Phillip Schofield has been criticized by Chesney Hawkes, who claims the previous TV star performed a cheeky prank on him as an adolescent.
Hawkes, 53, opened up about his earlier years of fame in a current interview, explaining that whereas he noticed nice chart success amongst his friends, it was a unique story.
The One And Solely singer was simply 19 when he starred in Buddy’s Tune, which used his single and shortly despatched it to primary within the UK Singles Chart for 5 consecutive weeks.
Hawkes shared how his fame was obtained by different males within the leisure business, recalling a specific second on the Smash Hits ‘Ballot Winners’ Occasion in 1991 the place Schofield, 62, carried out a skit.
Admitting, “Phillip was one of many first individuals who was very nice to me,” the musician continued, issues between them shortly took a brutal flip.
‘Phillip Schofield…B*****d. I keep in mind him as soon as making a (humorous) sketch at [these] awards in 1991, the place he pushed me into hell with a pitchfork. I do not forget that second after I was only a child, I used to be 19,” he informed the Mirror.
Schofield didn’t push Hawkes himself, however slightly an individual dressed to resemble the musician, right into a “pit of fireplace.”
‘I keep in mind it properly. I seemed [the show] that 12 months at my dad and mom’ home, and so they did one thing horrible the place Phillip pushed me in the direction of the gates of hell with a pitchfork. They’d this man dressed up as me, with a blonde wig with a birthmark. It was horrible.’
Sadly for Hawkes, he stated Schofield wasn’t the one male determine within the business who gave him flack.
He stated Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan additionally took a swipe at him when he dominated the charts in the course of the peak grunge period of the Nineteen Nineties, alongside bands reminiscent of Nirvana.
However not like Schofield, he managed to get again at Morgan when his father noticed the discuss present host on the Ivor Novello Awards the next 12 months and ‘poured a pint of lager on him’.
Years later, Hawkes nonetheless questions the brutality he was subjected to by main leisure figures, saying: “How may this occur? They have been all sufficiently old to know higher.”
‘I believe these moments have been very troublesome. I needed to push it down a bit and screw the lid on and was left considering it was simply water off a duck’s again. I simply thought I would write just a few songs and maintain going, but it surely wasn’t till later that I believed it was the precise sh*t and it isn’t acceptable to do this.”
It comes after the star launched Get A Maintain Of Your self in September, his first tune in additional than 12 years.
The tune was co-written with high producer Jake Gosling, who has beforehand penned hits for the likes of One Path, Ed Sheeran and Girl Gaga, and got here with an X-rated music video impressed by the 2022 hit movie Saltburn.
Chatting with the Every day Mail forward of the discharge, the Right here Comes My Child singer defined his thought course of behind the nude shoot and admitted that it is good to ‘let go’ generally.
‘It is good for all of us to let go and be happy generally – particularly for me in my fifties… I wished to point out a unique aspect of myself… even when it was my bottom.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted representatives for Schofield and Morgan for remark.
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