Phillip Schofield has expressed his worry of leaving his house and being spat on in public after the exposure of his affair with a youthful male colleague. The presenter resigned from ITV final week and was dropped by his talent company, YMU, after admitting to having an “unwise, however not illegal” relationship with the person he labored with on This Morning. Schofield’s affair occurred whereas he was still married to Stephanie Lowe and earlier than he publicly came out as homosexual. He had previously denied having a relationship with a colleague when questioned by ITV about rumours.
In an interview printed on Friday evening, he advised The Sun: “I do not know a time I will be succesful of walk out of the door. I don’t have any spirit. My friends inform me, ‘It will get better’. It won’t. Not now. Not this one.”
Schofield informed the newspaper he had never beforehand been abused in the street however now fears being shouted at or spat on, saying: “Are they spitting on me as a outcome of I had an affair at work and lied about it? You watch all these layers of you slide away and slide away and slide away – the issues that had been expensive to you. But I deserve it. It’s my fault. I deserve it.”
He added: “I am getting by hour by hour. I even have got my women and my pals.”
The 61-year-old mentioned he had been hounded on Twitter and Instagram because the revelations and has now deleted all apps and silenced notifications, insisting he will never use social media again. “Why would Results , ever return there?”, he informed The Sun..