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Philip Schofield has resigned from ITV with ‘quick have an effect on’.
The previous This Morning presenter has made an announcement admitting to having an affair with a runner on the present.
This comes after Philip left the ITV present having introduced it with Holly Willoughby, 42, for 20 years amid a rumoured ‘feud’.
Now, the presenter has left the channel altogether and won't be internet hosting the British Cleaning soap Awards subsequent week – as he has achieved since 2006.
He has additionally been dropped by his agent of 35 years.
Philip made the shock announcement as he revealed he had an ‘on-off relationship’ with a youthful man who labored as a showrunner on This Morning.
In an announcement, Philip described the affair – which occurred when he was married to his spouse of 30 years, Stephanie Lowe – as ‘unwise however not unlawful’.
Philip and Stephanie have two daughters collectively; Ruby Lowe, 27, and Molly Lowe, 30.
On his resignation from ITV, in an announcement to the Day by day Mail, he mentioned: ‘I'm painfully aware that I've lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and associates, to my brokers, to the media and due to this fact the general public and most significantly of all to my household.
‘I'm so very, very sorry, as I'm for having been untrue to my spouse.
‘I've due to this fact determined to step down from the British Cleaning soap Awards, my final public dedication, and am resigning from ITV with quick impact expressing my immense gratitude to them for all of the wonderful alternatives that they've given me.
Philip then went on to say he would ‘mirror’ on his ‘very unhealthy judgement’ in getting concerned within the relationship and mendacity about it.
‘To guard his privateness, I'm not naming this particular person and my deepest want is that each he and his household can now transfer on with their lives free from additional intrusion, and that this assertion will allow them to take action,’ added Philip.
‘I ask the media now to respect their privateness. They've achieved nothing unsuitable, and I ask that their privateness needs to be revered.’
Philip started his assertion by saying he had a ‘consensual on-off’ relationship with a ‘youthful male colleague at This Morning’.
‘Opposite to hypothesis,’ he continued, ‘while I met the person when he was a youngster and was requested to assist him to get into tv, it was solely after he began to work on the present that it grew to become greater than only a friendship.
‘That relationship was unwise, however not unlawful. It's now over.’
He additionally added that when he selected to come back out as homosexual he did so ‘completely for my very own wellbeing’ and no one ‘pressured’ him to.
‘Neither I nor anybody else, to my information, has ever issued an injunction, tremendous or in any other case, about my relationship with this colleague, he was by no means moved on or sacked by or due to me,’ he continued.
‘In an effort to guard my ex-colleague I haven’t been truthful in regards to the relationship.
‘However my latest, unrelated, departure from This Morning fuelled hypothesis and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake it is necessary for me to be sincere now.’
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