This Morning at the last minute.In a new memoir, he tells how he instead fled to his London flat where he messaged his wife of 27 years, Steph, to tell her: "I couldn’t do the show."Holly Willoughby then presented the ITV programme alone as viewers were told that Phillip had called in sick."I sat alone in the flat, staring at the walls, as This Morning started on the other side of London," he says."It was a very stupid thing to do....
all my closest friends knew how ragged my head was, but no-one except Steph knew why."Another day he had to rush off set halfway through a fashion item on the ITV show to be sick."I now knew that I needed professional help," he says.The star told how he was in an "extremely dark place" and forced to take.