Craig Revel Horwood has said people need to leave Phillip Schofield alone, pointing out: “It’s not like he’s murdered anyone.”
Phillip, 61, has been in the news for weeks after leaving ITV’s This Morning and admitting to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a much younger male colleague.
But Strictly star Craig apparently said he’s not sure why it has become so big and that Schofield is “entitled to a private life”.
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“Yes, he lied to his colleagues, which is wrong, but he wanted to protect himself and his former lover,” the Mail quoted him as saying.
“It pales in comparison to a war, where innocent people are dying. It’s not like he’s murdered anyone.”
The TV star also suggested that there are plenty of CEOs who have had flings with staff outside of their marriages, and said it doesn’t make sense to him how huge the scandal has become.
“Leave him alone now, I say,” he added.
Phillip has given a couple of interviews amid the scandal, and told the BBC that he had “lost everything”.
He also referred to former Love Island host Caroline Flack, who took her own life three years ago, saying he could understand how she must have felt.
Craig isn’t the only celeb to speak out in the wake of the scandal, with Piers Morgan tweeting that it was “time to stop this relentless persecution of a guy who’s lost everything and looks right on the edge to me”.
“He doesn’t seem to have committed any crime, and he’s not a Govt minister,” he said.
Phillip recently admitted he can’t see a future in TV and has to talk about it in the “past tense” – something he admits kills him.
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