‘Here’s your P45 now step down’ Eamonn Holmes’ take on Schofield departure

Former This Morning presenter Eamonn Holmes has taken another swipe at ex-ITV colleague Phillip Schofield following the latter announcing he had ‘quit’ the magazine programme after two decades.

“Oh please just stop this. He was sacked. All this nonsense of ‘I’ve decided to step down’. I’m sure you did — ‘here’s your P45 now step down’. Eamonn said on GB News‘ breakfast show earlier today.

Holmes, who has also hosted ITV breakfast show GMTV and BBC One’s Open Air, continued his observations on Phillip’s longest-running co-host Holly Willoughby, “And she says: ‘Oh, the couch will not be the same without him being there’. Well she wanted him not there. So what is she moaning about. They deserve each other I suppose.”

He also hit out at Willoughby, for ‘being as false as Phillip’ adding:

“Holly is being as false as he is and nobody is talking about the elephant in the room…. She says ‘I thank him for all his knowledge, experience and humour’. All the things that she didn’t have when she came to the show. Well it’s true! I would call that stabbing in the back.”

Eamonn then went on to add about both of the faces of This Morning:

“I could give you a list of the lack of kindness and lack of awareness from both of them. How they would socialise, and the people around them. You just have to look at my phone, full of people who are glad to see the back of the two of them.”

While Phillip has said goodbye, and given a 30-second ‘farewell tribute’ on today’s programme, Holly will return to the live weekday show next month, after an extended break. Eamonn hosted This Morning with his wife Ruth Langsford (pictured left) who also occasionally hosted alongside Phillip (pictured right). It has been reported Ruth also fell out with Schofield as had former This Morning presenters Fern Britton and Amanda Holden.