Phillip Schofield affair: Everything we know about This Morning worker who had affair with ITV star
PHILLIP Schofield had an affair with a "much younger" This Morning worker while still married, The Sun can reveal.
The 61-year-old has apologised to his wife after the shocking affair was exposed.
Here's everything we know about the This Morning worker who had an affair with Phillip Schofield.
What do we know about the This Morning worker Phillip Schofield had an affair with?
Phillip Schofield had an affair with a "much younger" This Morning worker while still married.
It’s understood the younger man, who was a teen when he met Schofield, is not a public figure and did not want the relationship to be revealed.
In a statement, Schofield said he's "deeply sorry" for the affair which he said was “unwise, but not illegal”.
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What has Phillip Schofield said about his affair?
In a statement Schofield said: "I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague.
"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship.
"That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over. When I chose to come out I did so entirely for my own wellbeing. Nobody 'forced' me out.
"Neither I nor anyone else, to my knowledge, has ever issued an injunction, super or otherwise, about my relationship with this colleague, he was never moved on or sacked by or because of me.
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"In an effort to protect my ex-colleague I haven't been truthful about the relationship.
"But my recent, unrelated, departure from This Morning fuelled speculation and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake it is important for me to be honest now.
"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.
"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.
"To protect his privacy, I am not naming this individual and my deepest wish is that both he and his family can now move on with their lives free from further intrusion, and that this statement will enable them to do so.
"I ask the media now to respect their privacy. They have done nothing wrong, and I ask that their privacy should be respected."
Read more on Phillip Schofield:
- Phillip Schofield admitted he had affair with a much younger male This Morning employee,
- Schofield apologised to his wife Stephanie Lowe,
- Read Schofield's statement in full,
- The star's agency revealed why they dropped him,
- Schofield resigned from ITV and stepped down from presenting the British Soap Awards,
- Eamonn Holmes launched fresh attack on Schofield,
- ITV broke its silence on Schofield's "deceit",
- Rylan Clark shared a cryptic post hours after affair bombshell.
Schofield has been been dropped by his agent YMU, which said in a statement: “Honesty and integrity are core values for YMU’s whole business, defining everything we do.
"Talent management is a relationship based entirely on trust.
"This week, we have learned important new information about our client Phillip Schofield."
Schofield said: "It is with the most profound regret that after 35 years of being faultlessly managed by YMU I have agreed to step down from their representation with immediate effect.”
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Phillip Schofield was still married to his wife Stephanie Lowe at the time of the affair, who he married in 1993.
Schofield opened up about being gay in 2020, but remained married to wife Stephanie.