'Both parties were questioned and both categorically and repeatedly denied.'
) reads: "Further to our statement last night, ITV can confirm that when rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an employee of ITV first began to circulate in early 2020, ITV investigated.
"Both parties were questioned and both categorically and repeatedly denied the rumours, as did Phillip's then-agency YMU.and were not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour. "Phillip's statement yesterday reveals that he lied to people at ITV, from senior management to fellow presenters, to YMU, to the media and to others over this relationship."
In his statement yesterday, Schofield referred to the relationship as "consensual" and "unrelated" to his departure from the daytime TV giant."Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television," he wrote, "it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship. That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over.
Holly Willoughby will remain on the show but is on break until June 5. Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary took over hosting duties last week and briefly
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