Phillip Schofield LIVE: Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary fill in on This Morning

Alison Hammond And Dermot O’Leary will fill in today as interim presenter of This Morning Phillip Schofield‘s exit left the show in turmoil.

Holly Willoughby is taking an early spring break and will return on June 5 in two weeks, ITV said.

Schofield, who still wears a wedding ring, is said to have consulted his ex-wife Stephanie, 59, and their two daughters, Molly and Ruby, before stepping down with “immediate effect” after more than 20 years on the program.

He was seen yesterday afternoon in Cornwall with his mother Pat, 85. He was seen on the phone, vaping and looking out to sea while standing in a car park for two hours, onlookers said.

ITV will give him six months wages, believed to be more than £300,000, but the broadcaster, 61, is said to be ‘completely broken’ and has accused his bosses of showing him ‘zero respect’ after he was suspended for amid his deteriorating relationship with his former ‘rock’ Mrs Willoughby.