Jeremy Clarkson has defended Phillip Schofield.
Jeremy Clarkson defends Schofe
The 61-year-old star stepped down from his role as host on 'This Morning' last week in the months after he and Holly Willoughby had been accused of jumping the queue to visit Queen Elizabeth lying in state and shortly after quitting admitted that he had had an "unwise but not illegal" extramarital affair with a much younger male colleague and now former 'Top Gear' host Jeremy, 63, has blasted the whole scandal as a "witch-hunt."
Writing in his Sunday Times column, he said: "Phil is no longer the genial host of some morning-time televisual cappuccino froth. According to the people's court of social media, he's like his brother, a nonce. Actually, he's worse than that: he's a queue-jumping nonce. And we don't want to see his disgusting face ever again.
"I’ve never seen a witch-hunt like it, and what baffles me most of all is that, as things stand, no crime has been committed. I don’t know him at all well and have no skin in the game, but it seems to me he is only guilty of being what he said he was: gay."
Phils fellow former 'This Morning' host Eamonn Holmes' claimed that when Phillip came out as gay on the ITV sofa in February 2020, the whole exercise had been a "cover up" for the affair but the 'Clarkson's Farm' star "seriously doubts" that was the case because CEO Dame Carolyn McCall has "got more to worry about" at the broadcasting network.
He said: "I seriously doubt that. [Carolyn McCall] has got the share price to worry about, and the launch of the new ITVX service, and she's also engaged in an apparent one-woman quest to rid the screen of all middle-aged men: Morgan, Kyle, etc."
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