Phillip Schofield

Phillip Bryan Schofield ( ; born 1 April 1962) is an English television presenter. He rose to prominence as a Children's BBC continuity presenter from 1985 to 1987, and went on to present a wide range of programmes for the BBC and ITV, including Going Live! (1987–93), This Morning (2002–23), Dancing on Ice (2006–14, 2018–23), All Star Mr & Mrs (2008–16), and The Cube (2009–15, 2020–21). As an actor, he played the leading roles in the musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Doctor Dolittle. In 2020, Schofield came out as gay and separated from his wife of 27 years. In May 2023, he admitted to having had an extramarital affair with a male ITV employee more than 30 years his junior and to lying about the relationship to ITV's management, his work colleagues, his lawyers, his agents and others. Amid extensive media coverage, Schofield resigned from ITV and was removed as an ambassador for the Prince's Trust. In subsequent interviews, he said his career was over, that he had "lost everything" and that he felt "utterly broken". Early life Schofield was born on 1 April 1962 in Oldham, but moved to Newquay, Cornwall at the age of eighteen months. He attended Trenance Infant School and Newquay Tretherras School. When he was 15, his first foray into media was a Sunday show on Hospital Radio Plymouth. Despite moving so young, he says he is proud of his Lancashire roots (Oldham being in the county of Lancashire until 1974). After many years of writing letters to the BBC, at 17, Schofield took up the position of bookings clerk and tea boy for BBC Radio at Broadcasting House in London, where he was, at the time, the youngest employee.