PHILLIP Schofield has presented This Morning for over twenty years, appearing since 2019 in an iconic duo with Holly Willoughby.
The ITV presenter is also the face of Dancing On Ice, The Cube and the British Soap Awards.
Here’s everything we know about Phillip Schofield’s parents.
Schofield’s mum is Pat Schofield, now in her eighties.
Phillip marked Mother’s Day this year with a rare snap of him with his lookalike mum.
In the snap, taken outside the Blackpool Tower, both Phillip and his mum, Pat, 85, beamed as they shot their best smiles toward the camera.
Philip wrote alongside the selfie: “Through thick and thin she’s always there.
“Happy Mother’s Day to my amazing mum.”
And Pat had a hilariously blunt response when Phillip came out as gay in 2020.
The This Morning presenter made a special trip down to Cornwall to visit his mum and tell her the news in person before he told the rest of the world on live TV.
“My mum has been on the phone all morning,” Phillip told Holly during his emotional interview on This Morning on 7 February 2020.
“I went down to see her in Cornwall.
“She said: ‘Oh ok, well I don’t care.'”
Phillip Schofield’s dad was Brian Schofield, who died in May 2008.
Schofield has said his late dad would have been proud of him for coming out as gay in his emotional This Morning interview.
The popular telly star, 58, told how he asked his mum Pat, 84, what his father, Brian, would have made of the brave moment.
Speaking on Virgin radio host Chris Evans‘ podcast How to Wow, Phillip said: “That’s like a grenade going off in my head.
“When I went down to Cornwall when I told my mum, I said, ‘What do you think dad would have said? Would he still be proud?’
“Thankfully she said, ‘Yes… he’ll think you’re brave and he will always be proud of you.‘ So that is good… My dad was one of the kindest, sweetest, most lovely people ever.”
Brian died in 2008, aged 72.
Phillip previously spoke of his dad’s death during an emotional chat with a This Morning Caller.
He said: “My dad died in 2008, he’d been poorly for a long time.
“We knew it was going to happen, but when it finally did happen we heard from the hospital.
“It is this extraordinary physical thing that a person who is near the end of their life who without even knowing maybe, waits until family have left the room and then they go quietly on their own.”
Schofield also revealed how he saved his dad’s life after he suffered a heart attack.
The This Morning presenter – who was 22 at the time of his life-saving intervention – recalled the “traumatic night” when he and his family were living in Auckland, New Zealand in his book, Life’s What You Make It.
What they thought was normal evening soon changed in a second when Brian had a heart attack in his chair – a sight Phil says he “will carry with him for ever”.
The TV star said that his instincts kicked in to perform CPR immediately, although he had never seen it done, as his brother called for an ambulance and his mother ran to the door for help.
Phil continued with his “unorthodox CPR methods” until the paramedics arrived to take over.
After they successfully got him stable and on a stretcher, one of the paramedics handed Phil a small certificate, which he has since lost, that read, “Tonight, Phillip Schofield saved a life”.
Brian, who passed away over two decades later in 2008, thankfully survived his heart attack and spent a number of days in intensive care to recover.
Reflecting on the evening, Phil said had the incident happened in rural Cornwall, where his parents lived, the outcome would have been much different and credits their move to New Zealand for saving his dad’s life.
