Former presenter lied to get job
•• From TONY VERDON in London Former Television New Zealand presenter Philip Schofield says he only got the job of presenting "Shazam” because he lied about his age and his experience. Interviewed in the Brit- ■ ish “Sunday Times,” Schofield says he told TVNZ he was 22 when he was .only 19, and exaggerated his experience. * At the time his only work for television had been as a bookings clerk i for outside broadcasts, for the 8.8. C. Schofield, now aged 26, is co-presenter of the 8.8.C.’s popular Satur- ’ day-morning children’s programme, “Going Live.” ' Lancashire-born, he emigrated to New Zealand with his family in •1981 but returned to London a few years later to further the television 'career he began in New ? Zealand. He is soon to return on holiday. ‘ “I’ve got a two-month : break coming up and I’m • going back to New Zealand for part of the time,” , he says. “But I know I am 1 going to be bored out of ’ my mind.”
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Press, 13 September 1988, Page 11
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