Phillip Schofield has revealed the last ever message he sent to former best friend and This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby. The famous friendship has been completely shattered following Mr Schofield's scandal, where he admitted to having an affair with a much younger colleague while working on the show.
Speaking in two interviews, he said he texted Holly when the scandal broke out but did not get a reply. “The last time we had a conversation was when I texted Holly and said, ‘Don’t reply’ – this was after the statement last week – ‘Don’t reply, you’re probably not allowed to, but I am deeply deeply sorry that I lied to you,
"And I am. It was the one secret in our sanctuary that was never mentioned,” he told The Sun. He said he feared being spat on in the street and that he was currently getting by “hour by hour”.
The former This Morning presenter, 61, previously said he had “lost everything” after admitting to the affair, and that the fallout had had a “catastrophic effect” on his mind. In a new interview, published on Friday, he told The Sun: “I do not know a time I will be able to walk out of the door.
“I don’t have any spirit. My friends tell me, ‘It will get better’. It won’t. Not now. Not this one.” He added: “I am getting by hour by hour. I have got my girls and my friends.”
Mr Schofield resigned from ITV last week and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to the “unwise but not illegal” relationship, The Mirror reports. In his first interviews since leaving the broadcaster and This Morning, he said he was “utterly broken and ashamed” but denied he had “groomed” the man.
Speaking to the BBC’s Amol Rajan, Schofield praised his daughters Ruby and Molly for “guarding him”. He said: “Last week, if my daughters hadn’t been there then I wouldn’t be here.
"And they’ve guarded me and won’t let me out of their sight, it’s like a weird numbness. I know that’s a selfish point of view. But you come to a point where you just think, how much are you supposed to take?
“If all of those people that write all that stuff, do they ever think that there’s actually a person at the other end?”
