ITV bosses livid over Phillip Schofield’s declare that he would have been handled in a different way if his affair was with a girl – as he takes goal on the ‘three s***s of showbiz’ who betrayed him

ITV bosses are livid at Phillip Schofield’s declare that he would have been handled in a different way if he had had an affair with a girl reasonably than a person.

The disgraced presenter who stop the channel after mendacity about his relationship with a a lot youthful This Morning colleague mentioned on his new actuality collection that he would have gotten a ‘pat on the again’ it wasn’t a gay relationship.

Nonetheless, ITV insiders say is ‘completely unfaithful’ to recommend he would have been handled in a different way as a result of it was a homosexual romance.

In the meantime, Phillip additionally took goal on the ‘three s***s of showbiz’ who betrayed him as he ranted about his downfall. 

In his much-criticised tv comeback on Channel 5 programme Solid Away, Schofield refers to himself because the ‘shamed, disgraced Philip Schofield, who had an affair’.

The 62-year-old mentioned: ‘Unusually, I believe one other TV presenter or two may need completed precisely the identical factor. Distinction is heterosexual. It isn’t an uncommon factor within the homosexual world for there to be a distinction in age teams.’

‘That is not that uncommon within the straight world, but when that had been the case with me and it had been a girl. Pat on the again. Properly completed, mate.’

Schofield mentioned that he ‘has regrets’ and acknowledges he ‘acquired one thing fallacious’ and ‘harm the individuals’ round him.

‘I do not know what value you are presupposed to pay and whether or not the worth you are paying is essentially proportionate,’ he provides.

Hitting again, a supply on the channel mentioned: ‘It is a silly factor for Phil to say, and it’s simply not true. Phil lied to his colleagues, his bosses and his pals about it, it would not have mattered if it was a girl or a person.’

They add that Schofield is unlikely to work with the channel once more regardless of his hints that he had been approached to seem on their actuality present, I am A Celeb. One supply mentioned: ‘He lied to us, it might be actually, actually tough.’

Within the programme, which airs from Monday, Schofield takes goal at a trio of his former ITV colleagues, saying: ‘I believe there are solely three s**ts.’ 

He identified that one was a ‘coward who by no means stepped up in queue gate,’ whereas one other ‘is a coward as a result of they by no means stepped up once I was being battered by that one journalist who thought I would acquired them fired.’

The third, Schofield says ‘is simply model oriented. Not what you anticipate, not what you assume you are going to get.’ 

Persevering with to take goal at those that he believes fallacious him, Phillip added of his previously long-standing TV profession: ‘They understand how essential that was to me. 

‘They know once you throw somebody beneath a bus, you have to have a very bloody good motive to do it. Model, ambition will not be adequate’, reviews The Solar.

He went on: ‘Folks might be pretend. They are often so pretend with you when it is all going properly, and instantly utter, utter betrayal.

‘There are a number of wonderful individuals in morning tv.’

He additionally insisted that he has now stop tv and does not need to make a return regardless of filming the three-part present for Channel 5 which sees him having to outlive alone in Madagascar. 

Whereas Phillip did not disclose which ITV figures he was referring to, he did take the chance to take a brutal swipe at his ex-colleagues.

Regardless of mentioning ITV Co-stars Ant, 48, and Dec, 49, in addition to Joanna Lumley, 78, his former pal Holly Willoughby is not talked about in any respect all through the 45-minute episode.

In a single outburst which can go away viewers questioning whether or not it’s aimed toward her, Schofield says: ‘Once you throw somebody beneath a bus, you have to have a very bloody good motive to do it.

‘I acquired into telly as a result of I like the nuts and bolts of telly, I by no means wished to be well-known. I am not fussed about that.

‘I miss components of it. I miss most of it, I am sincere. However there are bits that I actually, actually, actually do not miss. You study so much about individuals. I do not miss that.’ 

ITV’s fury comes as Schofield additionally hints that he was fired from the community when in truth the primary its chiefs realized of his departure was in assertion to the Mail the place he admitted the affair and mentioned he left with rapid impact.

Sources on the broadcaster additionally say that he selected to step again from presenting This Morning a fortnight earlier than following a fall out along with his former co-star Holly Willoughby.

In the meantime throughout the programme, Phillip and his household appeared to mock Holly’s well-known ‘are you okay?’ clip as he made his return to TV.

Phillip was ousted from This Morning in Might final yr, after he admitted to mendacity about his relationship with a a lot youthful male colleague. 

Holly distanced herself from her former finest good friend and throughout a ‘extremely strategised’ return to the This Morning couch in June 2023, she informed viewers she had been left ‘shaken, let down and nervous.’

When she returned, she started by saying: ‘Whats up, Firstly, are you okay? I hope so. It feels very unusual sat right here with out Phil.’

Showing to reference the now-famous speech on Solid Away, Phillip is seen having a BBQ along with his household earlier than heading off to the island. 

In a clip obtained by The Solar, he provides out meals to his spouse Stephanie and their daughters Molly,  31, and Ruby, 28, and laughs: ‘If you happen to’re okay, then we’re okay, and I am okay…are you okay?’ 

No point out of Holly is made within the clip. 

The Channel 5 present additionally took a darkish flip when Phillip informed how he had ‘every thing in place’ for a suicide try, however determined in opposition to it when his eldest daughter Molly persuaded him to not.

Talking on the primary episode of the three-part collection which airs on Monday, the previous This Morning host mentioned: ‘Within the final eighteen months, it acquired as darkish as it’s potential to get.

‘A yr in the past I acquired so, so shut. I had every thing in place, every thing was arrange and every thing was prepared and it was Molly that was taking care of me.’ 

He defined: ‘Molly and Ruby each taking care of me on the time, and Molly mentioned: ‘Do you think about what this is able to do to us for those who truly managed to drag this off? Are you able to think about what would occur and may you think about what it might do to me for those who did this on my watch?’

‘That was simply sufficient, simply sufficient to take a step again from the sting. I might have been hospitalised, I simply raced to the household residence and shut the gates and I used to be in there.’

He later pays tribute to his spouse Stephanie Lowe, Molly, 31, and his youngest daughter Ruby, 28, saying: ‘With out them, I would not be right here.’

The disgraced presenter revealed this week he was collaborating in his personal survival present simply 16 months on from leaving This Morning after admitting to having an ‘unwise however not unlawful’ fling with a junior male colleague. 

Schofield is claimed to have turned down a collection of huge cash TV gives earlier than selecting to enroll in Solid Away – which he believes will permit him to share his story in an ‘unedited and sincere’ method.

Holly left This Morning in October 23 after presenting the present alongside Schofield for 14 years.

Sources on the time mentioned she stop as a result of the present ‘wasn’t the identical’ after her co-host left however was lastly ‘tipped over the sting’ by an alleged ‘kidnap and homicide plot’, insiders have claimed.

Phillip Schofield Solid Away, which is a three-part collection, might be streamed on Channel 5 at 9pm on September 30, October 7 and October 14.