{"id":337915,"date":"2011-03-25T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/25\/fern-britton-makes-peace-with-former-co-host-phillip-schofield-after-good-luck-text\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:45:07","slug":"fern-britton-makes-peace-with-former-co-host-phillip-schofield-after-good-luck-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/fern-britton-makes-peace-with-former-co-host-phillip-schofield-after-good-luck-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern Britton makes peace with former co-host Phillip Schofield after good luck text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"135.133320048\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 1:45 PM on 25th March 2011<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b00373a4102_233x565.jpg.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"565\" alt=\"Message of support: Fern Britton said she has made peace with former This Morning co-host Phillip Schofield after he sent her a good luck text ahead of her new chat show\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Message of support: Fern Britton said she has made peace with former This Morning co-host Phillip Schofield after he sent her a good luck text ahead of her new chat show\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She left This Morning in July 2009 amid gossip and rumours that she was angry that co-host Phillip Schofield was being paid three times more than her.<\/p>\n<p>Two years on from the furore, she has revealed that just as she is about to begin hosting her own chat show for Channel 4, she received a &#8216;lovely&#8217; text message &#8216;out of the blue&#8217; from her former co-presenter wishing her good luck.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I had a lovely text from Phillip Schofield last night. I can&#8217;t tell you what it said &#8211; it&#8217;s personal &#8211; but it was very nice, very nice indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Sun, she added: &#8216;I wasn&#8217;t expecting it &#8211; it just came out of the blue last night when I<br \/>\nwas on my way home in the car. It was very sweet of him.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fern,<br \/>\n53, left This Morning on her 52nd birthday after reports suggested she<br \/>\nwas furious to discover Schofield\u00a0 was paid \u00a345,000 compared to her<br \/>\n\u00a315,000 for the other show they presented, All Star Mr &#038; Mrs. <\/p>\n<p>In the two years since they parted ways, neither she or Schofield have spoken publicly about each other.<\/p>\n<p>But<br \/>\nshe told the newspaper that she supports him in all he does and is a<br \/>\nbig fan of Dancing On Ice, which Schofield presents with Holly<br \/>\nWilloughby, who replaced Fern on This Morning.<\/p>\n<p>Fern &#8211; who is married to This Morning chef Phil Vickery\u00a0 &#8211; said: &#8216;I watch Dancing On Ice and what he does is brilliant and he knows exactly what he&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My<br \/>\nPhil went out for lunch with him the other day but we haven&#8217;t had a<br \/>\nchance to meet up because he&#8217;s been busy and I&#8217;ve been busy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fern has said before that she never regretted leaving This Morning, but has always been fairly coy about the situation surrounding her departure.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months before she left, live on air she dismissed reports of a rift between her and Scholfield as b****cks&#8217; and said she was just ready for a change.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Weekend magazine last weekend she said: &#8216;\u2018I\u2019d been thinking about leaving This Morning for a couple of years. I\u2019d<br \/>\ndone the show for eight years. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My littlest daughter was fourish, and I<br \/>\nwas missing time with her. My other daughter was going up to secondary<br \/>\nschool. It took me two years to decide it was the right time to go. <\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/114225b7562_468x356.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"356\" alt=\"No hard feelings: Fern, seen here with Schofield on This Morning in March 2009, said she left the show a few months later because the time was right\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No hard feelings: Fern, seen here with Schofield on This Morning in March 2009, said she left the show a few months later because the time was right<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;But then I had to deal with all that stuff \u2013 Phillip and her have had a row, Phillip\u2019s earning more money, she\u2019s p***** off. Phillip and I were both furious because it wasn\u2019t the truth. In the end it becomes pointless to try and explain. It\u2019s just rubbish.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Fern starts her new chat show, simply called Fern, on Channel 4 next Monday, taking over the prime time 5pm slot previously hosted by Paul O&#8217;Grady.<\/p>\n<p>It will run for four weeks and if it proves successful, she will return full-time in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And she told the Sun that she is looking forward to going it alone.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I&#8217;ve been an individual all my life and I only worked with Phillip for six years. The rest of my time I was an individual doing my thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You know what? I&#8217;m not frightened by things any more. I&#8217;m fearless. I don&#8217;t care. If it goes well, it goes well. But if not, I tried.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am nervously excited. I&#8217;m not having dreams about it yet, but I expect Sunday night I will.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Usually I dream that I&#8217;ve arrived late and everybody&#8217;s done it before me and I&#8217;ve let everybody down!&#8217;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cbfc83fa873_468x324.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"324\" alt=\"He's brilliant: Fern said she is a fan of Dancing On Ice and thinks Schofield is doing a great job\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s brilliant: Fern said she is a fan of Dancing On Ice and thinks Schofield is doing a great job<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b00373a4102_233x565.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1369866\/Fern-Britton-makes-peace-host-Phillip-Schofield-good-luck-text.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Fern Britton makes peace with former co-host Phillip Schofield after good luck text\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fern Britton makes peace with former co-host Phillip Schofield after good luck text<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:45 PM on 25th March 2011 Message of support: Fern Britton said she has made peace with former This Morning co-host Phillip Schofield after he sent her a good luck text ahead of her new chat show She left This Morning in July 2009 amid gossip and rumours that she was angry that co-host Phillip Schofield was being paid three times more than her. Two years on from the furore, she has revealed that just as she is about to begin hosting her own chat show for Channel 4, she received a &#8216;lovely&#8217; text message &#8216;out of the blue&#8217; from her former co-presenter wishing her good luck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fern Britton makes peace with former co-host Phillip Schofield after good luck text - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/fern-britton-makes-peace-with-former-co-host-phillip-schofield-after-good-luck-text\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fern Britton makes peace with former co-host Phillip Schofield after good luck text - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:45 PM on 25th March 2011 Message of support: Fern Britton said she has made peace with former This Morning co-host Phillip Schofield after he sent her a good luck text ahead of her new chat show She left This Morning in July 2009 amid gossip and rumours that she was angry that co-host Phillip Schofield was being paid three times more than her. 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