Phillip Schofield has issued a statement as he confirmed he has resigned from ITV.
The 61-year-old stepped down from This Morning last weekend as reports an alleged feud with Holly Willoughby reached fever pitch. The broadcaster was scheduled to continue working for ITV and was set to host the British Soap Awards next week.
However, he has now issued a statement to the Daily Mail to announce he has stepped away from the channel permanently. He said: "I have therefore decided to step down from the British Soap Awards, my last public commitment, and am resigning from ITV with immediate effect expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the amazing opportunities that they have given me."
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In the statement, Mr Schofield admitted to having an affair with a runner who worked on ITV's daytime programme and apologised for lying to his colleagues about the relationship.
He said: "I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning. Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship. That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over.
"When I chose to come out I did so entirely for my own wellbeing. Nobody "forced" me out. Neither I nor anyone else, to my knowledge, has ever issued an injunction, super or otherwise, about my relationship with this colleague, he was never moved on or sacked by or because of me.
"In an effort to protect my ex-colleague I haven't been truthful about the relationship. But my recent, unrelated, departure from This Morning fuelled speculation and raised questions which have been impacting him, so for his sake it is important for me to be honest now.
"I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife." .
Our sister site, Mirror Online, have also confirmed Mr Schofield's former talent agency YMU parted ways with the presenter on Thursday.
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