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Phillip Schofield bared all in interviews with The Sun and BBC amid the fallout of confessing to an affair with a This Morning runner. Here is what he said:

‘I did not groom him’

Schofield insists he is not a groomer, saying that while he met the former colleague while he was a teenager, their interactions were innocent and only became sexual when the runner was around 20/21 years old.

He said it never felt like an ‘abuse of power’ because they were ‘mates’.

The affair began in 2017

He has said that the affair began after a ‘consensual moment’ in his dressing room.

‘It was not a love affair, it was not a relationship, we were not boyfriends; we were mates,’ he insisted. ‘It wasn’t feelings (I was getting), it was more like mates: excitement.’

His wife is ‘very, very…

Dermot O’Leary has shared a gushing tribute and said co-hosting an entire week of This Morning was a ‘privilege’  amid the ongoing Phillip Schofield scandal. 

The host, 50, who has been fronting the show alongside Alison Hammond, 48, took to Instagram with a slew of snaps from his busy stint in front of the camera.

Phillip, 61, quit ITV with immediate effect after admitted to cheating on wife Stephanie with the man, while he admitted deceiving his ITV employees and colleagues about his affair.

Dermot playfully posed alongside Alison in the snaps as well as with a number of the show’s celebrity guests. 

The duo beamed, shaking off any signs of drama, with actors Ian McKellan, Roger Allam and the Spitting Image puppets.

Privilege: Dermot O’Leary, 50, has shared a gushing tribute…

This Morning’s Holly Willoughby has reportedly ended her years long close friendship with co-host Phillip Schofield, leaving the future of the UK morning news show uncertain.

After 14 years of hosting together, Willoughby is said to have been left “blind sided” by Schofield addressing a “friction” between the pair, according to British tabloid The Mirror.

After weeks of rumours alleging a feud between the two friends, Schofield released a statement on the matter, calling Willoughby his “rock”.

“We’re the best of friends – as always, she is an incredible support on screen, behind the scenes and on the phone,” Schofield’s statement read.

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British television host Philip Schofield has shared a message to his fans as he returns to his regular on-air role after taking time off around his brother’s sexual abuse conviction.

Schofield has been off-air from British breakfast show This Morning since the end of March, when his younger brother, Timothy Schofield, 54 faced charges of sexually abusing a teenaged boy.

On April 4, Timothy Schofield was convicted of 11 sexual offences involving a child between October 2016 and October 2019, and Philip Schofield has remained off-air since.

But on Monday morning (local time), the host returned and began the show talking about his brother’s case.

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