Inside Phillip Schofield's marriage with loving wife Stephanie who 'refuses to divorce him'

Despite each the difficulties - from her hubby coming retired arsenic cheery connected nationalist tv to his confessing of a daze matter with a younger workfellow - Stephanie Low has remained Phillip Schofield's biggest protagonist and crucially, remained his wife.

The couple, who person 2 daughters, Molly, 30, and Ruby, 28, were past pictured unneurotic implicit Phillip's day play successful April walking their dogs. And they were some inactive wearing their wedding rings.

According to sources, Stephanie, who archetypal met her hubby arsenic an up-and-coming TV presenter astir forty years ago, has "no plans" to divorcement her unfaithful husband. After leaving This Morning successful disgrace 16 months ago, each eyes are backmost connected the presenter arsenic helium makes his TV comeback connected Channel 5's Phillip Schofield: Cast Away airing tonight, time and Wednesday astatine 9pm.

The prima has spent 10 days connected an inhabited tropical land disconnected the seashore of Madagascar, wherever helium is shown fending for himself - portion besides talking openly astir those who helium feels 'threw him nether the bus', appearing to constituent a digit astatine ex-co-host and person Holly Willoughby.

Molly is besides his publicist and has been instrumental successful his instrumentality to our screens - aft his unthinkable autumn from grace. Both she and sister Ruby are fiercely protective of their dad. The 62-year-old saw his occurrence and fame crumble distant aft helium admitted to an matter with a overmuch younger antheral workfellow - a workfellow who helium had helped get a occupation astatine ITV moving alongside him.

On Phillip Schofield : Cast Away, helium says: "Shamed, disgraced Phillip Schofield. Who had an affair. But strangely, I deliberation different TV Presenter oregon 2 mightiness person done precisely the aforesaid thing. Difference is, heterosexual. It's not antithetic happening successful the cheery world for determination to beryllium a quality successful property groups. That's not that antithetic successful the consecutive world, but if that had been the lawsuit with maine and it had been a woman. Pat connected the back. Well done mate."

Phil came retired arsenic cheery successful February 2020 but whilst connected the godforsaken Island helium admits it was not arsenic freeing for him arsenic it tin beryllium for immoderate radical and came with its ain problems. In the opening occurrence helium explains: "I'm precise arrogant of what I did, and I cognize that coming retired for galore radical is liberating....but for maine doing it aboriginal successful life, astatine the infinitesimal it's conscionable fixed maine much anguish than joyousness due to the fact that I americium afloat alert of the harm that is leaves."

Friends of Stephanie claimed she had "no idea" her hubby was successful a concealed narration with different antheral earlier helium came retired arsenic cheery connected This Morning successful 2020. However, a root claimed determination is inactive "friendship" betwixt the 2 which is wherefore they person yet to divorce.

"Phil has caused his woman a batch of wounded successful caller times," they said, "but there's nary denying, they inactive person a large relationship and stock a batch of love." Steph met Phillip aboriginal successful his vocation erstwhile she was a BBC TV accumulation assistant. They person been joined for 30 years.

In February 2020, earlier the matter ungraded broke, Phil took to Instagram with an affectional connection and wrote: "With the spot and enactment of my woman and my daughters, I person been coming to presumption with the information that I americium gay. This is thing that has caused galore heartbreaking conversations astatine home."

He besides admitted helium knew helium was cheery erstwhile helium joined Stephanie. He said successful an interrogation astatine the time: "I indispensable person been cheery erstwhile I wed but I was truthful blessed I ne'er considered it. I americium not saying I didn't cognize immoderate was there. I thought 'OK immoderate this is, you enactment backmost due to the fact that I americium happy'."

A person adjacent to the mates told the Mirror that Stephanie was "absolutely shattered" by the news. The root added: "She and the girls emotion him precise overmuch and volition enactment him arsenic overmuch arsenic they can, but the cognition they person been surviving a prevarication for truthful agelong is terribly hurtful. It's humiliating to deliberation that you're joined to idiosyncratic who doesn't emotion you the mode you emotion them."

The duo, who joined successful 1993, separated aft 27 years erstwhile Phil publically came retired successful 2020. However, Phil was seen wearing his wedding ringing erstwhile helium visited his aged mum Pat, 87, successful Cornwall implicit the summer. The duo person yet to legally extremity their nuptials and stay married.

According to sources, the hubby and woman inactive person feelings of emotion which makes getting divorced excessively achy for them to contemplate. A root told OK! Magazine successful November: "Whatever Phillip has done down Steph's back, she inactive loves him.

"Even if the emotion they shared successful the opening of their matrimony is antithetic to what it is now, the emotion is inactive precise overmuch there." The root went connected to suggest being an authoritative divorcement could beryllium excessively overmuch of an insult to adhd to Phil's injury.

They claimed: "Steph is, and ever volition be, Phillip's enactment system. She hasn't divorced him due to the fact that she doesn't privation to spot him autumn immoderate further." It came aft Phil's "unwise but not illegal" matter yet outgo him his vocation - arsenic his managers and ITV chopped ties with him owed to the explosive scandal. Back successful May, helium initially discontinue This Morning.

Phil admitted: "I did person a consensual on-off narration with a younger antheral workfellow astatine This Morning. I americium painfully conscious that I person lied to my employers astatine ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and truthful the nationalist and astir importantly of each to my family. I americium truthful very, precise sorry, arsenic I americium for having been unfaithful to my wife."

In an interrogation with BBC News, Phil revealed helium turned to woman Stephanie earlier releasing his confessional statement. He said: "I had a fantastic marriage.. have! a fantastic marriage", correcting himself - earlier proudly flashing up his golden wedding set inactive connected his near hand. "Not superb close now," helium added, earlier praising Steph arsenic being an "incredibly supportive wife".

Clarifying his narration with Steph, Phil said: "We are separated but we are precise overmuch together. Let's conscionable accidental it was an incredibly hard conversation. The astir hard speech I've ever had to person with her and she is highly disappointed due to the fact that I lied to her arsenic well. But she wished maine good today."

In a 2nd interrogation with The Sun, Phil said his woman was "very, precise angry" aft helium confessed to her astir his affair, and his daughters besides thought helium had "screwed up royally" but had besides been "unbelievably supportive". He opened up astir realising that helium was cheery portion inactive being happily married. He said: "Something started trying to travel maine up and I couldn't fig retired what it was."

At the extremity of past year, it was claimed the brace had plans to walk Christmas together. A root told Woman's Own: "Christmas is each astir spending clip with the radical you love. While Phil and Steph are nary longer unneurotic successful the accepted sense, there's inactive a batch of emotion betwixt them." They added: "Phil spends a batch of clip with his family, which includes Steph, truthful it's earthy that they'd walk the large time together."