Phillip Schofield leaves ITV’s This Morning

Phillip Schofield says helium has agreed to measurement down from ITV’s This Morning “with contiguous effect”.

The 61-year-old big has worked connected the daytime programme for much than 20 years.

In a connection connected Instagram, helium said "recently, This Morning has go the story".

He wrote: "Throughout my vocation successful TV - including successful the precise hard past fewer days - I person ever done my champion to beryllium honourable and kind.

"I recognize that ITV has decided the existent concern can't spell on, and I privation to bash what I tin to support the amusement that I love.

"So I person agreed to measurement down from This Morning with contiguous effect, successful the anticipation that the amusement tin determination guardant to a agleam future.

"I'd similar to convey everyone who has supported maine - particularly This Morning's astonishing viewers - and I'll spot you each for the Soap Awards adjacent month."

Holly Willoughby volition stay arsenic a presenter connected This Morning, and volition beryllium joined by a "members of the This Morning family", ITV said.

Kevin Lygo, ITV's managing director, media and entertainment, called Mr Schofield "one of the champion broadcasters of his generation" and added "we convey him for his 2 decades worthy of perfectly terrific tv connected the This Morning sofa".