Phillip Schofield was in such turmoil as he wrestled with his sexuality that he once dramatically refused to go on This Morning at the last minute.
In his incredible new memoir, the star tells how he instead fled to his London flat where he messaged Steph, his wife of 27 years, to tell her: “I couldn’t do the show.” Instead co-host Holly Willoughby presented the ITV programme alone as viewers were told that Phillip had called in sick.
Philip says: “I sat alone in the flat, staring at the walls, as This Morning started on the other side of London. “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.” On another day he had to rush off set half way through a fashion item on