To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video
Eamonn Holmes has really laid into Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby again.
After leaving This Morning and resigning from ITV over his affair with a young colleague, which he lied about to his colleagues and bosses, Schofield gave a bombshell interview with Amol Rajan for BBC, looking visibly shaken.
Schofield admitted he’s ‘lost everything’ but stressed it was ‘one mistake’.
Holmes, who has been one of Schofield’s loudest critics, launched into another attack against both Schofield and Willoughby ahead of her return to This Morning on Monday.
Taking aim at Willoughby, said: ‘You think she’s got a big mouth? She won’t be using it today.’
Holmes then urged ‘anyone watching today who has kissed Phillip Schofield, let us know’.
‘He said in his 40-odd years of broadcasting that he’s made one mistake, he had one kiss that he shouldn’t have had,’ Holmes began.
‘I put it to anyone watching today that if you have kissed Phillip Schofield let us know. Let us see if that figure of one grows to the figure that I believe it is probably at.’
Holmes added: ‘We’re not supposed to criticise him in case he harms himself but he still thinks he can go on and say lies, lies, lies.
‘He’s admitted he is a liar. You should see the emails, the texts and the messages I’ve been sent over the past week. I think he’s getting off very very lucky.
‘Like everybody else he lied to me, I was happy to stand by him until I found out that he was lying… This isn’t about him being gay, not in the slightest.’
Holly Willoughby’s statement in full as she returns to This Morning after Phillip Schofield exit
‘Hi there, good morning. Josie, thank you for being here. Right, deep breath. Firstly, are you ok? I hope so. It feels very strange indeed sitting here without Phil.
‘I imagine that you might have been feeling a lot like I have – shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the wellbeing of people on all sides of what’s been going on and full of questions.
‘You me and all of us at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth, who acted in a way that they themselves felt that they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved. That is a lot to process, and it’s equally hard to see the toll that it’s taken on their own mental health.
‘I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal, for the health and wellbeing of everyone.
‘I hope that we start this new chapter and get back to a place of warmth and magic that this show holds for all of us, we can find strength in each other.
‘From my heart, can I just say thank you for all of your kind messages and thank you for being here this morning. Myself, Josie, Dermot, Alison, Craig and every single person that works on this show will continue to work hard every single day to bring you this show that we love.’
After Jeremy Clarkson defended Schofield against the ‘witch-hunt’, Holmes asked: ‘What does he know?’
Schofield insisted his former lover was 20-years-old when they first had sexual contact in his This Morning dressing room.
Willoughby was tearful as she returned to This Morning on Monday for the first time since her former co-host’s exit.
She said she was ‘shaken, troubled and let down’ by Schofield before clinging onto her co-host Josie Gibson for a hug.
This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV.
Got a story?
If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you.
Source: Read Full Article