Dancing On Ice: ITV strains up Stephen Mulhern to co-host with Holly Willoughby and substitute Phillip Schofield

Stephen Mulhern has been lined as much as substitute Phillip Schofield as co-presenter of Dancing On Ice, Sky News understands.

The TV star, identified for internet hosting exhibits together with Catchphrase and Britain’s Got More Talent, would be a part of Holly Willoughby as co-presenter of the favored present.

ITV has not but confirmed the information, saying an announcement can be made “in due course”.

The TV host, 46, beforehand stepped in for Schofield on Dancing On Ice in 2022, after he examined constructive for COVID, and can be identified for showing in Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

Early of their TV careers, Mulhern and Willoughby hosted Saturday morning kids’s present Ministry Of Mayhem collectively, together with co-presenter Michael Underwood.

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Sky News has contacted representatives for the presenter for remark.

In May, Schofield, 61, resigned from ITV and admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a youthful colleague on This Morning, which began when the person was 20. The presenter was subsequently dropped by his expertise company, YMU.

An unbiased overview into ITV’s dealing with of the state of affairs, commissioned by the broadcaster to be undertaken by a barrister, is at present underneath method and is predicted to be accomplished by the tip of September.

During a tradition, media and sport committee session in parliament in June, ITV bosses denied turning “a blind eye” to Schofield’s “deeply inappropriate” affair, saying they’d have taken motion had they been introduced with proof and never “rumours”.