Phillip Schofield puts luxury £1.2m flat he bought with his wife on the market and slashes the asking price by £100,000 after it was revealed he had ‘secret dates with a young lover’ in the home
Phillip Schofield is selling the flat where he spent ‘Playtime Thursdays’ with his younger lover, it is rumored.
The suspended This Morning presenter, 61, and his wife Stephanie, 59, are said to have put the ‘flawless’ two-bedroom South London penthouse on the market for £1.2 million – the same amount they paid in 2012 when it had just been built. A listing shows that the asking price has now been reduced by £100,000.
The property was where Schofield would take his junior colleague for secret rendezvous before the studio runner left the next morning in a taxi paid for by ITV, his former colleague Eamonn Holmes claimed.
“It’s been on the market for a while. Apparently there was one offer recently, but the buyer dropped out,” a source says The sun.
“It seems the Schofields now have no problem making a profit and just want to get rid of it since their split.”
Phillip Schofield enters his London apartment, which he would have now put on the market
The property was where Schofield would take his junior colleague for secret trysts before the studio runner left the following morning in a taxi paid for by ITV, Eamonn Holmes has claimed
Schofield takes a selfie in the apartment not far from the This Mornings studio
The flat, which is in a gated development, is said to be in ‘very good condition’ and the ‘perfect setting for entertaining’.
It overlooks The Shard and is near The London Studios where This Morning was filmed before the program moved to the Television Center in White City in 2018.
In an interview with Dan Wootton on GB News, Holmes claimed that Schofield’s lover had been secretly transported between ITV’s studios and the presenter’s flat in an attempt to conceal their affair.
The pair allegedly entered through an adjoining hotel to avoid suspicions of their secret dates.
Holmes said, “Thursday was playtime when he and Phillip would go to town and then obviously he stayed the night. There is evidence that he was brought in separately the next day in cars paid for by ITV.’
He called the younger man ‘nice’ and a ‘really good talented lad’ and said the taxi to work on Friday morning was part of a ‘cover up’ by ITV bosses.
He said, “Unless Phillip paid the bills separately, it would still have to go through the accounts department. They would have seen and known that.’
ITV has now been forced to bring in investigators to get to the heart of the scandal after days of mounting pressure.
Phillip shook hands with the man he was having an affair with on the Good Morning benches
Schofield and Willoughby pictured with the young man, who worked as a runner
In a humiliating descent after a crisis staff meeting, the broadcaster said it would engage a lawyer to “carry out an external assessment to establish the facts.”
The future of This Morning, co-hosted by Schofield and Holly Willoughby until he was forced to step down over an affair, is now uncertain.
ITV bosses have been urged to admit what they knew and when about the veteran presenter’s affair with a much younger colleague.
They declined to answer questions from the Mail about the investigation they claimed to have conducted in 2020 and whether a new investigation would be opened.
Schofield resigned last Friday and was dropped by his talent agency after admitting – in an extraordinary statement to this newspaper – his “ill-advised but not illegal” affair.
ITV chefs will appear before the Commons culture committee on Tuesday to be grilled about This Morning’s ‘toxic’ culture.
And Schofield himself could be dragged before MPs at a later date, as it turned out last night.
“It really depends on how it develops,” said a member of the committee. “It’s a decision for later, after we’ve established the facts.”