Former ITV presenter Fern Britton claims she was a ‘liability’ before her exit

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The Sun she said: ‘It was all gastric band-gate. It ruffled a few feathers, and I think perhaps I became a bit of a liability to ITV.

I really don’t know.‘But I know that the day I decided to leave – and I’m not going to get into this now – something happened that morning and I thought, ‘I’m done’ and ITV went, ‘thanks very much.

Goodbye.”At the time, many people thought that Fern decided to leave the show because he co-host Phillip Schofield was earning more money than her.However, the 62-year-old has said this is absolutely not the reason for her departure as she shared: ‘It was nothing to do with money.

That got into a story and it was not to do with that.‘I didn’t know what Phillip was earning. But I knew that I was earning plenty for.