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Melanie McDonagh

OPINION - ITV's relationship rules after the Phillip Schofield scandal? Not even Catholic confession is so demanding

Why, you ask yourself, would anyone want to work for ITV? The company has finally responded to criticism about its blind-eye policy to Phillip Schofield’s relationship with a much younger employee by getting all totalitarian.

It is to oblige its employees to disclose their relationships with other members of staff, not just familial, marital or quasi-marital, but “anyone involved in a sexual, romantic or close relationship or friendship (whether short or longer term)”. It includes relationships that started prior to employment at ITV.

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