Bookies have tipped Phillip Schofield to participate on this yr’s I am A Movie star Get Me Out of Right here! in a bid to salvage his profession after he admitted mendacity about his relationship with a a lot youthful ITV colleague.
Punters at Aspers bookmakers again Schofield, 61, to look within the jungle providing odds of even cash that the disgraced This Morning presenter will observe within the footsteps of former well being secretary Matt Hancock to attempt to win again public help.
Mr Hancock entered the jungle in an try to enhance the general public’s opinion of him after he infamously broke his personal social distancing pointers through the pandemic when he was caught on digicam having in a clinch with Gina Coladangelo.
A spokesman for Aspers stated: ‘Prospects are leaping on the concept of Schofield going for a no-holds barred rumble within the jungle, most likely tears and all, to attempt to repair his repute. Stranger issues have occurred.’Â
The prediction from the super-casino’s betting store in Stratford, East London, comes as ITV has been plunged into meltdown following a flurry of revelations concerning Schofield’s secret affair.Â
Bookies have tipped Phillip Schofield to participate on this yr’s I am A Movie star Get Me Out of Right here in a bid to salvage his profession that led to scandalÂ
Aspers bookmakers again Schofield, 61, to look within the jungle in a bid to win again public help, following the footsteps of former well being secretary Matt HancockÂ
Immediately former This Morning host Eamonn Holmes, who tonight vows to ‘inform the reality’ on the scandal surrounding the programme, branded Schofield as ‘delusional’ after the under-fire star issued a press release insisting that there had been ‘no toxicity’ behind the scenes of the programme.Â
Because the present returned to screens at present with Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond standing in as hosts, Schofield attacked these stars who claimed there had been a poisonous tradition behind the scenes of the programme.
Breaking his silence for the primary time since he admitted mendacity in regards to the affair, he wrote on Instagram: ‘Now I not work on This Morning I’m free to say this.
‘I hope you might have observed that it is the identical handful of individuals with a grudge in opposition to me or the present who appear to have the loudest voice.
‘This Morning IS the perfect present to work on, with the perfect individuals. In all of the years I labored there there was no toxicity. You may hearken to these persistently loud voices in case you like.
‘However the hundreds of visitors through the years, hundreds of workers and crew, tons of of presenters and contributors all realize it, it IS a household of great, proficient, form, onerous working individuals.’Â
Holmes – who used to current This Morning alongside his spouse Ruth Langford earlier than transferring to GB Information –Â nevertheless, launched a scathing response to the assertion, stated that if Schofield was ‘in search of a battle’ he had ‘picked on the flawed individual.
The 63-year-old Tweeted: ‘Schofield has simply put out a delusional assertion. Like Holly he places it on Insta Tales so if it goes flawed there isn’t a file after 24 hrs. I am reluctant to provide the liar any extra publicity however consider me Pip if u r in search of a battle , u have picked on the flawed individual!’
Immediately, as This Morning returned to screens with stand-in hosts Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond, Schofield attacked those that claimed there had been a poisonous tradition behind the scenes of the programme
Eamonn Holmes, who tonight vows to ‘inform the reality’ on the scandal surrounding the programme, branded Schofield as ‘delusional’ after the under-fire star issued a press release insisting that there had been ‘no toxicity’ on the programmeÂ
Tonight Dan Wootton will interview Holmes in a two hour interview to disclose the ‘actual story’ behind Schofield’s scandal
Tonight in a no-holds-barred interview with GB Information presenter and MailOnline columnist Dan Wootton, Holmes has vowed to inform the reality about ‘the true story’ behind the Phillip Schofield scandal.
The unique interview, that can happen between 9pm and 11pm, will reveal ‘the true story about Phillip Schofield, his younger workers member lover, ITV’s cowl up and poisonous This Morning’, Dan Wootton Tweeted this afternoon. Â
Holmes has been a long-standing critic of Schofield, claiming he had ‘snubbed’ a variety of individuals inside the tv trade.
This included his co-presenter and spouse Ruth Langford, who was minimize off mid-air by Schofield again in 2019 as she was selling what was developing throughout her mini-segment on This Morning.
Schofield stated: ‘Guys, we’ll have to leap in there and cease you I am afraid as a result of we’re a bit tight for time at this finish. Thanks, Ruth.’
A clearly unimpressed Langsford responded: ‘Effectively, I solely had about two extra phrases to say,’ and regarded away from the digicam.
Talking in regards to the incident within the Every day Mail’s Weekend journal in February 2022, Holmes went public in his condemnation for Schofield, saying his spouse is one in every of many individuals within the trade to be ‘snubbed’ by the presenter.
He stated: ‘Phillip is famend for snubbing individuals. He is very passive-aggressive.
‘It is as much as Ruth to say how she felt, however I used to be feeling harm for her. Nobody would have snubbed me like that.’
He added. ‘I do not go for presenters who suppose they’ve a particular privilege or aura or affect.’
ITV is dealing with an ongoing disaster after Schofield admitted in a press release to the Every day Mail on Friday that he had lied to ITV, his attorneys, expertise managers and his co-star Holly Willoughby about his affair together with his a lot youthful colleague.
It has led to an growing variety of requires an unbiased into inquiry to seek out out precisely what ITV’s senior bosses knew about Schofield’s relationship with the younger man and after they discovered.
The broadcaster insists an investigation involving each males did happen as rumours emerged in 2020, nevertheless, sources near Schofield’s former lover declare he was by no means questioned.
Sources instructed the Mail the previous manufacturing assistant insists that ‘he was by no means requested’ in regards to the romance, whereas one other ITV insider stated: ‘Everyone simply knew about it.’
ITV insists it carried out an investigation into Schofield’s affair after rumours started in 2020
Eamonn Holmes, his spouse Ruth Langsford, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield was once the faces of This Morning (pictured in 2020)
One supply stated: ‘It is time for some truths to be instructed now, this has been brushed beneath the carpet for thus lengthy and it has to return to an finish.Â
‘The youthful man has bought to the purpose now the place he will not lie for anybody however truly, he says he was by no means requested by ITV about any relationship.
‘It’s time that folks have been held to account, or on the very least clarify themselves.’
An ITV spokesperson, nevertheless, stood agency and stated ‘each events have been questioned’.
Executives of the programme have continued to return beneath additional stress as Dr Ranj Singh, former resident physician on This Morning, branded the present as having a ‘poisonous’ tradition of bullying and discrimination.
ITV stated it was ‘sorry’ to learn Dr Ranj’s publish and stated ‘an exterior and unbiased advisor’ was employed to hold out a evaluate following his grievance.Â
The spokesperson stated: ‘This exterior evaluate discovered no proof of bullying or discrimination.’
And the programme has misplaced tens of millions of kilos after its essential sponsor Arnold Clark introduced that it will be ending its contract with This Morning in Autumn as deliberate.Â