Phillip Schofield first met the younger ITV colleague he later had an affair with when he was aged 15.
The pair met when Phillip was giving a talk at a theatre school when the TV presenter was in his late 40s, the Mail On Sunday reports. The veteran TV presenter, 61, resigned from the broadcaster on Friday and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to an "unwise, but not illegal" affair with a young male colleague on This Morning.
Lawyers representing Schofield have confirmed they met when the boy was 15, but said the affair began after he started working at ITV, and the man's lawyers have also confirmed that it began after he joined the broadcaster. It said some years later the young man joined the production team on This Morning when Phillip was in his early 50s and their relationship developed from a friendship to an affair.
