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Eamonn Holmes launches fresh attack on This Morning’s Phillip Schofield investigation saying he ‘knows the truth’
EAMONN Holmes has launched a fresh attack on This Morning's amid an investigation about Phillip Schofield saying he "knows the truth".
The TV presenter lashed out after ITV boss Kevin Lygo slammed the former This Morning host in a parliamentary commitee.
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Eamonn said on GB News this morning: “There’s a scene in a Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson shouts ‘you can’t handle the truth’. Well, I know the truth and I know what the truth is.
“I know what I know and they [ITV] don’t seem to know a lot. People take sides on these things whether it’s the Boris business or the Phillip Schofield business. But people can’t handle the truth.”
Eamonn also demand that ITV bosses make public evidence of their initial investigation into Schofield's affair with a younger colleague.
He added: “I’d just like to see the documentary evidence and see what the quiz was and what the questions were.
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"I’m surprised that wasn’t asked for because my understanding of it was both parties were basically asked are you OK, are you OK. Yes? Yes? OK, Both happy? And that was it….”
ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall denied ''turning a blind eye'' to rumours of Phillip's affair.
The chief executive insisted the relationship on This Morning was “repeatedly denied” over the years.
She said: “There was only hearsay and rumour and speculation... Nobody on the board would have turned a blind eye to something as serious as this.”
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Dame Carolyn was called to the Commons to give evidence about the scandal, alongside ITV’s managing director Kevin Lygo and lawyer Kyla Mullins.
During the 90-minute session, Mr Lygo poured scorn on criticisms from former This Morning presenter Eamonn and vehemently denied allegations of a toxic culture on the show.
He said: "It just occured to me the other day a lof of these people, they worked as presenters on ITV for very long time some of them, over ten years.
"There was never any complaint from them whilst they were there, if they wanted anything it was, 'more work please, we love it here can we do more?'
"Presenters of programmes often have a slight feeling of devine right to stay there forever."
He was later contradicted when he said he could not recall a single complaint — only for MP John Nicolson to read out an email confirming Mr Lygo had been told of a bullying claim.
Dame Carolyn was also left red-faced after being told This Morning staffers referred to their audience as “Tower block Traceys” — a phrase she insisted she had never heard.
She told the Culture, Media and Sport Committee she first became aware of a rumour about the relationship in December 2019, having joined ITV two years previous.
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