{"id":141693,"date":"2023-09-27T10:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=141693"},"modified":"2023-09-27T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:34:58","slug":"itv-review-into-phillip-schofields-behaviour-on-this-morning-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/tv-movies\/itv-review-into-phillip-schofields-behaviour-on-this-morning-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV review into Phillip Schofield\u2019s behaviour on This Morning \u2018delayed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review into how ITV handled Phillip Schofield\u2019s behaviour has reportedly been delayed until later this year, despite it originally being expected to be published this month. <\/p>\n

The This Morning star, 61, stepped down from his role before resigning from all ITV presenting duties after admitting to having an \u2018unwise but not illegal\u2019 affair with a younger male former colleague.<\/p>\n

The incident led to further allegations of there being a \u2018toxic\u2019 culture at This Morning, with TV medic Dr Ranj Singh and Eamonn Holmes among those speaking out against the show. <\/p>\n

Metro reported how an external review was launched to establish how ITV handled the allegations against Phillip. <\/p>\n

It said a letter from ITV Chief Dame Carolyn McCall sent to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, DCMS Committee Chair Dame Caroline Dinenage, and Ofcom Chief Executive Dame Melanie Dawes stated that ITV was taking the matter \u2018extremely seriously.\u2019<\/p>\n


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The letter stated that: \u201cRumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an employee of ITV first began to circulate in late 2019\/early 2020."<\/p>\n

This then reportedly led to ITV launching an investigation, however, 'both parties repeatedly denied the rumours, as did Phillip\u2019s then agency YMU.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, Broadcast has reported that "the external review into ITV\u2019s handling of its initial investigation into Phillip Schofield\u2019s conduct has been delayed until later this year."<\/p>\n

Dame Carolyn reportedly claimed that while ITV was making \u2018significant progress\u2019 with the investigation and had conducted \u2018multiple witness interviews,\u2019 the report that was \u2018anticipated by the end of September\u2019 is now expected to be \u2018completed later this year.\u2019<\/p>\n


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Last month, ITV\u2019s Managing Director Kevin Lygo said that the report by Jane Mulcahy KC, who is leading the review of Schofield\u2019s departure, would be completed in September. <\/p>\n

Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, he said: "She [Mulcahy] has been talking to everybody involved, they take your phone and look at every single text you\u2019ve ever sent, email, WhatsApp. So, everything is available, lots of interviews, talking to everybody, and I hope as soon as possible, but probably in September, she will make that public."<\/p>\n

In June, the broadcaster\u2019s Chief Executive Dame Carolyn told MPs during a government committee how both Phillip and his younger colleague had denied the affair \u2018both formally and informally.\u2019<\/p>\n

After stepping down from his role in May, the presenter then admitted to lying about the relationship. In a statement, he apologised to ITV, saying: \u201cI am deeply sorry for having lied to them and to many others about a relationship that I had with someone working on This Morning. <\/p>\n

"I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.\u2019"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n