Phillip Schofield steps down from ITV after affair with "much younger male"

Maybe go back and re-watch the video and it should be more obvious whose options I am talking about.

Is that how you would have acted in the same scenario?

All the guy had to do was "no comment" it, but no, he took the opportunity to be a dick. And that's with cameras rolling.

Or could have gone down the route of - I hope viewers will turn in to watch This Morning yadda yadda yadda.

 regularly working from 5am

It's a morning show.

Or do you think 2-3 hours live programming can be shunted together at 8:45?

She clearly wasn't up for the job, she went from tapping out the occasional nonsense article in glamour mags to Head Editor of News for a live television programme. She was given 8 producers and still couldn't manage. She lasted 3 months.

The person who replaced her has been in the division 13 years.

Her ranty article is just a bunch of hearsay and whinging where she can't manage to wrap her around the fact that Holly and Phil acted differently off screen, Holly went on her phone FFS!!!! 😳

The Mail on Sunday is a glamour mag now?

It's a morning show, yeah. So either you work early or you work late, one is sustainable. Both are not. And the articles talks about late night calls. Nor is working weekends over months. But of course you ignored that.

In the position she was in, it seems reasonable she should be in contact with the presenters. The other presenters engaged with her. Why not Phil and Holly?

Multiple staff at This Morning have also said they did not engage with them. Tip of the iceberg, but it shows how they viewed the other employees. And that's not the only conduct under dispute now is it?

Amazing how you love piling in on this article but nothing said about Schofield's conduct ... Why is that one wonders?

The Mail on Sunday is a glamour mag now?

The vast majority of her career is glamour mags, the company she is working for now is literally called GLAMOUR.

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Within the rules of the UK media her conduct towards him with the questions was polite.

If you have a problem with such conduct re: gate interviews point us to your other posts bothered by it.

Adult man had intimate relationship (encounters) with another adult man. Society saw potential for huge contrived/hyped outrage-scandal. Society succeeded!

Judging by the last page of comments it seems this story as far as it concerns Schofield is basically exhausted and nothing more has emerged?

I do not think a toxic bullying work environment is trivial imho

Martin Frizell, editor of ITV's This Morning could have ignored the journalist or said no comment, MPs are investigating so of course the story continues also with Holly back and the show still on ITV it is attracting attention

Aubergines should sue Martin 😄

It's a euphemism, he knew what he was doing. Do you really thing he wanted to talk about fruit, come on man.

Nearly three weeks into this circus and its still as clear as mud why PS and TM parted ways and why his agency YMU dropped him. I read that PS was a major shareholder in the agency and his daughter still works there. Also, the fued between PS and HW has been going on for years since HW set up her own agency and refused to pay YMU fees, sued and got a £1.25million settlement. Do rival agencies use sneaky tactics and leaks about affairs and liaisons that happened years ago to get contracts? Maybe it was all about the money or maybe HW wanted to run the show and now PS is finally gone.

This is the timeline and it looks like PS clashed with other female colleagues too so he had a few enemies. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/holly-willoughby-phillip-schofield-fallout-timeline-b2352172.html

LOL, do you or the baying public really care about an alleged toxic work environment?

No, they want the salacious decadent homosexual sex gossip.

If this thread was about alleged bullying at a tv channel it wouldn't have got passed page 1 and you certainly wouldn't be here pretending to care.

Anyway back to the hunt. 👍️

The government are hardly investigating an affair, they are investigating the TV show and ITV, the story isn't just about Phil's affair with a young protégé if it was I doubt everyone would distance themselves so publicly from him, his represented agency which his own daughter works at dropped him like a sack of hot potatoes surely there job is to work with clients through anything