PHILLIP Schofield has said his late dad would have been proud of him for coming out as gay in his emotional This Morning interview.
The popular telly star, 58, told how he asked his mum Pat, 84, what his father, Brian, would have made of the brave moment. Speaking on Virgin radio host Chris Evans' podcast How to Wow, Phillip said: "That's like a grenade going off in my head. "When I went down to Cornwall when I told my mum, I said, 'What do you think dad would have said?
Would he still be proud?' "Thankfully she said, 'Yes… he'll think you're brave and he will always be proud of you.' So that is good...
My dad was one of the kindest, sweetest, most lovely people ever." Brian died in 2008, aged 72. Phillip previously spoke of his dad's death.
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