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Phillip Schofield is already being tipped to make a sensational return to broadcasting in 2024 after ITV formally ‘drew a line within the sand’ over his exit from This Morning, MailOnline can reveal in the present day.
The star is being tipped for a job on nationwide radio – his ‘past love’ – with Britain’s largest business stations mentioned to be jostling to deliver him in to woo new listeners from rivals, together with BBC Radio 2.
Yesterday ITV’s report has cleared bosses of a cover-up and uncovered no additional damaging claims about Mr Schofield’s relationship with a younger runner on the present.
Regardless of claims of a ‘whitewash’, trade insiders advised MailOnline in the present day that it opens the door to the 61-year-old getting a brand new big-money deal to return to work subsequent 12 months. However a senior British broadcasting supply mentioned a return to TV for Mr Schofield is ‘unlikely – for now’.
He mentioned: ‘Now {that a} line has been drawn within the sand by ITV over the Schofield saga. Consideration will now transfer on.
‘Inside a time period there’s now a spot for Phillip to return, probably not on TV but, however there at the moment are a myriad of alternatives for him on business radio the place he might be supplied huge cash to return to his past love.
‘The KC’s report provides him a contemporary probability – however no one might be stunned in any respect to see that ITV has discovered itself within the clear because it tries to avoid wasting This Morning’.
Schofield and Willoughby are pictured both facet of the person with whom he had an affair
Mr Schofield was out and about in West London yesterday with a return to radio tipped
Mr Schofield give up This Morning after he admitted to a previous relationship with a youthful male former colleague – however neither males spoke to Jane Mulcahy KC, whose report got here out yesterday.
Ms Mulcahy discovered that the unnamed runner’s promotion from This Morning to Free Girls ‘had nothing to do’ with Mr Schofield and claimed that additionally ‘just one particular person’ interviewed had data of the affair however ‘didn’t report their data at time’.
Phillip Schofield began out in native radio in New Zealand as a youngster earlier than becoming a member of the BBC, internet hosting a preferred present on Radio 1 whereas presenting Going Stay.
It now stays to be seen whether or not Britain’s hottest stations, comparable to Basic FM, Magic, Virgin, Coronary heart or different giants now swoop. Biggest Hits Radio has additionally been on a hiring spree, grabbing huge names comparable to Ken Bruce and Simon Mayo to take listeners from BBC Radio 2.
However sources have mentioned Mr Schofield might quickly be again in work.
Livid ITV employees have blasted an exterior report into Phillip Schofield’s affair with a youthful colleague as a ‘whitewash’.
Bosses on the broadcaster printed the a lot anticipated overview into the scandal and the poisonous working tradition at This Morning.
One worker advised the Mail of their ‘sheer bewilderment’ that just one junior employee was conscious of the connection.
The report discovered that ITV didn’t cover-up the connection and that station bosses had made ‘appreciable efforts’ to find the reality in 2019 – 4 years earlier than the affair broke.
Livid ITV employees have blasted an exterior report into Phillip Schofield ‘s affair with a youthful colleague as a ‘whitewash’. Pictured: Schofield and Holly Willoughby on This Morning
The exterior overview discovered that the channel was ‘unable to uncover the related proof’ till Schofield’s personal admission in Could when he advised the Mail that he had been having the connection and later lied about it.
ITV bosses have mentioned each Schofield and his former lover, a runner who has by no means been named, ‘repeatedly denied’ allegations of a relationship till the star dramatically give up ITV and formally apologised.
It added that just one particular person out of 48 interviewed – a junior worker – mentioned they knew concerning the presenter’s relationship with a youthful male former colleague earlier than he revealed it in Could.
Ms Mulcahy revealed that Schofield refused to participate within the overview into the circumstances surrounding the his departure due to ‘the danger to his well being’. She added that she was knowledgeable that the host’s psychological well being had since deteriorated.
Schofield’s former colleague and lover additionally declined to take part within the report.
Nevertheless, employees at ITV have been left cross, accusing the report of being a ‘waste of time’.
The findings did reveal that there was a tradition of silence on the channel, saying that junior workers at ITV’s This Morning nonetheless concern that talking out will injury their careers within the trade.
One employees member advised the Mail: ‘There is a chasm between this report and actuality. What’s clear is that ITV will want greater than insurance policies and procedures to deal with its tradition of silence.’
Sources at ITV say that they’ve ‘full confidence’ in This Morning editor Martin Frizell and its head of daytime, Emma Gormley.
There have been requires chief govt Dame Carolyn McCall and her quantity two Kevin Lygo to be sacked, although insiders now assume that their jobs may also be protected.
In Could Schofield, 61, admitted to having a relationship with a a lot youthful man who labored with him on This Morning, and later mendacity about it.
In a bombshell assertion to the Every day Mail, the veteran TV presenter admitted that he and the person started a relationship that was greater than a friendship. The ex-TV presenter describes this as ‘unwise however not unlawful’.
Schofield admitted the connection with a youthful male colleague (pictured collectively)
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on the couch on ITV’s This Morning on February 2
Schofield is pictured in West London on October 12 after Willoughby additionally give up This Morning
In his grovelling apology, Schofield mentioned: ‘I’m making this assertion through the Every day Mail, to whom I’ve already apologised personally for deceptive, by way of my lawyer who I additionally misled, a few story [sic] which they wished to jot down about me a couple of days in the past.
‘The very first thing I need to say is: I’m deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others a few relationship that I had with somebody engaged on This Morning. I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a youthful male colleague at This Morning.
‘Opposite to hypothesis, while I met the person when he was a youngster and was requested to assist him to get into tv, it was solely after he began to work on the present that it turned greater than a only a friendship. That relationship was unwise, however not unlawful. It’s now over…
‘I’m painfully aware that I’ve lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and mates, to my brokers, to the media and due to this fact the general public and most significantly of all to my household. I’m so very, very sorry, as I’m for having been untrue to my spouse…
‘I’m resigning from ITV with rapid impact, expressing my immense gratitude to them for all of the superb alternatives that they’ve given me.
‘I’ll mirror on my very dangerous judgement in each taking part within the relationship after which mendacity about it.’
