Sounds like they’ve released that as a cover story - why would it take them a year to sack them?! MF maybe prefers that to having to say “Phil told me I had to sack them because they were being mean to him”
Some of the itv contracts run for longer than a year.
Like Simon cowell, Ant n dec etc.
If they had one of those longer ones they would have to commit a sackabale offence to be let go before the contract date ended.
Even if they didnt break any clauses in the contract, and they were let go before contract end, they would have to be paid as if they had done every date covered by their contract.
So ITV would have to pay two "wages" for the same job.
Eamonn and Ruth would have to be paid for not turning up to work and their replacements would have to be paid for doing the job.
So - if they did want rid of Eamonn and Ruth back when this gift "incident" happened, this could explain why they are going now and not earlier.
Its probably contract renewal time.
I dont know - but it could be this.
Martin Frizzel is leaving as well isn’t he? So I don’t buy it this story at all.
Maybe he's been sacked too.
Or rather, not had his contract renewed.
Could be.