ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall has described Phillip Schofield’s affair with a junior colleague as “deeply inappropriate” as she appeared before Parliament on Wednesday.Dame McCall is appearing before the government’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee, to answer questions about ITV’s approach to safeguarding and complaint-handling after Schofield left as host of This Morning.The 61-year-old chief executive assured ITV had no knowledge of Schofield’s affair with a younger colleague on the show - named in the hearing only as Person X.
