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This Morning reportedly faces the axe if it emerges that show bosses 'covered up' Phillip Schofield's affair with a younger, male ITV colleague.
On Friday, the presenter, 61, quit ITV with immediate effect after admitted to cheating on wife Stephanie with the man, while he admitted deceiving his ITV employees and colleagues about his affair.
Phillip has now resigned from ITV and will not host what was his last remaining TV appointment, the British Soap Awards, and has been dropped by his agents at YMU.
And while Phillip's 40-year career lays in tatters, it is now said that This Morning also faces the chop as senior bosses at the programme come under pressure to reveal what they really knew about Phil's affair with the young runner.
The Sun reports that the jobs of top bosses at the ITV show could be in jeopardy and that 'very senior heads could roll' if it transpired that they kept the presenter's secret unwraps.
Difficult times: This Morning reportedly faces the axe if it emerges that show bosses 'covered up' Phillip Schofield's affair with a younger, male ITV colleague
Uh oh: While Phillip' career lays in tatters, it is now said that This Morning also faces the chop as senior bosses at the programme come under pressure to reveal what they really knew about Phil's affair with the young runner (the This Morning cast in 2022)
A source told the publication: 'This goes right to the top. Very senior heads could roll. If there's any suggestions of a cover-up they could be culpable.
'It's also possible that This Morning could end up getting the axe.'
MailOnline have contacted ITV and This Morning representatives for comment.
Phillip stepped down last weekend after more than 20 years on the airwaves and confirmed the affair in a statement to the Mail on Friday.
He has resigned from ITV and will not host the British Soap Awards and has been dropped by his agents at YMU 'with immediate effect'.
In a groveling statement, the former ITV presenter said: 'I am making this statement via the Daily Mail, to whom I have already apologised personally for misleading, through my lawyer who I also misled, about a story [sic] which they wanted to write about me a few days ago.
'The first thing I want to say is: I am deeply sorry for having lied to them, and to many others about a relationship that I had with someone working on This Morning.
'I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.
Statement: Television presenter Phillip quit the ITV programme last Saturday before he sensationally confessed to the Mail on Friday he'd had an affair with a young male colleague
More trouble? 'This goes right to the top. Very senior heads could roll. If there's any suggestions of a cover-up they could be culpable' (Phillip pictured with This Morning editor Martin Frizell)
'Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than a just a friendship.
'That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over...
'I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife...
'I am resigning from ITV with immediate effect, expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the amazing opportunities that they have given me.
'I will reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it.'
An ITV Spokesperson said on Friday evening: 'We are deeply disappointed by the
