Phillip Schofield joked about “getting away” with things when his younger lover asked him where he saw himself in the future.
The presenter’s lover was working as an ITV production assistant at the time and in a showreel filmed in 2014, the pair joke with each other about Schofield’s long career on This Morning.
In the video viewed by MailOnline, the 61-year-old presenter jokes that he “can’t find a way out” to present This Morning after presenting the show for 12 years at the time.
The clip then cuts to Schofield’s lover musing on what “we’ll both be doing” three years from now, to which the presenter replies, “Well, if I can still get away with it, I’ll be a happy man.” ‘
The video ends with the production assistant sitting next to Holly Willoughby on the famous This Morning couch as he asks her what she thinks of his presenting skills.
‘If I still get away with it I’ll be a happy man’: Phillip Schofield’s comments to his younger lover have resurfaced in an ominous video (Phillip pictured with his lover and Holly Willoughby)
Willoughby quips, “Well, that was actually really good. You know what, don’t get too comfortable on this couch, if Phil sees you after that, there’s going to be trouble.’
As the production assistant jokes, “There you go, watch out for Scofe,” Phillip jokingly replies, “Oi, you b*****d!”
Schofield quit ITV earlier this month after admitting to the Mail that he had lied about an ‘ill-advised but not illegal’ affair with a much younger man.
He also apologized to his wife of nearly 30 years, Stephanie Lowe, who stood by him after coming out as gay in 2020.
Willoughby, his former co-host of 13 years, said in a terse statement Saturday that she asked Scofield directly if the news was true and that it was “very hurtful to now find out this was a lie.”
The Mail on Sunday told how Schofield was in his late 40s when he first met his sweetheart while giving a lecture to a theater school in the North West. The younger man was 15 at the time and he asked the TV veteran if he would help him get a job in show business. At the age of 18, the teenager moved to London and worked on This Morning, on which she had an ‘on-off’ relationship.
The fallout from Schofield’s affair has deepened as the host’s former lover claimed he was not questioned about it by ITV, despite the company insisting there would be an investigation involving both men.
Calls for an independent inquiry into the scandal gathered momentum, with ITV’s top bosses coming under increasing pressure to admit what they knew and when about Schofield’s relationship.
The ex-lover has vowed not to lie about the relationship, which Schofield described as ‘ill-advised but not illegal’, but has left his 38-year TV career in tatters.
Out: Schofield quit ITV on Friday after admitting to the Mail that he had lied about an ‘ill-advised but not illegal’ affair with a much younger man
Sources told the Mail the former production assistant insists ‘he was never asked’ about the romance, with another ITV insider saying: ‘Everyone just knew.’
A source said: ‘It’s time for some truths to be told now, this has been swept under the rug for so long and it needs to come to an end. The younger man has now come to the point where he won’t lie to anyone, but in fact he says he was never asked about a relationship by ITV.
“It’s time for people to be held accountable, or at least account for themselves.”
An ITV spokesman stood his ground, saying: “Both sides have been questioned.”
But the network declined to say when the interrogation took place, or who conducted it.
On Monday, Schofield slammed “a handful of people” with “persistently loud voices” in a statement days after leaving This Morning – refuting claims of a “toxic” culture.
In a statement posted to his Instagram, the host said, “Now that I’m no longer working on This Morning, I’m free to say this. I hope you’ve noticed that it’s the same handful of people with a grudge against me or the show that seem to have the loudest voice.
“This Morning IS the best show to work on, with the best people. In all the years I worked there, there was no toxicity. You can listen to those persistently loud voices if you want.
“But the thousands of guests over the years, thousands of staff and crew members, hundreds of presenters and contributors all know: It IS a family of wonderful, talented, nice, hard, working people.”
It comes after Dr Ranj Singh, a regular guest on This Morning, accused the show of having a ‘toxic’ culture of bullying and discrimination, adding that he had taken his concerns to ‘the top’, but the feeling had that he was ‘managed’. out’ and was removed from the screens.
Hurt: Schofield quit ITV after admitting lying about an ‘ill-advised but not illegal’ affair. Willoughby said in a brief statement that it was “very hurtful to find out now that this was a lie”