Disgraced British TV presenter Phillip Schofield has spent one other week within the headlines, following his departure from ITV’s flagship daytime present This Morning and his admission that he had a secret relationship with a runner on the present 40 years his junior.
He’ll be relieved to learn the phrases of fellow presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who has written in defence of the fallen star on this week’s Sunday Times.
Clarkson, who has endured his personal share of dangerous headlines and in XX departed from hit BBC motoring present Top Gear after a bodily altercation with a producer, wrote:
“We casually roll our eyes after we hear that Leonardo DiCaprio’s new girlfriend is three and we even nod appreciatively after we study that the age hole between Al Pacino and his pregnant girlfriend is 54 years. Which implies that when he was starring as an previous man in Scent of a Woman, she wasn’t even an embryo.
“But Phil and his toy boy? Noooo. That’s completely unacceptable…
“I’ve never seen a witch-hunt like it, and what baffles me most of all is that, as things stand, no crime has been committed. I don’t know him at all well and have no skin in the game, but it seems to me he is only guilty of being what he said he was: gay.”
Meanwhile, the story continues with this week’s developments together with:
Schofield giving interviews to the BBC and to The Sun newspaper, wherein reiterated that he had carried out nothing unlawful, however that he believed his TV profession was completed
ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall introduced that she had an instructed an impartial barrister to conduct a evaluate into the goings-on behind the scenes of This Morning, amid claims of toxicity and senior figures conspiring to maintain Schofield’s affair secret;
Confirmation that ITV bosses will seem earlier than Parliament this Wednesday to reply questions;
Reports within the weekend’s press that Schofield’s co-host Holly Willoughby will return to the present on Monday morning, following a fortnight break, and can immediately deal with the scandal, in an try to revive belief with the viewers.
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