This Morning presenter Alison Hammond became emotional as she said she “still loves Phillip Schofield” following the revelations about his affair with a younger male colleague.
Hammond was speaking on the ITV morning show when she said had been “finding it really painful” after Schofield spoke publicly about the affair.
She added: “However, what he has done is wrong. He’s admitted it, he’s said sorry.
“As a family we’re really struggling to process everything. I never know what to say, but I remember what my mum said.
“My mum always said, use your bible as your satnav in life. In the bible it says ‘he without sin casts the first stone’.
“I don’t want to say anything bad because obviously I’m in conflict.”
Fellow presenter Dermot O’Leary added: “I think so many of us are (conflicted).”
Hammond now presents the show alongside O’Leary after Schofield stepped down following revelations about his affair with a man who he first met when he was 15.
Schofield says he was not in a relationship with him until the man was 20 years old.