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.
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