This Morning editor Martin Frizell is stepping down from the role after 10 years.
Frizell, who is married to presenter Fiona Phillips, joined ITV as the editor of Loose Women in 2014 before taking over at This Morning.
The 65-year-old will leave ITV in spring 2025, the network revealed on Wednesday.
“Next year I'm expecting my family priorities to change so I need to free up time for them,” Frizell said in a statement.
“I love my team at ITV and will miss them and the thrill of live telly but it's an always on, 24 hours a day, seven days a week commitment and I won't be able to do both.”
He continued: “It’s been a privilege to lead truly great presenters and producers. This juggernaut is the toughest test for any broadcast journalist.”
Frizell’s colleagues were reportedly blindsided by the announcement.
"It's a real shock to everyone on the show - he's been working there for so long,” a source told The Sun.
"Nobody saw it coming at all. As far as everyone knows they have nobody lined up to replace him either."
ITV have said Frizell’s replacement will be announced in due course.
Frizell’s departure comes after This Morning host Phillip Schofield’s affair with a much younger male colleague was revealed last summer.
Schofield left the show after admitting to an “unwise, but not illegal” affair while still married to his wife, Stephanie Lowe.
In the wake of his resignation, former This Morning employees criticised the broadcaster’s workplace culture.
In June 2023, Frizell said “scores are being settled” when asked about claims of a toxic work environment at the ITV show.
Speaking to Sky News, he also told reporters to “read between the lines”.
Frizell added: “All I want to say is, I am working with a fantastic team of mainly women, many mums, a lot of them concerned for their jobs, although we’ve told them not to be.
“But this is the 23rd day now of being on the front page and it’s tiring, they worked all through Covid brilliantly, they worked all through this putting a programme out… and I just think they need a bit of respite now.”
This Morning reached more than 20 million viewers in 2024, making it one of the most watched shows on ITVX, and recently celebrated more than one billion views across its social platforms.
