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How Phillip Schofield lied to Martin Frizell while This Morning boss's wife Fiona Phillips battled Alzheimer's: KATIE HIND reveals toxic fallout that devastated friendship - and Schofield's cruel final blow
The two men were once so close that Frizell would 'take all the bullets fired' at Schofield, say This Morning staff. But their friendship collapsed. Frizell was fed up of clearing up Phillip's mess.
Of course, between rumours of inappropriate relationships with staffers and ‘Queuegate’ (when Schofield refused to apologise after he and co-host Holly Willoughby were ushered past mourners to see the late Queen Elizabeth lying in state) there had been much to clear up. There followed Schofield’s complete downfall: his fall-out with his ‘best friend’ Holly about the same thing, his exit from the show, and finally his confession to the Mail that he had conducted an affair with a much younger member of This Morning staff – much to Frizell’s disgust. While show insiders say the arrival in March of Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard to replace Willoughby and Schofield ‘really put a smile on his face’, trying to start afresh while the cloud left by the former presenter's scandal as been ‘stressful’.
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