Schofield scandal ‘cataclysmic’ if all particulars got here out, supply claims
The fallout from Phillip Schofield‘s affair with a youthful lover could be ‘cataclysmic’ to the shamed TV star if the total particulars got here out, a supply has claimed.
The former This Morning host, who stop the present in shame after his liaisons with a male colleague 34 years his junior grew to become public information, has been within the wilderness since admitting to the affair and mendacity to his ITV employers final May.
It has now been revealed that the 61-year-old paid his former lover a six-figure sum in return for signing a non-disclosure settlement (NDA) which implies the youthful man is prevented from ever speaking about their relationship.
A lawyer appearing for Schofield confirmed a deal was signed with final 12 months which included a ‘mutual non-disclosure provision’ and cost to compensate the person for losses suffered.
While the father-of-two has barely been seen on TV for the reason that scandal, a supply acquainted with the NDA has instructed the Mail on Sunday the total particulars of the affair might deliver additional ache for him ought to they ever be revealed.
Disgraced Phillip Schofield has paid his a lot youthful lover a six-figure sum in a deal that gags him from ever speaking about their relationship, The Mail on Sunday can reveal
Schofield with the person he had an affair with and former This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby
Schofield, 61, has been within the wilderness since admitting to the affair and mendacity to his ITV employers in a rare mea culpa to the Mail final May
A romantic relationship between the pair started when the person was 20, after which he moved to a different ITV daytime present, Loose Women
Schofield admitted to his relationship with the person, who was simply 15 when he met the presenter for the primary time and who he helped landed a coveted job as a runner on This Morning on the age of 19, in an extraordinary mea culpa to the Mail final May.
A romantic relationship between the pair started when the person was 20, after which he moved to a different ITV daytime present, Loose Women. He later left the channel with a separate payout.
Despite the clause gagging each side from speaking concerning the affair, Schofield revealed intimate particulars of their relationship when he was interviewed by the BBC’s Amol Rajan final June.
A supply acquainted with the NDA instructed The Mail on Sunday: ‘The younger man has been fragile for a while. That is not any secret.
‘There was a cost made for varied issues that adopted Phillip’s resolution to talk out about his relationship and as a part of that, an NDA was organized and signed.
‘It signifies that Phil is aware of that his younger ex won’t ever be capable of discuss their relationships so he can in all probability sleep rather a lot higher at evening now.
‘He has misplaced rather a lot however think about if the total particulars got here out – it will be fairly cataclysmic for him.
‘As for the younger man, let’s hope that he can transfer on along with his life now and rebuild it – but it surely is not simple.
‘And it is a bit wealthy to current an NDA after Phil had his say with the BBC final 12 months.’
The man – referred to solely as Person X by ITV throughout its investigation – was represented by high London legislation agency Mishcon de Reya within the negotiations surrounding the NDA.
In the BBC interview, Schofield insisted he had not groomed the younger man after assembly him at a stage faculty.
Phllip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on the tv present, ‘Dancing On Ice’ in February 2023
Schofield admitted the connection with a youthful male colleague (pictured collectively)
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby hug as he comes out as homosexual ‘This Morning’ TV present in 2020 earlier than the pandemic
Phil and Holly pictured on This Morning twenty years in the past, in 2004
Confessing to be ‘completely damaged and ashamed,’ he added: ‘We have been mates, after which in my dressing room in the future, one thing occurred, which clearly I’ll remorse for ever, for him and for me – largely him – however that occurred possibly 4 or 5 occasions over the subsequent few months.
‘I do know it is unforgivable. But we weren’t boyfriends. We weren’t in a relationship. I used to be actually in a multitude with my very own sexuality on the time, and it simply occurred.’
Schofield additionally stated the person landed his This Morning function ‘on his personal advantage… as a result of he was excellent at his job’. He added: ‘Everybody beloved him. He labored very onerous.’
The former Dancing On Ice host took half within the interview after he confessed to the affair he carried out behind his spouse Stephanie Lowe’s again.
In his bombshell assertion to the Daily Mail, Schofield described the connection as ‘unwise however not unlawful’ as he confessed to mendacity to his colleagues, his pals and his brokers on the administration agency YMU.
In the assertion, he stated: ‘I’m making this assertion through the Daily Mail, to whom I’ve already apologised personally for deceptive, by my lawyer who I additionally misled, a few story which they wished to write down about me a number of days in the past.
‘The very first thing I need to say is: I’m deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others a few relationship that I had with somebody engaged on This Morning.
‘I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a youthful male colleague at This Morning.
‘Contrary to hypothesis, while I met the person when he was an adolescent 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 a only a friendship.
‘That relationship was unwise, however not unlawful. It is now over.’
The younger man, now 27, declined to touch upon the deal or any of the small print inside it.
