UK Presenter Phillip Schofield Dropped By Long-Term Agency YMU After ‘This Morning’ Exit
26.05.2023 - 17:45
/ deadline.com
In what seems to be a classic Friday afternoon ‘bad news’ dump, under fire UK presenter Phillip Schofield has been ditched by his agency of 35 years, YMU.
Mary Bekhait, the Group CEO of YMU Group, said today: “Honesty and integrity are core values for YMU’s whole business, defining everything we do. Talent management is a relationship based entirely on trust.
She continued: “This week, we have learned important new information about our client PhillipSchofield. These facts contradicted what Phillip had previously told YMU, as well asthe external advisors we had brought in to support him. As a result, on Thursday we agreed to part company with Phillip, with immediate effect.”
Via his lawyers, Schofield issued the following statement in response: “It is with the most profound regret that after 35 years of being faultlessly managed by YMU I have agreed to step down from their representation with immediate effect.”
The agency drop follows Schofield’s exit last week from popular ITV show This Morning, which he had co-hosted for twenty years. That exit followed reports that his relationship with co-host Holly Willoughby had come under strain. Schofield said that he understood ITV had decided that “the current situation [could] not go on”
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