GB News star Eamonn Holmes has hit out at Phillip Schofield ahead of his TV comeback, saying he is “very proud” to have “thrown him under the bus”.
The former presenter, 62, has claimed he was betrayed by former colleagues when details of his affair scandal emerged.
Schofield left ITV last year after admitting he had lied about having a consensual relationship with a younger man, who worked on This Morning.
At the time, Eamonn was outspoken in his criticism of his former ITV colleague and sat down for a tell-all interview with GB News, in which he accused ITV of carrying out a “total cover-up” of Schofield’s antics.
Eamonn Holmes furiously hit out at his former ITV colleague
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Speaking today on GB News, Eamonn once again took aim at the former presenter.
“If I am one of the people who threw him under the bus, I am very proud to have done it and protected children”, he said.
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Phillip Schofield left ITV and This Morning back in May BBC“People seem to be forgetting this and they’re making it out to be one situation, one relationship, if you want to believe it, fine.
“But I believe he is where he deserves to be.”
Eamonn’s co-host, Isabel Webster, waded in on the conversation to stress Schofield’s words that the affair was “unwise, but not illegal”.
But a perturbed Eamonn was less than receptive to the statement, questioning why we “keep going back to this”.
Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster discussed Schofield’s return on GB News
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“He fertles with an underage boy, you can make your mind up when it started”, he said.
“This man is addicted to fame. Absolutely addicted to fame. Funny, nobody is going to put Huw Edwards on a desert island and say, ‘Huw, tell us about your experiences’.
“But they will do it to Phillip Schofield.”
Schofield is making his television comeback on Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, where the 62-year-old spends 10 days alone on a small island off the coast of Madagascar.
In the second episode, the presenter said that morning TV has a lot of “amazing” people, before taking aim at “three s****”.
He called two of them cowards – one for not defending him over “queuegate”, and the second for not “stepping up” over another matter, which he did not clarify.
The final person, he said, was “just brand-orientated”.
Along with his then co-host Holly Willoughby, Schofield faced a backlash over claims the pair skipped the queue for the late Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state. They were defended by the chief executive of ITV, Dame Carolyn McCall, who stressed the pair had been attending as members of the media to film a segment for This Morning.