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Schofield paid his younger lover a six-figure sum with a gagging clause

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.

The star’s former colleague, 34 years his junior, signed a non- disclosure settlement (NDA) in return for the cost, stopping him from speaking concerning the scandal that introduced the presenter’s decades-long TV profession to an ignominious finish final 12 months.

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 lawyer performing for the previous This Morning presenter has now confirmed a deal was signed along with his former lover final 12 months, together with a ‘mutual non-disclosure provision’ and cost to compensate the person for losses suffered.

The man was simply 15 when he met Schofield, who helped him land a coveted job as a runner on This Morning on the age of 19.

Disgraced Phillip Schofield has paid his much younger lover a six-figure sum in a deal that gags him from ever talking about their relationship, The Mail on Sunday can reveal

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 man he had an affair with and former This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby

Schofield with the person he had an affair with and former This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby

Schofield, 61, has been in the wilderness since admitting to the affair and lying to his ITV employers in an extraordinary mea culpa to the Mail last May

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. He later left the channel with a separate payout.

Despite the clause gagging either 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 accustomed to the NDA instructed The Mail on Sunday: ‘The younger man has been fragile for a while. That isn’t any secret. 

‘There was a cost made for numerous issues that adopted Phillip’s choice to talk out about his relationship and as a part of that, an NDA was organized and signed.

‘It implies that Phil is aware of that his younger ex won’t ever be capable to discuss their relationships so he can most likely sleep rather a lot higher at night time now.

‘He has misplaced rather a lot however think about if the total particulars got here out – it could 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 – nevertheless it is not straightforward. 

‘And it’s kind of 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 prime London regulation 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 college.

Schofield admitted the relationship with a younger male colleague (pictured together)

Schofield admitted the connection with a youthful male colleague (pictured collectively)

Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby hug as he comes out as gay 'This Morning' TV show in 2020 before the pandemic

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 two decades ago, in 2004

Phil and Holly pictured on This Morning 20 years in the past, in 2004

Confessing to be ‘totally damaged and ashamed,’ he added: ‘We had been mates, after which in my dressing room sooner or later, one thing occurred, which clearly I’ll remorse for ever, for him and for me – largely him – however that occurred perhaps 4 or 5 occasions over the following 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 large number 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 benefit… as a result of he was excellent at his job’. He added: ‘Everybody liked him. He labored very laborious.’

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 associates 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 way of my lawyer who I additionally misled, a few story which they wished to jot down about me a couple of days in the past. 

‘The very first thing I wish 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 turned 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.