ITV offers to pay for therapy for This Morning employees to help them deal with fallout from Phillip Schofield scandal
ITV bosses have offered to pay for counselling for This Morning employees to help them deal with the fallout from the Phillip Schofield scandal.
The move — for Holly Willoughby and others — comes after she addressed viewers on Monday over Schofield’s admission of an affair with a young male aide.
Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond hosted for two weeks after Schofield’s exit.
A TV source said: “The executives know they have a duty of care to their employees, especially as the spotlight has been on them during the public scandal.
“They’ve told everyone that counselling is available if they want it.”
Speaking on Monday Holly said: “It feels very strange sitting here without Phil and I imagine you might be feeling a lot like I have shaken, troubled, let down, worried for the well-being of people on all sides of what’s been going on, and full of questions.
“You, me and all of us at This Morning gave our love and support to someone who was not telling the truth, who acted in a way that they themselves felt that they had to resign from ITV and step down from a career that they loved.
“That is a lot to process.
“And it’s equally hard to see the toll that it’s taken on their own mental health. I think what unites us all now is a desire to heal for the health and well-being of everyone.”