Phillip Schofield has denied reports that he may join TalkTV after leaving ITV.
After admitting to an affair with a runner on This Morning last month, the former Dancing On Ice presenter, 61, announced his departure from the channel “with immediate effect.”
He was also dropped by his 35-year agent, YMU, as well as The Prince’s Trust, for whom he was an ambassador, and lost sponsorship arrangements.
After admitting to the ‘unwise but not illegal’ connection, Phillip gave a series of tearful interviews in which he declared that he ‘wouldn’t be here’ without his daughters, Molly and Ruby, and that he didn’t think he’d ever work in television again.
‘I’ve lost everything. It’s all gone,’ he told The Sun frankly.
‘Telly was my safe space, the one thing I loved. Now I don’t know if I will ever work on telly again.’
According to public relations specialist Andy Barr, Phillip might relaunch his on-screen career on TalkTV, which hired Piers Morgan when he left Good Morning Britain.
He told the Daily Star: ‘TalkTV could be the career rebuilding platform that Schofield needs right now.
‘If the current media spotlight reveals no new allegations then this is entirely recoverable for him and TalkTV could be the perfect place for him to start again in a high profile media environment.’
However, Phillip’s lawyer has denied that he will be joining TalkTV.
When asked if the former The Cube presenter may return to our screens with a Talk TV show, they stated, ‘He is not joining Talk TV.’
Following the revelation of the affair, numerous celebrities backed Phillip, who claimed that the coverage of the incident was ‘homophobic.’
Phillip told The Sun that he and his former lover met when the guy was 15 and he was’maybe’ in his mid-50s, but that the romance began when the man started working at ITV and was above the age of 18, and that it had been ‘consensual’.
He said: ‘So yeah, there’s a difference. It’s accepted by Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s not accepted if it’s in the gay world.’
Phillip was alluding to the Titanic actor’s romantic relationships with young ladies, which usually cease when they reach the age of 25.
He continued: ‘Attraction is attraction. It’s no different in the gay world as it is in the heterosexual world or in the lesbian world. There shouldn’t be a difference. This is where homophobia comes in.
‘People are attracted to, or have relationships — wise or unwise — with people of different ages. Yes, I see what it looks like from the outside world. I just want to apologise to everyone.’
Rupert Everett, Sarah Ferguson, and Jeremy Clarkson all agreed with Phillip that the coverage was ‘homophobic.’
In The Sunday Times, the former Top Gear host stated that he had never seen a “witch hunt like it.”
