Phillip Schofield 'cover up' the 'biggest in TV since Jimmy Savile' | Dan Wootton and Nigel Farage

First things first, this whole world of celebrity and showbiz you've lived and breathed for years for me, it's a passing interest. I am more involved in economics and politics and yet I have known for two and three years that there was a scandal. with an ITV involving Phillip Schofield and a young man, a real young man who was working on the show, so if I've known it all this time, you've known it forever, why is it only now that this story has been revealed well . I think that's what's so shocking about this story Nigel, it's actually not even about Phillip Schofield's personal life.

I don't mind. I don't care who. Philip Schofield. I'm saying that's what that argument could be valid, that's what I'm saying, but this 18 year old kid, yeah, I think you'll tell us more, but this 18 year old kid was actually working on the same show, so I mean, there. It's a question about abusive positions, well that's the point I want to make and we don't care that Phillip Schofield is gay. Some people would obviously think that it was very wrong that he was cheating on his wife, who had to live with her betrayal for so many years that is an opinion that is completely fine, but it is not a scandal.

What is a scandal here is the fact that Phillip Schofield met this team very, very young. Some people say that when he was just a child, then they helped him get work experience this morning. where he came in and made videos and met Holly and like you say, those videos are all over the internet and apparently when the guy was 18 they started a sexual relationship. Now I realized this when they brought it out this morning. show when her relationship with Philip Soward and moved on to another show called Loose Women and at that time Nigel everyone knew this story on ITV during the day because because the boy was very unhappy he had been through a lot of trauma and I went to ITV with To get the details of the story, in November 2019 I spoke to a guy named Paul Moore, who is Carolyn McCordy's right-hand man.

Uber woke up the CEO of the organization, who used to be at The Guardian, and was told this was just malicious gossip, so I saw Eamonn Holmes there clearly saying this is a

cover

-up and to me that's why this story It matters, isn't it funny? Because ITV is very keen to get rid of people you know, Piers Morgan, although I think he's a bit obsessive about Meghan Markle, but he clearly wasn't toeing the line, he was gone, he was out other presenters Jeremy Clarkson Carol McGiffin yeah, yeah You don't, here is the line awake you are out yes, so here is this here is this virtue that tells the ITV channel who gets rid of people for not changing the line and, however, if what you say is true and I don't disbelieve him for a moment, when it is a very serious accusation of what was happening, Within decided to

cover

it up well and why not just investigate.

In November 2019, when this story was clearly explained to you, you will remember that Philip He later appeared on TV and Eamon, in our interview screening tonight, says he felt tricked and ambushed into being part of a TV performance to get Philip out there. when now he feels like that coming out was simply to help cover this up and the coming out story was to bury the story of being put in a tabloid, yeah, because a couple of days before at the National Television Awards , which were those awards shows that you remember Holly and Philip would always go and get really drunk and then show up the next day hungover on the couch that night at these National Television Awards this poor young man who was clearly traveling at the time had gotten really drunk and He spoke to Holly and Philip about what was going on.

He also spoke to several senior executives at ITV and spoke to me that night to talk about his pain at how he had been treated, so I'll emphasize it again: I don't really care about Phillip's private life. Schofield. it's about what this means for ITV as an organisation, why are they prepared to protect a very high powered star and not look after a clearly troubled young member of staff? And there was no doubt about it. I mean, apparently you know that taxes were taking this young man away. from ITV Studios to Schofield's flat, yes, Eamonn reveals it tonight and it's an extraordinary revelation, actually, that Philip would have something called game time on Thursday with this young runner and then the next morning the taxis would take the young runner from his home in Phillips to the ITV studio, so it seems quite hard to believe that if ITV had actually investigated what was going on because we should say Nigel, they claim they did investigate, they say there was an investigation at the beginning of 2020, but again, that was two months after I first went to them. with the story and remember this relationship had been going on for a good couple of years at that point, yeah, and the cover-up and amen, by the way, I mean, he really talks, I mean, he's very angry, he's about this and that's because he was attracted to this whole coming out thing and then they used him and then he got sad and sat him down for saying something that was slightly outside the accepted wisdom of the time, so I can see the anger in Eamonn Holmes, but there is an is interesting.

It is not like this? It's not just Eamonn Holmes versus Phillip Schofield, you're involved in this. He mentioned Amanda Holden, he mentioned Dr. Singh, so it's almost like it's Schofield V and he keeps making statements. Well, yes, he said today that there was absolutely no toxicity this morning because there are a lot of claims about this show being an incredibly toxic place to work. I guess what I would say to Philip is that it's not very toxic that you somehow have management. moving your young person to another program while he has some type of crisis just so you don't have to work with him every day, that's pretty toxic stuff.

Eamonn actually has many other examples of the toxicity in this. tomorrow, but I think the really important thing here is what ITV knew, when and who knew this and why they decided not to investigate and, as you say, they are a bomb, they are a public company, their share price is expected, no , I'm in. Ash tomorrow morning and a lot of people on TV are saying that they are not comparing the crimes in any way because we must emphasize that Philip has admitted that he was wrong and has said that there was absolutely nothing illegal about what happened so I just want I emphasize that, but they are saying that in terms of a cover-up, this is the

biggest

cover-up on television since the Jimmy Savile scandal at the BBC and of course we believed that that would not happen and I think what is really irritating to a lot of people GB news viewers Nigel, it's just that ITV preaches to us all the time, they remember during the coverage of his coronation saying how terribly white the balcony was and there was no apology for that, the only thing they seem to care about is BLM, the inclusion and diversity, and I love posting this image of them as a holier-than-thou paragon of virtue and the home of virtue, but this was happening, they knew it, several people told them about it and they said, you know what this is all just a It's too much to handle because we want to keep the lovely Holly and Philip, yeah, and it's because I mean, were they afraid that losing Phillips Schofield and losing the show would hurt their income?

Yes, as simple as that, that's what I believe because otherwise, why? I mean, at the time I told Paul more than the group, our Director of Corporate Affairs for the channel, and I just want to be very specific so people know that this is not rumors or hearsay. You know, I said it at the time. Because? You didn't do your research and I'll just make another point because I think it's really important to say because Eamon has been getting a lot over the weekend as well. A lot of people have said, well, if you knew about this, why didn't you speak up? and all I would say is that we tried and, while I was executive editor of the Sun in December 2019, I wrote a version of this story which talked about a young runner this morning who had moved on to single women after some time with Philip. but I think it's worth pointing out that libel laws in this country really hurt freedom of the press, we don't have anything like the first amendment in the US and there are journalists in the UK all the time trying to reveal threats to the rights, yes, and the Of course, in the end, various acts over years and years and years people try to expose what everyone knows because everyone there were many legal threats and where do you get the information about Philip Schofield?

In your opinion, no I don't know, I don't know if it's Philip Schofield, but what I do know is that there is a lot more to come about ITV and toxicity, and ITV is a real bad apple of a company. All of this happened under Carolyn's supervision. McCall and I find it very difficult to see, given the standards she expects from the people who work for her, how she can continue, so this morning's show will be scrapped and renamed, in her opinion, they will keep it for now and We're fighting to keep it but it's what viewers really believe in and I've got to be honest Nigel, I tuned in this morning and I remember this must be a very happy show yeah and I felt like oh my god that's the place unhappiest in the world.

United Kingdom, who were devastated, it is as if the veneer had been broken. I think heads are going to roll. Dan, you've been intimately involved in this story. We hope to see the full 17 minutes with Eamonn Holmes at nine o'clock tonight.