who had an affair’.
The 62-year-old mentioned: ‘Unusually, I believe one other TV presenter or two may need completed precisely the identical factor. Distinction is heterosexual. It is not an uncommon factor within the homosexual world for there to be a distinction in age teams.’
ITV bosses are livid at Phillip Schofield ‘s declare that he would have been handled in another way if he had had an affair with a girl fairly than a person.
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‘That is not that uncommon within the straight world, but when that had been the case with me and it had been a girl. Pat on the again. Properly completed, mate.’
Schofield mentioned that he ‘has regrets’ and acknowledges he ‘acquired one thing flawed’ and ‘damage the individuals’ round him.
‘I do not know what value you are imagined to pay and whether or not the value you are paying is essentially proportionate,’ he provides.
Hitting again, a supply on the channel mentioned: ‘It is a silly factor for Phil to say, and it’s simply not true. Phil lied to his colleagues, his bosses and his buddies about it, it would not have mattered if it was a girl or a person.’
They add that Schofield is unlikely to work with the channel once more regardless of his hints that he had been approached to seem on their actuality present, I am A Celeb. One supply mentioned: ‘He lied to us, it will be actually, actually troublesome.’
ITV’s fury comes as Schofield additionally hints that he was fired from the community when in actual fact the primary its chiefs discovered of his departure was in assertion to the Mail the place he admitted the affair and mentioned he left with speedy impact.
Sources on the broadcaster additionally say that he selected to step again from presenting This Morning a fortnight earlier than following a fall out along with his former co-star Holly Willoughby.
Within the programme, which airs from Monday, Schofield takes goal at a trio of his former ITV colleagues, saying: ‘I believe there are solely three shits.’
The disgraced presenter who give up the channel after mendacity about his relationship with a a lot youthful This Morning colleague mentioned on his new actuality collection that he would have gotten a ‘pat on the again’ it wasn’t a gay relationship
Nonetheless, ITV insiders say is ‘completely unfaithful’ to counsel he would have been handled in another way as a result of it was a homosexual romance
‘That is not that uncommon within the straight world, but when that had been the case with me and it had been a girl. Pat on the again. Properly completed, mate’
He identified that one was a ‘coward who by no means stepped up in queue gate,’ whereas one other ‘is a coward as a result of they by no means stepped up once I was being battered by that one journalist who thought I might acquired them fired.’
The third, Schofield says ‘is simply model oriented. Not what you count on, not what you assume you are going to get.’
He additionally insisted that he has now give up tv and does not wish to make a return regardless of filming the three-part present for Channel 5 which sees him having to outlive alone in Madagascar.
