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Inside TV's most vicious feud: Exactly why Eamonn Holmes and Phillip Schofield loathe each other and the row over Ruth that started it, reveals KATIE HIND


It's usually women who fall out in showbusiness but Eamonn and Phil's is the bitchiest, most vicious fallout in television.They hate one another, a source who knows both men tells Katie Hind

At the time, rumours had been ­circulating around the show's West London HQ about the animosity between the two broadcasters, who had known one another for three ­decades as their TV careers ran in tandem. And the moment Schofield admitted his affair with the young man, referred to as Person X by ITV chiefs, he unleashed his fury. Friends of Schofield say that he was 'very upset' by the interview and said that it contributed to his already fragile state of mind in the aftermath of him quitting ITV after admitting his affair.

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