Caroline Flack’s mother criticises ITV over Phillip Schofield departure

Broadcaster treats on-screen talent as ‘commodities’ and ‘learned nothing’ from her daughter’s death, she said

Caroline Flack’s mother has criticised ITV over the way it handled Phillip Schofield’s departure and said it has “learned nothing” from her daughter’s death.

Christine Flack, whose daughter previously hosted ITV’s Love Island, said the broadcaster treated on-screen talent as “commodities” and that Schofield and the young man he had an affair with “should have been looked after”.

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