This Morning host Phillip Schofield rally around the star, revealing his true feelings for Eamonn Holmes and Amanda Holden and what started their fight. Friends of TV host Phillip Schofield have revealed for the first time the star’s bitter fight with Eamonn Holmes.
According to a friend, the presenter believes that Eamonn has a “personal vendetta” against him because he was dropped from the Friday slot on This Morning. They assert that the “consumed with jealousy that Friday rated poorly compared to the rest of the week” is the root cause of Eamonn’s hostility. In 2021, Schofield’s friend claims that this was the primary factor that led the ITV show to fire him. Ratings were all that mattered,” the friend continued.
They added that Schofield had not messaged Eamonn after he was fired from ITV, which upset Eamonn as well. The truth is that Phillip would have liked him to message him, but more important things were going on in his life at the time, and stroking his ego wasn’t one of them,” the friend asserts.
Schofield never had a problem with Eamonn, according to the friend, until he wrote a “scathing” article about him.
“Eamonn stated that he had two faces when Phillip asked him, confused, why he had done it. The friend asserts, “And that was it… his personal vendetta of hatred began.” This included “knowing” that he had “used his personal ITV car account to ferry his lover,” which was completely false and supported by the fact that presenters at ITV do not have personal car accounts.”
Eamonn recently stated that he was “very proud” to have “thrown him under the bus,” before claiming that Schofield was “absolutely addicted to fame.” He has criticized him and co-star Holly Willougby numerous times in the past, calling them both “arrogant liars” during queue-gate in 2022.
Eamonn was quick to respond when Schofield announced his departure from This Morning, stating: Finally, Schofield has been exposed. Schofield’s friend said that while the staff members all liked Eamonn’s wife Ruth, they didn’t care about him. The friend asserts, “He definitely wasn’t as popular.”
In 2019, the friend also revealed the well-known argument that erupted between Schofield and his wife Ruth. Ruth overran during a promo for Loose Women at the end of This Morning, prompting Schofield to cut her off.
Schofield’s behavior was reportedly the subject of a complaint from Eamonn’s estranged wife to ITV at the time. However, Phil’s friend claimed that he was not to blame.
A source stated, As the gallery went completely potty and yelled in Phil’s ear that he had to stop Ruth because she had outrun him, the situation became quite heated. Phil was simply following instructions.
The friend also talked about the well-publicized fight that Schofield and Amanda Holden had because she didn’t get the This Morning job while Holly was in the jungle. During Holly’s absence from hosting I’m a Celebrity in 2018, Amanda had been expected to fill in for Holly on This Morning, but Rochelle Humes, a star of The Saturdays, was chosen instead.
Schofield’s friend said that he was upset about being on Amanda’s “most hated” list and that he had been accused of preventing the appointment. “People always go up for jobs they don’t get but she took a bitter and public revenge,” the friend said.
“All of it was a hideous communication mix-up, not what has been depicted. After their lunch, one ITV boss assured Amanda that she could get the job. However, someone had already contacted Rochelle and cleared her diary.
In previous conversations, Amanda insisted that they would never reconcile. She stated to Jamie Theakston, her Heart breakfast host,: He didn’t respond to my text when I offered to meet him for coffee months ago. What should I say?
After the news of Schofield’s departure from This Morning broke, she appeared to make a number of digs at him, including posting an emoji of a strongman arm to her social media page.
Amanda’s close associate said: This was so long ago, and Amanda has completely changed her life and is enjoying her time on the biggest breakfast show in the country. It’s unfortunate that Phillip is still considering this, but Amanda insists—and was informed that at the time—that it was entirely Phillip’s fault that she was not hired.
Added the source: Phillip is constantly pointing the finger and blaming others for his downfall, talking about everyone else rather than himself.
Last night, a close associate of Eamonn insisted that he and Ruth had always received very high ratings, “to the point where all the newcomers after them were nowhere near,” the source said. Ratings “was not the reason for their exit from the show,” the source added.
On the other hand, was informed by an ITV source that “Alison and Dermot are more popular” and that Monday through Thursday’s ratings were higher.