Phillip Schofield has announced that his mother, Pat, has died aged 88.
Taking to his Instagram Story tonight, the former This Morning presenter, 62, wrote: ‘Today, at 3pm and after a heartbreaking weekend, my magnificent mum decided it was time to go to her beloved Brian.
‘Over three days, we held her, loved her, hugged her, and said everything that needed to be said.
‘She was calm, peaceful, beautiful and dignified.
‘I will forever be proud and privileged that she was my mum.
‘Our eternal thanks to the paramedics, Treliske A&E and Critical Care team who have been, in the past and this weekend, my mum’s and our angels. Your love and care has been our saviour.’
‘I love you mum, forever,’ he signed off.
Schofield proceeded to share a series of personal photos of his late mother, including from the time she did a wing walk at the age of 80 and other various snaps from her travels.
‘God I loved her for wanting to do this,’ he wrote alongside a clip of the exhilarating activity.
‘One of the oldest ever ladies to wing walk.’
The montage also included a snap of her in front of a sunset and enjoying a show at the Royal Albert Hall.
His final post included the words ‘together forever’ alongside an old shot of Pat with her late husband, Brian.
Schofield’s father died in 2008 from a long-standing heart condition. The star has frequently spoken about the close bond he shared with him.
Opening up on the This Morning sofa about his father’s death, Schofield previously reflected: ‘My dad died in 2008, he’d been poorly for a long time. We knew it was going to happen, but when it finally did happen we heard from the hospital.’
On his time of death, he added: ‘It is this extraordinary physical thing that a person who is near the end of their life who without even knowing maybe, waits until family have left the room and then they go quietly on their own.’
Following his exit from ITV last year, Schofield stayed with his mother at her Cornwall home as he kept a low profile and avoided media attention.
She was also a mother to his younger brother, Timothy, 54, who is currently spending 12 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy.
Speaking on television recently, Schofield claimed he was ‘fired for someone else’s crimes’ as he referenced his now non-existent relationship with his sibling.
Pat’s death comes after her hospitalisation last year when she fell seriously ill.
Last June, after admitting to an affair with a much younger male runner, which prompted his departure from showbiz, Schofield cared for his mother and held a vigil by her bedside.
In the past, Schofield revealed that his mother and brother, who was convicted in May, were both diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes within six months of each other.
Speaking to Health Awareness, he said: ‘My brother and mother are both Type 1 diabetics and have been for the last 25 years, so it is something that as a family we are very used to.
‘If either of them has a hypo (a Hypoglycaemic episode which occurs when blood glucose levels drop, usually below 4 mmol/L), we can recognise the signs and we know what to do. My Mum goes particularly bonkers when she goes low, so when she starts talking nonsense we know what’s happening.’
He added: ‘My brother was first to be diagnosed, and he had an unquenchable thirst for fizzy drinks, which was very unlike him. That continued for a few days, he was acting completely out of character. So we took him to the doctors, and he was very quickly diagnosed. Then six months later, my mum was diagnosed in the same way.’
Schofield said his brother’s diagnosis was ‘a shock’ as he ‘had always been very healthy and active’ and there was ‘no history of the disorder in the family’.
Most recently, the ex-Dancing On Ice host made a divisive comeback to screens as he starred in the Channel 5 programme Cast Away.
In the show, Schofield spent 10 days alone on a small island off the coast of Madagascar in his first television appearance in over 12 months.
During the three-parte, he discussed leaving ITV in May 2023 after lying about his ‘unwise but not illegal’ affair, which happened before he came out as gay and while married to wife Stephanie Lowe, as well as his strained relationships with former colleagues.
Schofield also said he has no plans to return to presenting anytime soon.
‘Now, I’m not saying I’m done but, you know, never in a million years will I go back to daytime telly. I’ve lived a hundred TV lives,’ he told the cameras.
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