Phillip Schofield’s vicious four-word bombshell text to Holly Willoughby revealed

A bitter WhatsApp connection Phillip Schofield sent to Holly Willoughby earlier his vocation downfall has been reportedly revealed.

The Cast Away star, 64, told Holly, 43, she had ‘brought him down’ earlier helium near This Morning aft lying astir having an matter with a younger colleague, it has been claimed.

He besides reportedly said helium ‘couldn’t judge his TV sister would bash this to him.’

Schofield reportedly scolded the Dancing On Ice presenter for not showing him immoderate nationalist enactment to assistance dampen rumours of a rift betwixt the 2 connected them down the scenes connected the ITV show.

‘He feels it was a elemental motion that mightiness person saved his occupation and her refusal to bash truthful efficaciously finished him off. Believing successful the TV chemistry was the bedrock of the This Morning format,’ a person told The Mirror.

Willoughby reportedly refused a nationalist motion connected the proposal of ITV bosses and due to the fact that she ‘didn’t privation to provender the narrative’ that was engulfing This Morning.

The person claimed Schofield complained to 2 elder ITV bosses aft Willoughby’s effect due to the fact that helium was truthful upset.

He is besides said to person felt similar Willoughby and a This Morning brag had staged a ‘very good constructed coup’ earlier his TV vocation disintegrated.

A root told the publication: ‘Phillip considered her a friend, his TV sister arsenic helium called her, and ever backed her, adjacent recommending her to bash the jungle. Her deficiency of nationalist enactment was a debased stroke successful his eyes.’

In different bombshell claim, the person disputed Willoughby had been ‘blindsided’ by Schofield’s brother’s apprehension and had been informed of it a period aft it happened.

On May 19, 2023, his brother Timothy Schofield was sentenced to 12 years successful situation for kid abuse.

‘There is simply a communicative – uncorrected by Holly’s squad – that she was blindsided by quality of his brother’s tribunal lawsuit and was furious with him for keeping her successful the acheronian astir it,’ a person told The Mirror.

‘But that communicative couldn’t beryllium further from the truth.’

However, a root told the MailOnline that Willoughby is annoyed by these claims and insisted determination isn’t a shred of information successful it.

Last week, Schofield returned to tv for the archetypal time in 16 months successful a three-episode bid of Cast Away on Channel 5 which saw him stranded connected a deserted land for 10 days disconnected the seashore of Madagascar.

During the show, Schofield and his family clearly mocked Willoughby, making a excavation astatine her connection erstwhile she returned to This Morning to code her co-host’s exit.

At the clip she went viral for asking viewers ‘are you ok?’, and successful Cast Away Schofield, his woman Stephanie Lowe and their 2 children Molly and Ruby cackled astir the meal array arsenic helium repeated Willoughby’s unfortunate catchphrase: ‘Are you ok?’

Willoughby has kept a dignified soundlessness astir her feelings towards Schofield since his TV comeback, which was branded a ‘car crash’ and was a ratings flop, losing a 3rd of its assemblage betwixt the archetypal and 3rd episode.

The nighttime Cast Away premiered Willoughby shared a photograph of herself supporting her pal Tamzin Outhwaite astatine the EastEnders star’s play Abigail’s Party, subtly letting everyone cognize she had amended things to bash than ticker Schofield.

Schofield returned to X for the archetypal clip since 2021 aft Cast Away aired, penning alongside a representation of him sitting connected a beach: ‘Brief instrumentality to X. I’m truthful arrogant of these shows. Cast Away streaming present connected My5.’

Metro.co.uk has contacted Willoughby and Schofield’s reps arsenic good arsenic ITV for comment.

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