Phillip Schofield – latest: Holly Willoughby’s This Morning statement torn apart by David Baddiel
ITV presenter’s statement addressing the scandal surrounding her former co-host was ridiculed by some viewers for being ‘dramatic’
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Your support makes all the difference.Comedian David Baddiel has mocked Holly Willoughby’s statement about the Phillip Schofield saga on Twitter.
“When Holly Willoughby said ‘Firstly, are you OK?’ I genuinely thought she was talking to someone behind camera, before realising that of course she was talking to us,” he wrote on Twitter.
MP John Nicholson also mocked Willoughby’s opening statement from Monday’s episode of This Morning during a Culture, Media and Sport Committee taking place in Parliament on Tuesday (6 June).
The latest episode of the ITV daytime show opened with no mention of Schofield, in stark contrast to yesterday’s broadcast, which saw Willoughby give an emotional statement addressing the scandal surrounding her former co-host.
Schofield, 61, gave an interview to the BBC last week, where he described the impact of the media onslaught since he admitted to having a relationship with a much younger This Morning employee while he was still married.
Stars including Piers Morgan, Jeremy Clarkson and Rupert Everett have all questioned the intensity of the backlash against Schofield. Writing in his column over the weekend, former Top Gear star Clarkson said he was “baffled” by the uproar.
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Jodie Marsh has claimed she will “never forgive” former co-hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield after her 2016 interview on This Morning.
March appeared on the show in 2016 to discuss freezing her eggs. However, she claims she claims that Schofield was more interested in other topics, such as her sex life.
The former model branded Schofield’s line of questioning as “vile” as she also accused Willoughby of “breaking the girl code” and not telling her about the lipstick on her teeth during the segment.
In an interview with The Sun, Marsh said: “Everyone thinks I was pissed off about the lipstick thing.
“Yes, it p***ed me off that neither of them told me I had lipstick on my teeth, but it wasn’t actually even that that annoyed me the most.
“What annoyed me the most was I was there to talk about freezing my eggs and having a child on my own, which is a really raw emotional subject, and Phillip turned the interview to sex and my exes.
“He just wanted to be crude and gross and basically just wanted to talk about my exes and my love of sex, and how I’ve admitted in the past I’m addicted to sex.”
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