Queuegate and a deadly transition: what’s gone wrong for Phil and Holly?

Schofield and Willoughby were friends, but now their travails are analysed with body language experts and mocked at PMQs

The newspaper reporters and TV cameras were out in force waiting for Schofield. Not on the edges of a red carpet for Phil, the evergreen silver-haired co-host of ITV’s This Morning, but his brother Timothy, 54, arriving at Bristol crown court to be sentenced to 12 years in jail for for sexually abusing a teenage boy.

From the TV star, there was nothing additional in response. The 61-year-old, whose near 40-year career in British television had won him almost national treasure status until recently, had taken his usual Friday off from hosting with his “sofa wife” Holly Willoughby.