A bitter WhatsApp message Phillip Schofield despatched to Holly Willoughby earlier than his profession downfall has been reportedly revealed.
The Solid Away star, 64, instructed Holly, 43, she had ‘introduced him down’ earlier than he left This Morning after mendacity about having an affair with a youthful colleague, it has been claimed.
He additionally reportedly stated he ‘couldn’t imagine his TV sister would do that to him.’
Schofield reportedly scolded the Dancing On Ice presenter for not exhibiting him any public help to assist dampen rumours of a rift between the 2 on them behind the scenes on the ITV present.
‘He feels it was a easy gesture that may have saved his job and her refusal to take action successfully completed him off. Believing within the TV chemistry was the bedrock of the This Morning format,’ a pal instructed The Mirror.
Willoughby reportedly refused a public gesture on the recommendation of ITV bosses and since she ‘didn’t wish to feed the narrative’ that was engulfing This Morning.
The pal claimed Schofield complained to 2 senior ITV bosses after Willoughby’s response as a result of he was so upset.
He’s additionally stated to have felt like Willoughby and a This Morning boss had staged a ‘very effectively constructed coup’ earlier than his TV profession disintegrated.
A supply instructed the publication: ‘Phillip thought of her a pal, his TV sister as he known as her, and at all times backed her, even recommending her to do the jungle. Her lack of public help was a low blow in his eyes.’
In one other bombshell declare, the pal disputed Willoughby had been ‘blindsided’ by Schofield’s brother’s arrest and had been knowledgeable of it a month after it occurred.
On Might 19, 2023, his brother Timothy Schofield was sentenced to 12 years in jail for youngster abuse.
‘There’s a narrative – uncorrected by Holly’s workforce – that she was blindsided by information of his brother’s court docket case and was livid with him for holding her at nighttime about it,’ a pal instructed The Mirror.
‘However that narrative couldn’t be farther from the reality.’
Nevertheless, a supply instructed the MailOnline that Willoughby is aggravated by these claims and insisted there isn’t a shred of fact in it.
Final week, Schofield returned to tv for the primary time in 16 months in a three-episode sequence of Solid Away on Channel 5 which noticed him stranded on a abandoned island for 10 days off the coast of Madagascar.
In the course of the present, Schofield and his household clearly mocked Willoughby, making a dig at her assertion when she returned to This Morning to deal with her co-host’s exit.
On the time she went viral for asking viewers ‘are you okay?’, and in Solid Away Schofield, his spouse Stephanie Lowe and their two kids Molly and Ruby cackled across the dinner desk as he repeated Willoughby’s unlucky catchphrase: ‘Are you okay?’
Willoughby has saved a dignified silence about her emotions in direction of Schofield since his TV comeback, which was branded a ‘automotive crash’ and was a scores flop, shedding a 3rd of its viewers between the primary and third episode.
The evening Solid Away premiered Willoughby shared a photograph of herself supporting her pal Tamzin Outhwaite on the EastEnders star’s play Abigail’s Celebration, subtly letting everybody know she had higher issues to do than watch Schofield.
Schofield returned to X for the primary time since 2021 after Solid Away aired, writing alongside an image of him sitting on a seaside: ‘Transient return to X. I’m so pleased with these reveals. Solid Away streaming now on My5.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Willoughby and Schofield’s reps in addition to ITV for remark.
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