Eamonn Holmes showed no mercy for his GB News colleague who complimented Phillip Schofield on air.
Ex-This Morning presenter Eamonn lambasted co-host Isabel Webster after she remarked that Phillip ‘hadn’t done anything illegal’.
Eamonn retorted sharply to Isabel’s comment, saying: “Why is that even relevant? He met the boy when he was 15, so why do you keep on pushing that?”
Isabel was commenting on Phillips prospective TV comeback, 18 months since ITV dismissed him for an inappropriate relationship with a younger This Morning team member.
Eamonn hasn’t shied away from targeting Phillip lately; just last Monday he openly proclaimed during a broadcast that he felt ‘proud’ for being among those who ‘threw [Schofield] under the bus’, reports the Mirror.
Eamonn declared assertively: “I believe he is where he deserves to be,” and continued: “I am one of the people who threw him under the bus, I am very proud to have done it.”
Furthermore, Eamonn said: “This man is addicted to fame. Absolutely addicted to fame.”
His tirade coincided with Phillip’s unforeseen return to televised media.
Phillip revealed only the previous week about his engagement on Channel 5s Cast Away – enduring 10 days isolated on a barren island accompanied solely by several cameras. Upon resigning over a year past, he dismissed suggestions that he was “forced out” from This Morning, voicing contrition for deceiving the station, his workmates, and his wife.
After spending time in solitude on the island of Nosy Ankarea, off Madagascar’s coast, the celebrity expressed feeling “thrown under the bus”. Reflecting on his career beginnings, Phillip shared that at 19, as a booking clerk for the BBC, he cherished his first visits to the Television Centre, which later became the filming location for ITV’s This Morning.
He said: “I loved being there”.
He continued: “When what happened to me happened to me, it screwed up my favourite building in the world, and it pretty well blew away all those happy memories, and suddenly the place became hostile to me, and that was heartbreaking.
“And the people who did it to me, know, they know how important that building was to me. They know that when you throw someone under a bus, you’ve got to have a really bloody good reason to do it. Brand, ambition is not good enough. It’s not a good enough reason to throw someone under a bus.”
While gathered around the campfire, he mused: “I was just thinking there as I was collecting wood. There are only three sh*ts. One of them is a coward who never stepped up in queue-gate. One of them is a coward because they never stepped up when I was being battered by one journalist…. and the other one is just brand-orientated.
“Not what you expect, not what you think you’re going to get. When it all came to a sudden and very abrupt end, questions were asked about our toxic environment in parliament!”
The ex-host continued, acknowledging that there were a few “tricky people” but the toxicity was overstated. Taking advantage of the solitude to vent his frustrations, he expressed: “When you’ve given so much to somewhere and been so loyal, to have absolutely no loyalty shown to you. I know what I did was unwise, not sensible. But is it enough to absolutely destroy someone? Literally destroy them.”
Get the latest celebrity gossip and telly news sent straight to your inbox. Sign up to our daily Showbiz newsletter here.