Revealed: ITV bosses WERE warned of ‘severe considerations’ about ex-This Morning star Schofield’s younger lover

A senior supervisor on ITV‘s Loose Women despatched an e-mail to the channel’s prime bosses to lift ‘severe considerations’ concerning the welfare of the younger man who had an affair with Phillip Schofield, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

ITV chiefs informed MPs final month that they have been unaware of considerations concerning the manufacturing assistant, who labored with Mr Schofield on This Morning throughout their relationship.

However The Mail on Sunday can disclose that sources on the channel imagine bosses, together with managing director for leisure Kevin Lygo, knew of an e-mail that outlined worries concerning the man’s wellbeing. The e-mail warned that ITV had an obligation of care in direction of him as a susceptible worker. Sources near Mr Lygo say he has ‘no recollection’ of it. No formal investigation was launched.

There was no point out of this correspondence at a Commons choose committee listening to which noticed Mr Lygo and ITV’s chief government Dame Carolyn McCall be questioned concerning the scandal final month.

The e-mail was despatched in early 2020 when rumours have been rife inside ITV that Mr Schofield had been in an on-off relationship with the person – whom the community refers to as Particular person X.

Holly Willoughby with Phil Schofield pictured with the manufacturing assistant on the This Morning couch

By then he had been moved from This Morning to Free Girls, following the top of the connection. He was later paid off by the community after a brief stint there.

The Mail on Sunday also can reveal that plenty of the star panellists on Free Girls made their fears recognized to the present’s executives, who thought it was their obligation to lift these with individuals greater up.

Eamonn Holmes mentioned that he and his spouse Ruth Langsford – an anchor on Free Girls – knew that the person, now in his mid-20s, was ‘fragile’ and ‘in a nasty means’ throughout the early months of 2020 they usually taken care of him.

One supply informed this newspaper: ‘Early 2020 was a really troublesome time for plenty of individuals engaged on Free Girls. They have been deeply saddened to see Particular person X’s psychological well being deteriorate. They might see him battle at work but additionally outdoors of it, too; they witnessed him in some worrying states.

‘His behaviour had turn out to be more and more risky, which now all is smart. On the time varied individuals had heard rumours about his relationship and it was thought that the very fact he wanted assist along with his psychological well being must be escalated to these greater up so he may get some assist.

‘It was then that the senior supervisor determined to place it in writing so there can be a paper path of their considerations.’

Sources on the channel imagine bosses, together with managing director for leisure Kevin Lygo (pictured) knew of an e-mail that outlined worries concerning the man’s wellbeing

Eamonn Holmes mentioned that he and his spouse Ruth Langsford – an anchor on Free Girls – knew that the person, now in his mid-20s, was ‘fragile’ and ‘in a nasty means’ throughout the early months of 2020 they usually taken care of him

Nonetheless, Mr Lygo was left nearly speechless throughout the choose committee listening to when he was questioned by MP John Nicolson over whether or not he had ever been approached by senior administration with considerations about presenters, editors or the tradition at This Morning.

Mr Lygo replied: ‘I do not suppose any that I can recall, truthfully,’ earlier than Mr Nicolson revealed a duplicate of an e-mail purporting to point out that considerations about Mr Schofield’s conduct have been raised in 2021.

The correspondence – allegedly despatched to an ITV workers member by somebody on Mr Lygo’s staff – set out that, at a gathering on October 4, 2021, the workers member ‘referred to considerations concerning the conduct of Phillip Schofield and one other colleague engaged on This Morning’.

The e-mail continued: ‘I am not in a position to share all the small print, however I can discover no proof to recommend that Kevin Lygo didn’t take motion on the allegations that you’ve got raised with him.’

In the meantime, sources at ITV say that these on the prime of the organisation at the moment are privately conceding that barrister Jane Mulcahy KC, who’s conducting the exterior investigation into the Schofield scandal and the poisonous working tradition at This Morning, could discover some proof of incidents that the corporate had profusely denied going down.

An ITV spokesman mentioned: ‘We should not have a document of the emails described,’ including that the community has given the runner ongoing care.