Piers Morgan slams 'ruthless' treatment of Phillip Schofield after This Morning departure

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Piers Morgan said he has “sympathy” with Phillip Schofield, who he believed was entitled to a “better send-off” from This Morning.

Phillip, 61, announced over the weekend that he was stepping down from presenting the ITV talk show with “immediate effect” after more than 20 years on the programme.

His departure came amid reports of a rift between Phil and co-presenter Holly Willoughby and after his brother, Timothy Schofield, was sentenced to 12 years in jail after being convicted of child sex offences.

Former ITV broadcaster Piers, who famously stormed off Good Morning Britain in 2021 and then subsequently left the show, has spoken about Phillip's departure from the show. “I think that anyone who thinks that daytime telly is full of smiley, nicey happy clappy people, I think they are beginning to realise it is infested by a pack of savages,” he told co-presenters Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell on Times Radio.