Phillip Schofield has insisted he did not play any part in helping to secure a job on This Morning for his young lover - and also denied rumours of ‘hush money’ being paid out.
Describing their relationship as ‘unwise but not illegal’, he said he hadWhile the pair had met when the young man was 15, the 61-year-old has now said thatFirst meeting when Schofield went to speak to students at the boy’s drama school, the teenager later got in contact to ask if he could ‘visit the studios’ for a ‘work experience-type of thing’.
‘I follow 11,300 people, and in all the time I’ve been on Twitter, there has never been any whiff of impropriety,’ he said. Speaking about the circumstances of the young man then coming to work on his show, Schofield said in his tell-all interview withSchofield has insisted he did not help the young man secure a job on the ITV show ‘I told him: “I think I can get you an interview, but I can’t get you the job. If you get in and screw it up I can’t save you”,’ he recalled.
Schofield also said he never used ITV money to pay for taxis for the man, saying that he ‘didn’t have an ITV account’. After eventually leaving This Morning, the man then went on to work on Loose Women before leaving ITV in 2021.
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