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14th June 2023
12:24pm BST
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The letter was sent to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, Culture, Media and Sport Committee chair Dame Caroline Dinenage and Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes.
On Wednesday, ITV bosses were faced with questioning in the House of Commons regarding the affair between Phillip and the runner.
Dame Caroline Dineage first questioned Dame Carolyn McCall about the claims that multiple people knew of it, including Piers Morgan and Eamonn Holmes' comments regarding the issue.
Dame Carolyn said that the people who claimed that "everyone knew" about the affairs had only heard the rumours.
She went on to say that if any evidence had been provided, a formal investigation would have been launched due to the imbalance of power making "it deeply inappropriate”.
ITV’s general counsel Kyla Mullins said the young runner had been questioned about the affair 12 times, but denied it repeatedly.
Nobody then came forward with evidence and the conversation surrounding it went on until Phillip left the show.
Dame Carolyn said: “There was a lot of very very horrible stuff out there.”
She added that ITV needed to figure out if it was a rumour or if "we had to worry about”.
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