Phillip Schofield has addressed the queuegate scandal after he and Holly Willoughby were accused of skipping the line for the Queen's lying-in-state. Following Schofield’s departure from ITV and This Morning following his affair revelation, the television personality has given two interviews - the BBC and The Sun - about the circumstances surrounding his departure,
He has also addresses the state of his relationship with Willoughby, who is due to return to the ITV show on Monday, June 5. Holly Willoughby and Phil Schofield were condemned for seemingly appearing to skip ahead of the queue to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state last year.
Schofield has addressed the incident in his first interviews since his high profile departure from This Morning and ITV recently. When asked about the state of his friendship with his former co-presenter Willoughby, Schofield addressed the queue-skipping incident.
He said his friendship with his former co-presenter did not break down following their visit to the late Queen’s lying-in-state, but after his brother, Timothy, was jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing a boy.
Speaking of the queue-skipping incident, Schofield told The Sun: “So we are forever now (associated)… it doesn’t matter now because I’m not going to go out any more but, forever now, you go to the butcher’s and someone says, ‘Oh do you want to (skip ahead)?’ ‘No, no, I’ll stand here.’ I’m serious.
“I don’t ever throw anyone under the bus, but I have a very good instinct for these things and I knew it was a bad thing to do.”
He added: “We were texting each other backwards and forwards afterwards. I said to Holly, ‘I knew I should have gone with my gut,’ and she said, ‘I know’. But we were shell-shocked, the both of us, completely shell-shocked by the reaction.
“What are the two things you don’t screw up? The Queen and a queue.”
ITV ’s chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall had said last year that the pair had been “misrepresented” over the issue and stressed they had been attending as members of the media to film a segment for This Morning.
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