Former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield has blamed his brother for his departure from ITV, saying he was “fired for another person’s crime”.
Within the closing episode of Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Forged Away, the 62-year-old revealed he would “by no means in one million years” determine to return to daytime TV.
Schofield went on to say he had at all times been “open and trustworthy with everybody at work about what was taking place” together with his brother Timothy.
His 54-year-old brother was convicted in April 2023 of 11 sexual offences involving a baby between October 2016 and October 2019, together with two of sexual exercise with a baby.
On the Channel 5 present he mentioned he refused “to call and refuse to acknowledge” his brother who he claimed he had “completely no qualms by any means in buying” to police, who he mentioned had “praised” him for getting “justice accomplished”.
Former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield has blamed his brother for his departure from ITV , saying he was “fired for another person’s crime ”
His 54-year-old brother (pictured) was convicted in April 2023 of 11 sexual offences involving a baby between October 2016 and October 2019, together with two of sexual exercise with a baby
The Oldham-born presenter mentioned: ‘Despite the fact that they knew all the information the papers painted me out to be some kind of complicit agent.
‘That was when my world began to break down. My poor mum, needed to inform her about that member of the household. To interrupt that to your mom is hard.
‘And I needed to undergo all the pieces with the hierarchy at ITV. The total whole story in order that they knew I hadn’t accomplished something unsuitable. The total story.’
He added: ‘Every thing got here to a head the day earlier than he was sentenced when my agent referred to as.
‘My telephone rang and I picked it up, “mate, are you someplace quiet”, which is rarely a superb signal, “I’ve acquired a little bit of a shock, I’m afraid you’ve been let go from This Morning”. What? “Yeah that’s it, it’s accomplished. You’re not going again on Monday”.
‘What? due to what? “Suppose it’s the publicity, mate”, that’s acquired nothing to do with me, that has nothing to do with me.
‘Why would I be sacked for one thing another person did? I’ve simply been fired due to him. As a result of I used to be turning into extra of a narrative than the programme.
‘It was higher for the present, higher for the channel. And I agreed to say that I’d resigned as a result of it will be neater for everyone.
Schofield went on to say he had at all times been “open and trustworthy with everybody at work about what was taking place” together with his brother Timothy
Schofield is pictured together with his brother in 2017, six years earlier than his conviction and imprisonment
Timothy informed Phillip he had carried out a intercourse act and watched pornography within the presence of {the teenager}
Philip admitted to a secret affair with a youthful male colleague at ITV present This Morning (pictured on set with Holly Willoughby) however strongly denies accusations of grooming
‘I used to be at all times open and trustworthy with everybody at work about what was taking place with my brother. I used to be fired for the dangerous publicity, for another person’s crime.
‘And the factor is a couple of week later, I blew my very own wheels off with all the pieces else (his affair), as a result of I assumed the one solution to even start to place this proper for everyone is to do a full mea culpa.’
An ITV supply has since dismissed Schofield’s claims.
‘Phillip’s new feedback are merely unfaithful, he’s mendacity once more,’ an insider informed The Mirror.
‘We stood by him by way of his brother’s court docket case and he then stepped away when issues turned an excessive amount of. There was quite a bit occurring and a few relationships on the programme had grow to be untenable as was reported on the time.
‘He then admitted himself he had been mendacity about an affair and he resigned from ITV altogether. We did not sack him, he lied to us after which he resigned, there’s not a lot else to say and we as a community simply wish to transfer on.’
Phillip with youthful brother Timothy on the Silverstone Grand Prix. The presenter now claims he was sacked ‘for another person’s crime’
‘I used to be at all times open and trustworthy with everybody at work about what was taking place with my brother. I used to be fired for the dangerous publicity, for another person’s crime’ he says on Forged Away
Schofield admitted to a secret affair with a youthful male colleague at ITV, however strongly denies accusations of grooming.
Regardless of the claims on the Channel 5 present that he was dropped from This Morning, when leaving the programme greater than a 12 months in the past, Schofield claimed he had resigned.
On the time Schofield denied he had been “compelled out”, and mentioned he was “so very, very sorry” for mendacity to ITV, his colleagues, spouse and associates.
An exterior assessment, carried out by Jane Mulcahy KC on behalf of ITV discovered the channel made “appreciable efforts” to search out out the reality about an alleged affair between Schofield and a runner in 2019, however was not capable of finding proof concerning the rumours.
Schofield “reluctantly declined” to participate within the probe due to “the chance to his well being”, the report in December 2023 mentioned.
‘… per week later, I blew my very own wheels off with all the pieces else (his affair), as a result of I assumed the one solution to even start to place this proper for everyone is to do a full mea culpa,’ he provides
An ITV supply has since dismissed Schofield’s claims relating to his departure from the mainstream channel as ‘unfaithful’
Mulcahy mentioned that for the interval she reviewed, she couldn’t discover proof of a “poisonous” tradition, and urged ITV to assist junior staff who assume talking out may have a “detrimental affect on their careers”.
On the finish of the Channel 5 programme, Schofield mentioned he was undecided on whether or not he would return to presenting.
Starting to tear up, he mentioned: ‘Now I’m not saying I’m accomplished however you recognize, by no means in one million years will I’m going again to daytime telly. I’ve lived 100 TV lives.’
On the finish of the programme, Schofield could possibly be seen reuniting together with his daughter Molly, 31, and their canine, with Molly saying she was “proud to say he’s my dad”.
Phillip Schofield: Forged Away airs for 3 nights from Monday September 30, at 9:00pm on Channel 5, and is out there to stream on My5.