Phillip Schofield says rival TV presenter had secret age-gap affair

The former ITV This Morning star is currently starring on Channel 5 series Cast Away, a documentary which is airing each night at 9pm.

Phillip Schofield claims another TV presenter had a secret age-gap affair – but it hasn’t been exposed yet. The former ITV This Morning star is currently starring on Channel 5 series Cast Away, a documentary which is airing each night at 9pm.

He was sacked from This Morning after his revealed his affair with a much younger man. During the second episode, which aired earlier this week, the 62-year-old former This Morning star said: "Shamed, disgraced Phillip Schofield who had an affair.

"Strangely, I think another TV presenter or two might have done exactly the same thing. Difference is, heterosexual." Phillip then insisted that age gap relationships are "not an unusual thing in the gay world" during his chat with the programme.

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He continued: "If that had been the case with me and it had been a woman. Pat on the back. ''Well done mate.'' Schofield claims 'one or two' other presenters have had secret age-gap affairs and suggested that the public would have reacted differently if his affair had been with a woman.

He went on to say: “People can be fake. They can be so fake with you when it’s all going well, and suddenly utter, utter betrayal. There are a lot of amazing people in morning television. I think there are only three sh*s. One of them is a coward who never stepped up in queuegate.

"One is a coward, because they never stepped up when I was being battered And the other is just brand-orientated. Not what you expect, not what you think you’re going to get.” An external review, carried out by Jane Mulcahy KC on behalf of ITV found the channel made “considerable efforts” to find out the truth about an alleged affair between Schofield and a show runner in 2019, but was not able to find evidence about the rumours.

Schofield “reluctantly declined” to take part in the investigation because of the “risk to his health”, the report in December 2023 said. Mulcahy said that for the period she reviewed, she could not find evidence of a “toxic” culture, and urged ITV to help junior employees who think speaking out will have a “detrimental impact on their careers”.