Eamonn Holmes has claimed the friendship between his old This Morning co-stars Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield was “false”.
There is no love lost between the GB News presenter and former colleague Phillip. And Holmes has been outspoken about Schofe amid his fall from grace, which saw him exiting This Morning in 2023 and admitting that he had what he termed an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague at ITV.
Holly and Phillip were close friends before the scandal, but Eamonn has now taken aim at that, sniping on GB News: “It was very much a false relationship.”
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He spoke out amid a discussion about reports that Phillip reached out to Holly during his scandal. According to the Mirror, he had been hoping for a public show of support and messaged Holly on WhatsApp the day before it was confirmed he had been axed from This Morning, suggesting she had been part of his downfall.
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Showbiz journalist Stephanie Tayki was on GB News, and questioned why Eamonn thought that about Phil and Holly’s friendship, and he replied: “Because look at the way it ended.
“If this was your friend you would come out and you would say, ‘Look something bad has happened here and I don’t agree with it’,” he said. “But she said nothing, absolutely nothing, she was protecting herself,” he claimed.
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Eamonn’s co-host Isabel Webster chimed in: “I suppose you could argue that Holly lost her career over all of this as well.” But Eamonn looked stunned as he asked: “She lost her career?” The presenter said that Holly’s career was actually “stronger” than ever.
“She’s not on This Morning but she’s on Netflix and she’s on other stations,” he said. “This Morning is a daytime TV programme. She doesn’t need This Morning.”
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Phillip has recently made a comeback of sorts on Channel 5 show Cast Away, which saw him stranded on a desert island off Madagascar for 10 days totally alone, as he set about telling his side of the story. In the show, he opened up about how low he was over the controversy, admitting “it got as dark as it is possible to get”, and discussed how he didn’t see himself ever going back to daytime television.
In the last of the three episodes, he lit a ceremonial bonfire on the beach and burned a piece of paper containing the names of people who he felt were “toxic” in his life. “Now the toxic bank is empty,” he told viewers. “The goodness bank is full.”
Daily Star has contacted representatives for Holly and Phillip for comment.
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