ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall denies turning blind eye to Phillip Schofield's affair

ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall today admitted she failed to launch a formal investigation into Phillip Schofield's affair when rumours emerged within the network. Dame Carolyn McCall, managing director of media and entertainment Kevin Lygo and general counsel and company secretary Kyla Mullins give evidence Schofield was axed by ITV after admitting to an 'unwise but not illegal' affair with a younger male colleague Schofield with the younger male colleague and This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby Dame Carolyn told MPs the 'imbalance of power, the imbalance of dynamics' made the relationship between Schofield and Person X 'deeply inappropriate', and ITV would have taken swift action, but no evidence of the relationship appeared during ongoing reviews. Dame Carolyn told MPs the 'imbalance of power, the imbalance of dynamics' made the relationship 'deeply inappropriate', and ITV would have taken action, but no evidence of the relationship appeared during on-going reviews Dame Carolyn is appearing before a parliamentary committee today to face questions over Phillip Schofield's exit from This Morning He said: 'It's quite a few people, who've got a platform now with a show elsewhere or a newspaper column, or just on Twitter, having a big go. Dame Carolyn, chief executive at ITV, arrives at Portcullis House in Westminster ahead of a Culture, Media and Sport Committee in to the work of ITV Kevin Lygo, managing director of media and entertainment at ITV and Kyla Mullins, general counsel and company secretary at ITV, arrive at Portcullis House in Westminster Since the 61-year-old's resignation, This Morning has been plagued with allegations of 'toxicity'.