ITV has instructed a barrister to carry out an external review of the facts following Phillip Schofield’s departure from This Morning, ITV’s chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall has said NickMDuffy reports
In a letter to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer and others, ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall confirmed a review would be carried out after the broadcaster said it had investigated rumours of an affair between Schofield and a much younger male employee onShe said: “You will have seen the significant media coverage concerning Phillip Schofield.
“These show that when rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an employee of ITV first began to circulate in late 2019/early 2020, ITV investigated. “Given the ongoing rumours, we continued to ask questions of both parties, who both continued to deny the rumours, including as recently as this month. There has been a lot of inaccuracy in the reporting so I thought it would be useful to set out some facts.
“We consider our approach was reasonable and proportionate at the time and in the circumstances. We believe that we did not have any grounds to mount any other sort of investigation.”before Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport CommitteeThere have been some calls for Dame Carolyn and other ITV executives to resign over their handling of the affair, while the future ofSchofield’s co-host
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