Phillip Schofield's admission of an "unwise, but not not illegal" affair with a younger ITV colleague left the TV world shocked last week.
And it has now been claimed that his former lover's dreams of a TV career were ruined after the affair.
Friends of the much younger man, who started a relationship with Schofield when he was a teenager, say he was ‘determined to be famous’ and on track for a promising career.