Holly Willoughby is reported to have broken her silence following Phillip Schofield's bombshell interviews following news of his high profile departure from This Morning and ITV. Schofield has given his first interviews since his affair with a younger male colleague was revealed.
He's spoken to the BBC’s Amol Rajan and to the Sun. During his interviews, Schofield praised his daughters Ruby and Molly for “guarding him”. He also said he is afraid to leave the house after the revelation of his affair with a younger male colleague. In a new interview with The Sun he said he feared being spat on in the street and that he was currently getting by “hour by hour”.
Now his former colleague and close friend Holly is understood to have given a glimpse into her feelings on the matter after she remained out of public sight in the immediate aftermath of the news. She is currently on a half term break from the ITV show and is due to return on Monday, June 5
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Sources say that Holly hasn't spoken to Phil since the revelation. Birmingham Mail reports a source told The Sun: “Holly has not spoken to Phil, but was saddened to see him like that. Seeing Phil so downtrodden and in a bad way was distressing for a number of people who know him personally. There is a big team on This Morning and it was shocking for people to see him that way. It is an incredibly sad situation. Phil has his daughters and friends supporting him now.”
Speaking to the BBC’s Amol Rajan, Schofield praised his daughters Ruby and Molly for “guarding him”.
“Last week, if my daughters hadn’t been there then I wouldn’t be here. And they’ve guarded me and won’t let me out of their sight, it’s like a weird numbness,” he said.
“I know that’s a selfish point of view. But you come to a point where you just think, how much are you supposed to take?
“If all of those people that write all that stuff, do they ever think that there’s actually a person at the other end?”
Referring to the Love Island host who took her own life in February 2020, he added: “I think I understand how Caroline Flack felt.
He said he saw “nothing ahead” of him and he had to talk about his career in television “in the past tense”.
He said: “It is relentless, and it is day after day, after day after day.
“If you don’t think that that is going to have the most catastrophic effect on someone’s mind – do you want me to die? Because that’s where I am.
“I have lost everything.”
Flack’s mother, Christine Flack, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme that Schofield was now “realising even more” what her daughter went through before her death.
Ms Flack said she hoped he had “done the right thing” by admitting to his secret affair with the man, and that they should have been “looked after” by ITV.
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