Key points from Phillip Schofield interviews as ex-This Morning host asks 'do you want me to die'
Phillip Schofield has spoken about the affair he had with a younger male colleague for the first time since leaving ITV last week. In an interview with The Sun, he insisted he did not groom the man, while in a chat with the BBC he explained how the affair began and told of the man's age.
A victim of hate Schofield told the BBC he was not a victim of the situation around his hidden affair, but added: “I feel a victim of hate after the event, and I think there will probably be a lot of people watching this now thinking, ‘how dare you?’ Dismissed claims by former ITV presenter Dan Wootton Schofield dismissed claims by GB News presenter Dan Wootton that he had been responsible for him being fired as a contributor on ITV show Lorraine, saying the accusations had come from Wootton’s “utter, total hatred” for him.
The BBC’s Amol Rajan asked: “Do you know if he has signed an NDA, a non-disclosure agreement, preventing him from speaking?” Started in 2017 Schofield told The Sun the affair with the younger colleague began in 2017 after a “consensual moment” in his dressing room. He said: “It was not a love affair, it was not a relationship, we were not boyfriends; we were mates.The former This Morning presenter said he was struggling with his sexuality at the time, and the pair were together “maybe five or six times”. He added: “We just didn’t think anyone knew, there was no lying, we thought, stupidly, that nobody knew.
“There shouldn’t be a difference. This is where homophobia comes in. We did first meet when he was 15, I visited the drama school .” He added: “So yeah, there’s a difference. It’s accepted by Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s not accepted if it’s in the gay world.”
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