"Everybody At ITV Knew!" Piers Morgan Reacts To Phillip Schofield Scandal

welcome back and it's good to be back uh the media scrutiny around this morning presenter Phillip Schofield has been relentless since he resigned over two weeks ago and sat down to talk to his son on the BBC, he talked about losing him all after allowing an affair with a young colleague I understand how Caroline Flack felt last week if my daughters hadn't been there I wouldn't be here who she

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on the team no one well today the key member of her team of course Holly Willoughby is co-host She comes back to this morning saying she feels shaken, worried and disappointed.

Imagine that you might have felt as if I had been shaken. and all of us this morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth and who acted in a way that they themselves felt they had to resign from ITV and abandon a career they loved, that's a lot for Well, we all know about leaving the jobs we love at ITV, but there are big questions left to answer about this

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or is it time to say enough is enough, do you want us to talk? or there is a journalist, the cleaning man from North Jenny, talk to me.

Richard Tice and Rosanna fit my standard, but not for long, like if they're all standing up, she's plotting and plotting to take over the big chair. Okay, no comments. Well, if you're not, you should be. What do you take away from all this? I mean, me. I've been reading about this for a week, obviously while he was lying on a sun lounger and it reached a crescendo after Schofield gave the interviews of him. Well, I looked. I've known him for a long time, 35 years. I wrote a biography of Philip Schofield literally in the '90s um and I looked at the guy and thought you're completely broken, yeah, and when someone is in that condition, um, although I felt like his comparison to Carolina Flack was clumsy and probably shouldn't Having said that, he probably meant it. he probably he felt that he was genuinely what's left.

I can also commit suicide, what do you think of the whole thing? Where are we now with this story? I mean, the question you asked us was: should we continue to worry? too far away now I would say it was too far away a week ago I was saying this when I sat in his chair at this time last week why does the public care about this? I really don't give a damn, it's a TV show. maybe a little reductionist I know it's representative of other issues in society I know people are interested but sometimes what's in the public interest is not what's in the public interest Richard uh, for me Pez, actually, he was probably right giving that interview because he highlighted to everyone how he felt and I think that was the moment where people stopped attacking him and focused on what I think is the right thing to focus on, which is leadership and management terribly incompetent people at ITV, which is actually a It's very important, the only thing I know for sure is that a lot of people at ITV

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about the rumors about this relationship.

I mean, everyone knew it at ITV. Let's be very clear: the construction was a big stir for about three years, because three years ago the national government TV Awards on the ITV box, the young man involved in the mystery, uh, confessed his undying love for Phillip Schofield, everyone they knew, so this idea that all of management is basically leaving, we didn't know anything, come on, that proves my point that I. I know that's not true, I mean she has presided over an absolutely catastrophic performance of this company, the stock is down 60, the dividends are down. Ford has said she is being called to the select committee and yet the non-executive directors are saying nothing, the company said nothing at a corporate level, you know about this and Dame Carolyn, uh, God bless her, she was the CEO when I left Good Morning Britain and was put in a position where I had to apologize for not believing Princess Pinocchio or I had to get out of there immediately.

It wasn't a consultation for me, it was like now you publicly apologize for not believing Meghan Markle's lies, as it turned out, or you have to leave immediately, so I took the option of leaving immediately, huh, but the fascinating thing is that two days after I left. uh the Telegraph newspaper publishes a story saying that Meghan Markle had written to name Carolyn on Monday night before I left on Tuesday demanding my head on a plane, no one thought to mention that to me and if they had, I wouldn't have done it. I was so quick to leave.

I would have said I'm not leaving because a princess tells you to make me leave right now, so now put it into high gear. Now damn Carolyn McCall herself has repeatedly said in public that she had nothing to do with it. the decision to force me out that's a lie if you're watching Dame Carolyn that's a lie you know it's a lie I know it's a lie I don't want a continued fight with ITV I had a great time on ITV even though I didn't I didn't even get a piece of land for a carriage when I was gone 15 years not even a watch, yes, but what were you?

I mean, what would you do with the watch if you could work in a factory? Does someone give you a watch? I didn't even get a thank you, at least Schofield got 30 seconds of Derma early Monday thanking him I have nothing, I tripled the grades not even again, so management and leadership on a serious point, this is my point, well, This is a serious point, my point really is my own. The experience in managing interviews from the top down is that when it suits them, they lie through their teeth. Secondly, the way they handle talent is morally schizophrenic depending on who you are and how important they think you are to the firmament at any given time. or how important their agency is in the case of Phillip Scoville and so on, people like Holly Willoughby, um, they look at all that stuff, they make moral judgments based on that kind of stuff, that's where they lose me, it's not consistent, There is no worry, right?

The thing is that everything will come to light because there will be an investigation, yes, and I think it's really good that there is an investigation. I think if this had happened at the BBC they should have called an inquiry. Long before, I think there was a feeding frenzy that has been spurred by some people who have personal problems or perhaps jealousy of both Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield that has allowed this story to have momentum. over and over again in a relentless way that may not necessarily make the movie again has made a lot of enemies, it's not a secret, I know quite a few people, mutual friends who can't stand it and really can't stand it and didn't give no sign of it Amanda Holden Eamonn Holmes People like that they can't stand the guy, right, um, so that wasn't a secret, uh, but I wrote a bit with chalk and cheese, although my mates, as you know very Well, you know some people.

I'd rather be a pleasant surprise and a bitter disappointment. My argument about the ITV and firmament data was that many of them were just total effects. I wrote this article for the sun when it was first published 10 days ago and it's all basically False, right, a lot of them aren't real people, so they tell you to your face: I love you, I love what you do, you guys are mates so fabulous and then, behind your back, you hear, but almost immediately, that they despise you and can't. wait to get your job it's like it's a matter of edification, there are a lot of broadcasts like that it is uh, yes, yes, it is, yes, it is and there are many bosses that tell you that you are wonderful, you ask yourself, you normalize lying and That seems to be what happened here is that the lies went on and on, you know, if something is false it's essentially a lie and that's happening throughout the organization, did Holly really not know that?

I mean, your speech today reminded me that we have a little bit of that here I think let's have Holly reimagine that you might have felt like I was shaken, worried, disappointed, worried about the well-being of people on all sides of what was happening. She knew what she reminded me of was This Kessler, my co-host and partner of 15 years, was fired today for sexual misconduct. Stay strong above all. I want to offer our solidarity and support to women. We are devastated that this happened during our tenure and our hearts go out to you and to you at home I understand how you must feel because me and the entire team here at the morning show are feeling the same thing shock disappointment disbelief she is throwing me under the bus well I want to say aside from the white dress that it was a good touch, the Angelic Look, I like Hollywood Beach.

She is a good friend of mine. I have known this government for a long time. do and do what she did um it's just that again I wrote in this article like that the speed with which people go from being Heroes in this game right where charities go out of their way to use them on their friends, people think about their friends at work. no there is a message here, they are not in most cases, in most cases, they will throw you under a bus and into a grave as soon as they look at you and at the same time they will call the bosses trying to do right your work, is exactly the nature of the Beast.

He's ruthless, he's horrible and we've seen him exposed at his worst, but it was outside my question. I guess we start with this, right? At some point you have to move on from this. Unless something comes out unless the young man involved in this story who completely discovered romance when he comes out and contradicts Philips Global's version of events or someone else comes out with new Revelations, what more do people want? Villa Schofield is a broken guy, yes he is. he won't work in television again, he's almost certainly lost everything in his life, yeah, uh, I don't know what else the Twitter mob from Philly to Schofield won that they haven't already lost and that's what was so evident from of that. interview, he was an empty shell and I agree with you that the comparison to Caroline Flack is clumsy, but I remember watching her documentary where she says that she used to go home after recording her shows and just read all the tweets and all the comments and she felt increasingly empty. and it reminds you that yes, people in show business, presenters are overpaid, it's a lovely life, but they're also human and it really kills someone's soul to be attacked like that mercilessly day after day, but I will say that this has this morning's grades.

They have never been higher than this morning. I don't know, we'll find out. I'm talking about Hollywood's problem if they were gigantic for the first half minute and then plummeted. I mean, we'll see. Look, it's not funny. for her, obviously she's being very tight, it's difficult, it's difficult, you're in an arranged marriage of these situations, I was in one, suddenly, you're divorced, right, it's very, you know, difficult to maintain and when you say what what what to do people want, they want it destroyed, they want the Ax program and there are some people who know you as suitable professionals or who want the job and will continue as soon as you know the results of this investigation and I.

I'm not saying everyone is going a little crazy, but this was the boss this morning, Martin Brazil, who is a good guy, and in my experience, this is how he reacted this morning to Sky News, he said what a toxic one. I always found toxic is eggplant do you like eggplant is there a toxic job do you like eggplant because I don't like eggplant it's just a personal thing there is a typical atmosphere this morning I have heard about what about that is new someone mentioned it could be an emoji, a reference. I don't think we really want to go there, but these situations drive everyone a little crazy.

This will probably stay quiet until the investigation comes out and if the investigation finds out that actually the administration and the leadership and the board knew about this then I think the whole pack of cards falls apart and it's a fresh start, you know what. The hardest problem for Holly Willoughby will be who to replace and with whom, because if not, Anna Ray, she's already gone through about 15 guys. and none of them, none of them measure up to me and that's a heartbreaking, heartbreaking moment, hard act to follow, yeah, I was trying to say that, let's throw face, are you all like, oh, de Right, it's a joke, look, when one of them was Aleister Campbell?

You can understand, my God, talk about ruining the audience, maybe you couldn't do it. Actually, because she directs it and then she has sort of a guest host every week. Yes, that's what she's doing. I think it's a fascinating scenario. I think probably more. People in the country now, if not in the world at large, just light bulb with it, short of a new lightbulb, move on, don't you think? Yes, yes, I think so.