'The imbalance of dynamics in that relationship makes it deeply inappropriate.'
, confirming a "consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague" at the ITV daytime show. He described the relationship as "unwise, but not illegal".
McCall explained that a lack of evidence of the relationship was the reason why ITV did not launch an official, wide-scale investigation into Schofield at the time."The people that have said they knew, would only have heard rumours about it," she said.
McCall added that an investigation would have followed "because the imbalance of power, the imbalance of dynamics in that relationship, makes it deeply inappropriate and we have policies that say that very clearly". "One of the things I hope you'll see as we go through this, is that we worked very hard for many, many months — until recently — to ask people, not just Phillip Schofield and Person X, in production if they knew something was going on, and it was repeatedly denied by both individuals."
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