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Miriam Margolyes believed the public reaction to Phillip Schofield’s scandal was “venomous”.
The former This Morning presenter said he is “utterly broken” and feels “embarrassed and ashamed” about his affair with a younger male colleague when news broke back in May.
The 61-year-old resigned from ITV after admitting to an “unwise but not illegal relationship” with a man.
Speaking out in a new interview, Miriam Margolyes, 82, blamed the public’s response on cancel culture.
She told Mail Online she believed the public’s reaction to Phillip’s affair with a younger colleague was “too quick, too venomous, too damaging”.
“I think cancel culture is rubbish. People will probably want to cancel me, but they haven’t so far,” Miriam added to the same publication.
The Doctor Who star also revealed what she could say that would get her cancelled.
“F*ck off!” she remarked. “Or the fat thing.”
Miriam is said to have insisted on referring to herself and anyone similarly sized as “fat”.
In a separate interview with the BBC, Phillip spoke out in June and said that he had “lost everything”.
Following the controversy, the presenter said he doubted he would return to a career in TV. “I have to talk about television in the past tense, which breaks my heart,” he said. “I have lost everything.”
“What am I going to do with my days?” Phillip continued. “I see nothing ahead of me but blackness, and sadness, and regret, and remorse, and guilt. I did something very wrong, and then I lied about it consistently.”
Referring to his former colleague, the 61-year-old said: “He is an innocent party here. I was older, I should have known better. [The affair] was consensual, but it was my fault.”
Phillip has since left ITV altogether after departing This Morning in May.
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