‘I will forever be sorry’ Phillip Schofield’s interview with the BBC

The lie got too big for both of us. It just got enormous. It was growing and growing and growing and it crossed over from online to mainstream news”

“Holly did not know [about the affair] and she was one of the first texts that I sent, to say: ‘I am so, so sorry that I lied to you.’ She didn’t reply... If anyone is in any way linking Holly to this; that is wholly untrue”

“I just sit on the sofa and stare. I realise by doing that, I’ve blistered both hands...I am not sleeping, I am not eating. There’s a lot of Southern Comfort”

“I am deeply sorry and I apologise to him because I should have known better. I should have acted the way I have always acted. I should not have done it... I will forever be sorry. I will die sorry”

“It is relentless, and it is day after day, after day after day. If you don’t think that that is going to have the most catastrophic effect on someone’s mind... do you want me to die? Because that’s where I am”

“There is an innocent person here who didn’t do anything wrong, who is vulnerable and probably feels like I do... stop with him, ok with me, but stop with him. Leave him alone now