Piers Morgan has come to the defence of Phillip Schofield and urged people to stop this "relentless persecution". It comes after Schofield said he feared being spat on in the street and that he was currently getting by “hour by hour”.
Schofield admitted to a secret affair with a younger male colleague at ITV, but strongly denies accusations of grooming. 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.”
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He added: “I am getting by hour by hour. I have got my girls and my friends.”
Schofield resigned from ITV last week and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to the “unwise but not illegal” relationship.
Now Piers has urged people to stop this, writing on Twitter, Daily Record reports: "Unless Phillip Schofield’s ex-lover contradicts his version of events to @TheSun & BBC, then it’s time to stop this relentless persecution of a guy who’s lost everything and looks right on the edge to me. He doesn’t seem to have committed any crime, and he’s not a Govt minister."
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