ITV has been accused of “blacklisting” one of its former panellists after speaking out on the Phillip Schofield scandal, commentator Clare Muldoon has revealed.
Schofield departed from the broadcaster’s hit daytime show This Morning after it emerged that the 62-year-old presenter had lied about an affair with a younger male colleague.
Recently making his return to the small screen with Channel 5, Schofield’s alleged feud with former friend and cohost Holly Willoughby has been reignited, as reports claim that Schofield sent Willoughby a scathing text after his career ended, telling her “you brought me down”.
According to The Mirror, Schofield sent the furious message to Willoughby via WhatsApp just one day before the news of his This Morning departure was confirmed to the public.
Weighing in on the latest revelations surrounding the ITV scandal, commentator Clare Muldoon claimed that she was “blacklisted” by the broadcasting giants for “speaking the truth” about Schofield at the time.
As Eamonn Holmes recalled Muldoon’s former gig on This Morning, she told GB News: “Okay, so we have to address it.”
Detailing her interactions with Schofield, Muldoon claimed: “I’d find him… if I broke a joke before we went on air, he would laugh, and it’d be really funny because I’m quite a funny person.
“And then he would tell the joke. And I was like really? That really annoys me, maybe I should do the joke right. There’s a lot of comedy on that programme.”
Recalling how she felt when the details emerged of Schofield’s affair, Muldoon told Eamonn: “When all of this came out, I had a conversation with you.
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“It was brought up on TikTok, and I’m now blacklisted from This Morning. They won’t have me on because of what I said – I spoke the truth.”
Responding to Muldoon’s claim, Eamonn jibed that the “blacklisting” was “down to the other two”, referring to ITV bosses Martin Frizell and Emma Gormley.
Eamonn claimed: “That’s down to the others, Martin Frizell and Emma Gormley.
“That’s down to them, and that’s a whole other story.”
An external review carried out by Jane Mulcahy KC on behalf of ITV at the time found the channel made “considerable efforts” to find out the truth about an alleged affair between Schofield and a runner in 2019, but was not able to find evidence about the rumours.
Schofield had also “reluctantly declined” to take part in the probe because of “the risk to his health”, the report in December 2023 said.
GB News has approached ITV for comment.
