However, SNP MP John Nicolson told Mr Brooke he had spoken to whistleblowers at ITV, and that it "seems like a very unhappy place".
Mr Nicolson described those comments as "surreal and bizarre", adding: "I wouldn't like to be a young staffer going in talking to that editor about bullying given that that's the way he treats the subject matter on camera in public." "But I can reassure you on behalf of ITV that we do take all of these allegations very seriously, precisely because we do have a culture in which people's conduct matters enormously to us," he added.into its handling of the relationship between Schofield and his colleague - who he met at the age of 15 and helped to get into the industry.
"If we find bullying, it's inconsistent with our policy, we'd expect people to report it and we'd expect it to be dealt with appropriately.", Schofield denied there was a toxic environment on This Morning, as well as claims that he had become too powerful or was unpleasant to work with. "I'm not rude on the studio floor, I don't bully people," he said.