Carol McGiffin claims that the Loose Women cast was aware of what was going on with the young runner who was having an affair with Phillip Schofield.
Schofield was a long-time presenter on ITV’s This Morning, but he quit the show last month and resigned from the network a week later after confessing to having a ‘unwise but not illegal’ relationship with a runner on the show.
The duo met when the young guy was 15, but Schofield, 61, claims the romance began when he was 20. He admits lying to his supervisors and colleagues about the nature of their connection.
After Schofield’s confession, ITV stated that they’spoke to a number of people who worked on This Morning and were not given with, and did not locate, any evidence of a connection beyond hearsay and gossip.’
McGiffin, 63, has now been on GB News with Dan Wootton, claiming that it was ‘clear’ something wasn’t right and that ‘everyone knew.’
The young runner switched from This Morning to Loose Women in ‘early 2019’, which is when McGiffin became aware.
‘Gradually as he’d been there for a little bit of time it was quite obvious,’ she recalled.
‘I knew there was something wrong. Everybody knew there was something wrong, and when people around ITV say “Oh, we didn’t know anything about it”, you did. Everybody did. Everybody knew.’
Former This Morning host Eamonn Holmes also talked with Dan on GB News, claiming the teenage runner was ‘in a bad way.’
He added: ‘There’s an incredible duty of care that should go with that young man.’
During her interview, McGiffin alluded to these remarks and described how her colleagues attempted to assist him.
‘As Eamonn said the other night he was a bit troubled. He was quite troubled and some of the other Loose Women I’m pretty sure kind of sensed that, and probably had a little bit of parental power and sensed that he was in a bit of a bad way.
‘They, not coached him, but tried to comfort him and he began to open up to some of them. This was the first time I found this out,’ she added.
McGiffin departed Loose Women earlier this year, citing a ‘unjust’ contract as the cause. According to rumours, she was ‘forced’ to leave the show after discussing Covid conspiracy beliefs.
She has since critiqued the show for being woke: ‘Well put it this way, reading all the comments from the article at the weekend there are a lot of people who think the programme has gone very, very woke.
‘You just don’t have to keep forcing this stuff down peoples’ throats, it’s not just ITV.’
McGiffin also branded Schofield “rude” and demanded that the ITV CEO go following the alleged cover-up of the encounter.
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