
“Good morning. How was your weekend?” These are the words that This Morning host Dermot O’Leary chose to open Monday’s episode (29 May) of the show with, in what many viewers have perceived as a nod to the furore over Phillip Schofield’s split from ITV.
O’Leary and Alison Hammond are co-hosting the flagship morning show on Monday (29 May). The pair have no doubt experienced an intense bank holiday weekend after Schofield confessed on Friday night (26 May) that he’d had an “unwise” but not “illegal” affair with a much younger colleague on the programme.