Schofield maintains that his affair with a younger male colleague was “unwise but not illegal”, and says, during the second episode, that he “made life tough for the people I love the most”.
He appears to have not moved on entirely from his exit from ITV and media in general, saying: “I’ve been chucked under a bus.
“I could drive the same bus over so many people, but I’m not that sort of person, I never have been.”
Schofield does not name anyone specifically apart from his former management agency, who we know to be YMU, who represented him for more than 30 years.
“I was suicidal, like literally one push and I’m done and they sent me what looked like a cut and pasted text like ‘this time we have to let you go’,” he adds.
He also points the finger at three “cowards” he worked with in TV – “one who never stepped up in queuegate”, “one who never stepped up when I was being battered by that one journalist” and “one [who] is just brand-orientated”.
His “queue” comment references the public backlash he faced when he and Willoughby skipped a queue of up to 20 hours to visit Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state.
