ITV boss Carolyn McCall will face a grilling from the UK’s influential Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMS) next week over the Phillip Schofield scandal. McCall will appear on Wednesday t…
McCall then wrote to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, Ofcom boss Melanie Dawes and CMS Committee Chair Caroline Dinenage to clarify “inaccuracy in the reporting” of the Schofield saga. Schofield departed the show last week with immediate effect but subsequently issued a statement saying he had had an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a runner on the show during his lengthy tenure, an affair that he lied to colleagues, ITV, his agency YMU and others about over the years.
ITV previously investigated the situation in 2020 following rumors but Schofield and the runner fiercely denied the allegations, according to the public broadcaster last week. The saga has shades of the Jeremy Kyle scandal four years ago, in which a contestant on the now-axed show committed suicide shortly before his episode was due to air. That situation led to an intense period of reckoning for ITV and the wider TV industry and McCall and others had to appear in front of the parliamentary committee on several occasions.
Schofield’s admissions have similarly sparked wider discussions about toxicity on set and former colleagues such as Eamonn Holmes and Dr Ranj Singh have stuck their heads above the parapet this week to criticize
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