ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall has been asked to face questions from MPs on the This Morning row at a session of the Culture, Media and Sport committee on June 14.
Mr Schofield, 61, has admitted to a relationship with a "consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague" on Friday (May 26). The statement came after his dramatic exit from This Morning the week prior.
ITV has now instructed a barrister to carry out an external review of the facts, chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said in a letter seen by the PA news agency.
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The letter was sent to culture secretary Lucy Frazer, DCMS Committee chair Dame Caroline Dinenage and Ofcom's chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes, in the wake of Schofield's departure from ITV last week. The letter mentions the "significant media coverage concerning Phillip Schofield" and adds that: "As you would expect we take the matter extremely seriously and have reviewed our own records over the weekend."
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