If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again. The scandal surrounding Phillip Schofield shows no sign of going away, with the disgraced star expected to cost ITV millions in lost advertising revenue and a reduced share price. And Schofield is doing his best to deflect and defend by issuing various statements, including one over the weekend in which he admitted to misleading his lawyer and lying to the Daily Mail about a relationship that he had with someone working on This Morning.
Now Schofield has done it again, in blithe defiance of the aphorism that ‘When you’re in a hole, stop digging.’ He has released a statement on his Instagram page (where else?) in which he attacks ‘a handful of people’ with ‘persistently loud voices’ spreading claims of a ‘toxic’ culture at his former ITV programme:
Now I no longer work on This Morning I am free to say this. I hope you have noticed that it’s the same handful of people with a grudge against me or the show who seem to have the loudest voice. This Morning IS the best show to work on, with the best people. In all the years I worked there there was no toxicity. You can listen to those persistently loud voices if you like. But the thousands of guests over the years, thousands of staff and crew, hundreds of presenters and contributors all know it, it IS a family of wonderful, talented, kind, hard, working people.
‘No toxicity’ says the man who had an affair with someone decades younger, then threatened journalists with lawyers and the press regulator for reporting the truth…
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