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    Phillip Schofield reveals he’s too scared to leave his house over fears he’ll be spat on

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    Former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield is afraid to leave his home (Picture: BBC)

    Phillip Schofield has said he is fearful to step outside his house after confirming he did have an affair with a younger This Morning colleague.

    After claiming that he has ‘lost everything’ after admitting to the ‘unwise but not illegal’ relationship, the presenter, 61, has revealed he is scared he’ll be spat on in the street.

    In a new interview, published on Friday, Schofield shared: ‘I do not know a time I will be able to walk out of the door.

    ‘I don’t have any spirit. My friends tell me, “It will get better”. It won’t. Not now. Not this one.’

    He added to The Sun: ‘I am getting by hour by hour. I have got my girls and my friends.’

    The broadcaster, 61, stepped down from This Morning last month (Picture: ITV)

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    Schofield resigned from ITV last week and in his first interviews since stepping down, he said he was ‘utterly broken and ashamed’ but denied he had ‘groomed’ the man.

    Speaking to the BBC’s Amol Rajan, Schofield revealed the mental toll the backlash was having on his mental health while also praising his daughters Ruby and Molly for keeping watch over him.

    He said: ‘Last week, if my daughters hadn’t been there then I wouldn’t be here. And they’ve guarded me and won’t let me out of their sight, it’s like a weird numbness.

    Phillip Schofield’s tell-all interview: The key points

    Phillip Schofield bared all in interviews with The Sun and BBC amid the fallout of confessing to an affair with a This Morning runner. Here is what he said:

    ‘I did not groom him’

    Schofield insists he is not a groomer, saying that while he met the former colleague while he was a teenager, their interactions were innocent and only became sexual when the runner was around 20/21 years old.

    He said it never felt like an ‘abuse of power’ because they were ‘mates’.

    The affair began in 2017

    He has said that the affair began after a ‘consensual moment’ in his dressing room.

    ‘It was not a love affair, it was not a relationship, we were not boyfriends; we were mates,’ he insisted. ‘It wasn’t feelings (I was getting), it was more like mates: excitement.’

    His wife is ‘very, very angry’

    The affair took place while Schofield was married to wife Stephanie Lowe, with whom he shares two daughters.

    On the moment he told his wife, he said: ‘She got off a plane and I phoned her up and texted saying, “I need to talk to you”. She called back and I told her. She was very, very angry.’

    Schofield still wears his wedding ring, but explained that he and Stephanie are ‘separated’.

    His daughters saved his life

    Schofield confessed to feeling suicidal amid the fallout of his affair and the ‘relentless’ media attention.

    His two daughters – Molly, 29, and Ruby, 27 – have been ‘afraid’ to leave his side and warned him: ‘Don’t you dare do this on our watch.’

    ‘If it hadn’t been for my girls last week, I wouldn’t be here.’

    He has apologised to Holly Willoughby

    After rumours of a fallout between the pair and after Holly Willoughby said she was lied to by Schofield after asking him about his affair, he has apologised to his former co-presenter.

    He said: ‘I’ve lost my best friend. I let her down (Holly). I let that entire show down. I let the viewers down.

    ‘Holly did not know (about the romance). And she was one of the first texts that I sent, to say, “I am so, so sorry that I lied to you”.’

    He will ‘die sorry’ to the runner he had the affair with

    ‘I have massive guilt, and regret. I’ve made a mistake, I’ve had an affair at work. I think my greatest apology must go to him. It has brought the greatest misery into his totally innocent life, his totally innocent family, his totally innocent friends. 

    ‘It has brought the greatest grief to them.’

    The colleague has not been named in the press for his privacy.

    No pay-offs

    Schofield denied allegations that the runner received hush money from ITV, saying the promotion he got wasn’t to ‘move him on’ but because of his own talents.

    He also insisted that the young man did not sign an NDA preventing him from speaking out.

    Comparing age gap backlash to ‘homophobia’

    ‘So yeah, there’s a difference. It’s accepted by Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s not accepted if it’s in the gay world,’ he said of age differences.

    ‘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.’

    Eamonn Holmes is an ‘angry’ man

    After Eamonn Holmes made a series of strong allegations against Schofield, he said the Irish TV presenter is just ‘angry’ he’s not on This Morning anymore.

    He also continuously denied that This Morning is ‘toxic’.

    Doesn’t think he’ll work in TV again

    Schofield said it ‘breaks [my] heart’ to talk about TV in the past tense, but he doesn’t see a way back for him.

    ‘I do not think I will be able to walk down a street ever again. It is like everybody knows.

    ‘I’ve lost everything. It’s all gone,’ he said frankly.

    ‘Telly was my safe space, the one thing I loved. Now I don’t know if I will ever work on telly again.’

    ‘I know that’s a selfish point of view. But you come to a point where you just think, how much are you supposed to take?

    ‘If all of those people that write all that stuff, do they ever think that there’s actually a person at the other end?’

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    The former This Morning presenter says he no longer has any spirit. 

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