ITV instructs barrister to review facts around Phillip Schofield exit

Chief executive Carolyn McCall says there has been ‘a lot of inaccuracy’ in reporting of This Morning controversy

ITV has instructed a barrister to carry out an external review of the facts after Phillip Schofield’s departure from This Morning.

In a letter seen by the PA news agency, the ITV chief executive, Carolyn McCall, said: “You will have seen the significant media coverage concerning Phillip Schofield. As you would expect we take the matter extremely seriously and have reviewed our own records over the weekend. These show that when rumours of a relationship between Phillip Schofield and an employee of ITV first began to circulate in late 2019/early 2020, ITV investigated.