ITV boss launches inquiry into Phillip Schofield's scandalous affair with This Morning lover
msn.comITV tonight launch an external inquiry into Phillip Schofield's relationship with a much younger colleague in an attempt to save embattled This Morning.
In a humiliating climbdown, the channel told its employees, following a crisis staff meeting, that it has begun a review, which will be led by a barrister as the pressure mounts for the bosses to tell what they knew and when about the affair.
In what was the broadcaster's first concession of potential wrongdoing over the scandal, its chief people officer David Osborn wrote to staff to inform them of the move which comes after sources close to the former production assistant say that he was never asked about the relationship by ITV.
It came after This Morning employees were called to a meeting at the show's White City offices by its editor Martin Frizell and head of daytime Emma Gormley.
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