Ex-This Morning star Phillip Schofield allegedly asked YouTuber Jack Jones not to publish a video as he caught him with his young lover.
The video shows YouTuber Jack Jones at restaurant spraying a confetti cannon with Phillip in the background sat at a table with a younger male.
Jack has since claimed: “After I did the video, he begged me not to put the video up because he said, ‘It could ruin my career’ and I said, ‘How could it ruin your carer?’ And he said he didn’t want to get into it.”
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Phillip has left ITV after he admitted to his relationship with a younger male who worked on the show.
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In his departing statement shared with Daily Mail, Phil said: “The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others about a relationship that I had with someone working on This Morning. I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.”
“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. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.
(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
“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.”
An ITV spokesperson has since commented to the Mirror and said: “When rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an employee of ITV first began to circulate 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.”
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