Phillip Schofield watches his £60k car being towed away after scary cras

Former TV presenter Phillip Schofield looked surprisingly chipper despite watching his £60,000 car being towed away after a nasty crash.

The dad-of-two, 63, was seemingly looking on the positive side of life as he stood by a recovery truck after his Jaguar jeep suffered a nasty prang. Pictures show Schofield's pricey motor come off worse for wear after the incident, with the rear tyre and far side door suffering the worst of the damage.

But Schofield, dressed in blue jeans and a salmon polo jumper, was all smiles to the man who came to his rescue and got the car on the back of the rescue truck.

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The former This Morning anchor was over heard joking and laughing with the recovery saying its only a piece of metal and was generally rather pragmatic about the whole incident.

Schofield's car woes come as his old co-workers celebrate This Morning returning to form following a tricky few years for the ITV programme.

Dermot O’Leary, who hosts the show on Fridays, said that This Morning winning best daytime show at the National Television Awards (NTAs) earlier this month was great for members of the team "who have had to endure an awful lot of sh**" in recent years.

The ITV programme had previously enjoyed a 12-year winning streak, winning the category every year from 2011 to 2022, but had not taken home the award since until tonight.

The show was thrown into turmoil after long-term presenter Schofield admitted he had an affair with a young male worker at ITV, and had lied about it to bosses.

He agreed to step down in 2023 after his relationship with co-presenter Holly Willoughby was reported to have come under strain following the scandal. Willoughby then left just a few months later, leaving the daytime programme without permanent hosts.

"There’s a team that have worked on the show since I’ve started who have had to endure an awful lot of sh**," O'Leary said of the NTA win. "And they have turned up to work every day with the greatest grace and professionalism and uncertainly and they’ve never done anything but put their hearts and souls into this job.

"Two and a half hours of live telly every day is quite something, but to endure it under the spotlight of being on the front page of the news. This show holds a mirror up to Britain and it also tries to entertain."

In September last year, Schofield blamed his brother for his departure from ITV, saying he was "fired for someone else’s crime." In the final episode of Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, the 63-year-old revealed he would “never in a million years” decide to return to daytime TV.

Schofield went on to say he had always been “open and honest with everyone at work about what was happening” with his brother Timothy.

His 54-year-old brother was convicted in April 2023 of 11 sexual offences involving a child between October 2016 and October 2019, including two of sexual activity with a child.

On the Channel 5 show he said he refused “to name and refuse to acknowledge” his brother who he claimed he had “absolutely no qualms whatsoever in shopping” to police, who he said had “praised” him for getting “justice done”.

The Oldham-born presenter said: “Even though they knew all of the facts the papers painted me out to be some sort of complicit agent. That was when my world started to collapse. My poor mum, had to tell her about that member of the family. To break that to your mother is tough.

“And I had to go through everything with the hierarchy at ITV. The full entire story so that they knew I hadn’t done anything wrong. The full story. Everything came to a head the day before he was sentenced when my agent called.

“My phone rang and I picked it up, ‘mate, are you somewhere quiet’ which is never a good sign,’I’ve got a bit of a shock, I’m afraid you’ve been let go from This Morning’. What? ‘Yeah that’s it, it’s done. You’re not going back on Monday’.

“What? because of what? ‘Think it’s the publicity, mate’, that’s got nothing to do with me, that has nothing to do with me. Why would I be sacked for something someone else did? I’ve just been fired because of him. Because I was becoming more of a story than the programme.

“It was better for the show, better for the channel. And I agreed to say that I’d resigned because it would be neater for everybody. I was always open and honest with everyone at work about what was happening with my brother. I was fired for the bad publicity, for someone else’s crime.

“And the thing is about a week later, I blew my own wheels off with everything else (his affair), because I thought the only way to even begin to put this right for everybody is to do a full mea culpa.”

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