Cheryl Hole has claimed the current situation with Phillip Schofield is ‘karma’ (Picture: Rex/Getty)
Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK star Cheryl Hole has shared her alleged experience of meeting Phillip Schofield.
Cheryl, real name Luke Underwood, recalled meeting the former This Morning host at the National Television Awards three years ago, but didn’t have a positive experience.
The 29-year-old claims that Phil, 61, didn’t respond well to their smile.
They wrote: ‘I smiled at Phillip Schofield at the NTA’s in 2020 and he looked at all us Drag Race girlies in disgust so I call this karma.’
Fellow Ru Paul’s Drag Race alumni Blu Hydrangea contributed a ‘Oop’ in response.
Cheryl’s tweets come after Phil resigned from This Morning on May 20.
Phil has resigned from This Morning (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Now, nearly a week later, he has issued another statement, confessing to having an affair with a much younger male colleague whilst still married to his wife of 30 years, Stephanie Lowe.
While he said their relationship was ‘unwise but not illegal’, he did add that he had also lied about the relationship to his bosses and colleagues.
Cheryl is not the only one to share their thoughts on Phil in recent weeks.
When attending an event in Birmingham overnight, Kim Woodburn, 81, told Gaydio that she ‘didn’t feel sorry’ for Schofield and thought he’d had the This Morning gig for ‘too long’.
‘Give it to somebody else who is nice and friendly. When somebody is rude and nasty and vicious, which he’s been with me, I can’t feel sorry for him,’ she said.
Kim has her own thoughts on the situation (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
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Carol McGiffin reminisced about a 2010 interview with him on the show, and it doesn’t seem like she had a very good time.
‘He wasn’t very nice to be honest,’ the 63-year-old claimed during a segment on GB News.
‘I was giggling, actually laughing because I couldn’t believe he was being so b****y rude.’
Phillip Schofield statement in full
‘I am making this statement via the Daily Mail to whom I have already apologised personally for misleading, through my lawyer who I also misled, about a story which they wanted to write about me a few days ago.
‘The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others about a relationship that I had with someone working on This Morning. 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.
‘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.
‘I will reflect on my very bad judgment in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it. To protect his privacy, I am not naming this individual and my deepest wish is that both he and his family can now move on with their lives free from further intrusion, and that this statement will enable them to do so.
‘I ask the media now to respect their privacy. They have done nothing wrong, and I ask that their privacy should be respected.’
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