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‘I was in the darkest of places last year’

Around this time last year, Phillip Schofield was battling with the secret that he was gay, despite having been married since 1993, and having two daughters, Molly, 27, and Ruby 24, with wife Stephanie Lowe.

In his new, the 58-year-old TV presenter describes it as being in ‘the darkest of places’, and writes how, over last year’s Christmas and New Year period, he regularly ‘sobbed quietly in the dark’, refused to eat – despite the best efforts of 56-year-old Steph – and was only getting two hours’ sleep a night.

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