Loose Women star Kerry Katona breaks silence on Phillip Schofield after affair with younger lover revealed
LOOSE Women star Kerry Katona has broken her silence on shamed Phillip Schofield.
The OnlyFans star, 42, blasted the former This Morning presenter as a “belittling” interviewer in a ferocious takedown.
And she said Phil – kicked off This Morning last week for lying about an affair with a much younger runner – had the “audacity” to ridicule her while she was taking bi-polar medication.
Kerry says she was left suicidal after Phil accused her of “slurring” her words during an infamous appearance on This Morning in 2008.
In the interview, Phil asks Kerry: “Your speech is a bit slurred, how are you feeling right now? Our phone is already going off up in the gallery from people asking is she ok.
“We are merely pointing out someone who is very different from a few years ago.”
Reflecting on the interview, she told GB News on Wednesday: “I don’t think people understand what that interview did to me emotionally.
“Even now, when I go back to ITV – which isn’t very often – there is a sense of snobbery. I feel like I have to impress them, I can’t slur.”
Kerry insisted she was not speaking out to shout “karma” at Phil, but more to blast the “aftercare of ITV” which she said did not exist.
Discussing Phil’s affiar, Kerry said: “I didn’t know [about the affair]. There were always rumours. I know his wife, my heart goes out to her. I met the young runner several times, lovely lad.”
Phil’s affair revelations saw This Morning catapulted into chaos – with Holly Willoughby’s future on This Morning now in doubt.
It comes as The Sun revealed the 61-year-old and his young lover used a £1million flat next to ITV’s studios for “playtime”.
The loved-up pair would vanish “for hours” into the exclusive Helios Hotel adjacent to the White City studios in West London, a source said.
They added: “Phil and the runner were often seen leaving at around 3pm, two hours after filming on This Morning had ended.
“They would use the entrance through the hotel and stay for an hour or two. Phillip’s driver was always waiting for him outside.
“I asked one of the security guards why the driver was still here and he replied, ‘Well Phillip and that young runner are up in the apartment’.”
It was also alleged today that ITV “paid” for a show reel by Phillip Schofield’s lover – where he interviews his lover and tours the This Morning studio.
In the video the younger runner sits down with Phil on a sofa and asks what “we’ll both be doing’ in three years time”.
Phil, 61, quips: “Well, if I’m still getting away with it, I’ll be a happy man.”
In other segment the young man, now in his mid 20s, points to pictures of Phil and delivers a tongue-in-cheek line about “spotted dick” pudding.
But the Daily Mail report sources as saying the whole showreel – shot in 2015 – was “made and paid for by ITV”.
A senior ITV source said: “How many runners get access to the cameras, studio and main presenter? I’ll tell you how many: none.”
Meanwhile it was claimed Phil’s toyboy “received a financial settlement” after their affair ended.
The young runner was then moved to another ITV show by bosses at the now crisis-engulfed corporation.