In case anyone was wondering how Phillip Schofield might be feeling after stepping down being sacked as co-host of ‘This Morning’ by ITV, apparently he’s not taking it too well at all.

According to Piers Morgan, Schofield opened up personally to him and admitted he’s ‘heartbroken’ that he didn’t get a proper send-off after 21 years on the job. The fact that he wasn’t able to say goodbye directly to the audience on ‘This Morning’ is said to have greatly upset him, says former Good Morning Britain personality Piers.

Piers wrote in his column for The Sun:

I don’t know the full story behind Phillip Schofield’s downfall, but where I feel personal empathy with him is over the manner of his sacking.

For ITV to not even give him the chance to say a proper goodbye to his large, loyal audience after 21 years struck me as needlessly churlish, and I know he’s utterly heartbroken about it because he told me himself.

Ah yes, of course! Piers was also unceremoniously dumped as an ITV presenter after he said a few mean things about Meghan Markle and refused to take them back. Not that he’s bitter about that, or anything:

But [Schofield] can at least console himself with the fact that he got publicly thanked by his employers.

Taking over from Phil & Holly on Monday, Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary paid a pretty awkward tribute to Schofield:

Dermot then explained that Holly would be back in two weeks’ time on Monday June 5, but without Phil, of course. He’ll probably end up on Strictly Come Dancing or some other BBC show, just as soon as all the noise about his paedophile brother and the Holly Willoughby drama dies down.

There’s also the small matter of what a guest on GB News accused him of the other night. That one could get messy, one way or another…