Even Google’s search engine had Phillip Schofield’s number – so why didn’t ITV?
The IndependentBefore the Culture and Media Sport select committee could begin two hours of staring down ITV’s big bosses and demanding that they must have known about Phillip Schofield because absolutely everybody knew about Phillip Schofield, they had to go through the formalities and declare if any of them had any conflict of interest to declare. The central question in the Phillip Schofield scandal hasn’t changed, nor moved on so much as a single centimetre, in the weeks if not months that no one has seemed to talk about anything else. open image in gallery Dame Carolyn McCall DBE, chief executive, ITV, Kevin Lygo, managing director, media and entertainment, ITV and Kyla Mullins, general counsel and company secretary, ITV, giving evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee We would hear all about ITV’s duty of care policies for staff, about Dame Carolyn’s bi-weekly “vodcast”, about how anyone at ITV can just drop an email over to the “Ask Carolyn” email account, so how can there possibly be any problems? “We think he was asked the question 12 times and at each stage he categorically denied it,” said the lawyer, Kyla Mullins, who has evidently been asked to go through the relevant files and come back with an answer about how many times Phillip Schofield had been asked about whether or not these repeatedly alleged allegations were true, and found that the answer is at least 12, and that that’s probably therefore fine.