EX PAL AL LAYS INTO SCHOFIELD
Carr’s catty joke on Phil
COMIC Alan Carr turned from Chatty Man to Catty Man by taking a swipe at disgraced TV host Phillip Schofield.
While recording a Christmas special, Carr laid into his ex-pal, who quit This Morning after admitting an extramarital affair with a young show runner and lying about it to ITV bosses.
Carr asked the audience before cameras rolled: “Oh, Hackney, why did I say I’d film this in the middle of a f***ing heatwave?”
He then said: “I am sweating up here like Phillip Schofield’s lawyer, honestly.”
The funnyman, 47, whose TV show Alan Carr: Chatty Man ran for seven years, then removed all references to Schofield from filming for the Channel 4 special last Sunday.
Last year, Carr affectionately referenced him at every gig on his Regional Trinket tour. They have been pals since 2015, after Schofield made Carr host a tequila challenge on This Morning. Carr was so drunk he forgot the name of his own show.
And the tequila was out again when Schofield appeared on Chatty Man three years later.
The morning after, Carr was so hungover that he fell into Hyde Park’s Serpentine Lake while walking his dogs.
Shamed Schofield, 61, stepped down from presenting the daytime show in May after 21 years on the sofa.
He had cheated on wife Stephanie with a young colleague and called the relationship “unwise, but not illegal”.
Carr has also had his problems and has told how he had been drowning his sorrows with rosé wine following his break-up from ex-husband Paul Drayton.
They split after 13 years due to Paul’s alcohol problems.
Carr said: “I’ve had a s*** year and I have drank a lot of rosé in the last 12 months.”
He added: “I’ve had a few weekends having rosé after rosé. You are so t***ted watching 12 episodes of Homes Under the Hammer you leave the heating on all night.”