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In 2018, the man was among the This Morning team as they took to the stage to accept an NTA.<\/p>\n
He was also pictured at the O2 Arena in 2020 kissing Holly Willoughby on the cheek and having a brief conversation with the presenter and her husband Dan Baldwin.<\/p>\n
Phillip is not seen in the photographs with the man but was also at the event alongside his then-wife Stephanie Lowe.<\/p>\n
According to the Daily Mail, before the photographs were taken the man \u201cdeclared his love\u201d for Phillip, to the astonishment of their ITV colleagues.<\/p>\n
Don’t miss… <\/strong> We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info<\/p>\n The publication reports: \u201cSchofield’s friend stunned his ITV colleagues by, as one put it, ‘declaring his love for Phil in no uncertain terms’.\u201d<\/p>\n Less than two weeks later, Phillip publicly came out as gay in an emotional Instagram post moments before speaking about it in a live This Morning interview.<\/p>\n In the same year, ITV launched an investigation but did not find any evidence of their relationship.<\/p>\n The broadcaster confirmed this in a statement in May, saying: \u201cWhen rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an employee of ITV first began to circulate in early 2020 ITV investigated.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth parties were questioned and both categorically and repeatedly denied the rumours as did Phillip\u2019s then agency YMU.<\/p>\n \u201cIn addition, ITV spoke to a number of people who worked on This Morning and were not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour.\u201d<\/p>\n The statement came after Phillip admitted to lying to people at ITV as well as his family and friends.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.<\/p>\n \u201cIn an effort to protect my ex-colleague I haven\u2019t been truthful about the relationship.<\/p>\n \u201cI am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n
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