What were some of the key points Phillip Schofield spoke about in his BBC interview with Amol Rajan?

Phillip Schofield sat down with the BBC’s Amon Rajan to discuss his affair and the fall out from it

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The BBC’s Amol Rajan sat down with Phillip Schofield to talk to him about ‘his side of the story.’ At the start of the interview, Amol asked him if he was ok to take part in it. Phillip replied by saying that “I have to.”

Amol then said: “Why, why do you want to do this interview?” Phillip then said because “There is an innocent person here who didn’t do anything wrong, who was vulnerable and probably feels like I do.”

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Amol then went on to say that there would be questions that were going to be ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘intrusive’ but made the point that Phillip Schofield had taken this opportunity to tell his side of the story. 

One of the first questions that Amol asked Phillip is when he last spoke to the young person involved. “As I engaged a lawyer for him,” was Phillip’s response. He went on to say that he needed independent support. 

Phillip also said during the interview that “I don’t lord it around TV interviews, everyone is a friend. Most of the messages I have got from people I have worked with are " I can’t believe they are saying this about you, we love working with you.” He went on to say “We are a one level team.”

Towards the end of the interview, Phillip said that “I would say to everyone, I would say to my family, my friends, my work colleagues, the public, to ITV, to my management company, to everyone that I liked to, I am desperately, desperately sorry. But principally I would like to apologise to him because it may have been consensual, it may have been fully legal, but I shouldn’t have allowed it to happen and that was a grave, grave error on my part.”

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The BBC have said that “Following the controversy, Schofield said he doubted he would return to a career in TV. “I have to talk about television in the past tense, which breaks my heart,” he said. “I have lost everything.”

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