Phillip Schofield has admitted to previously experimenting with cannabis - but says it made him "sick".

Phillip Schofield

Phillip Schofield

Despite forging a career in children's TV, the 'This Morning' presenter admitted he has not been "squeaky clean" throughout his life, and on the "rare occasions" he has tried marijuana, he didn't feel well or felt as though he had been "darted with a tranquilliser".

According to The Sun newspaper, Phillip writes in his memoir 'Life's What You Make It': "On the rare occasions I’ve tried it, it has either made me sick, or made me feel like I have been darted with a tranquilliser.

"Children’s presenters were expected to be squeaky clean. I couldn’t be bound by those restrictions."

In his new book, Phillip - who announced he is gay live on 'This Morning' in February - also opened up about some of his past romances before he hooked up with wife Steph.

The 58-year-old star recalled feeling as though he was in 1967 movie 'The Graduate' - in which Dustin Hoffman's 21-year-old character Benjamin is seduced by older woman Mrs. Robinson, who was played by Anne Bancroft - when he had a saucy rendezvous with an older woman called Madeline, who taught him "things" when he was just 18 years old.  

He said: "I was seeing an older lady in Swiss Cottage called Madeline who was … fascinating. I felt like I was in The Graduate, an older lady and an 18 year old, and she taught me things."

Phillip also once dated Gloria Hunniford’s daughter Caron Keating, who later went on to marry his friend and manager Russ Lindsay, but she sadly died of cancer in 2004 aged 41.

As a result of being on TV, the presenter was inundated with fan mail from both men and women, one of which even booked them a wedding venue and a honeymoon in New York in an attempt to woo the star.

And Phillip once received a letter from a male fan declaring he was in love with 'The Cube' host and asking him to wear a yellow top on TV on a certain date if he felt the same, or a red one to mean a rejection.

But the star forgot all about the note and ended up donning a yellow outfit.

He said: "I was mortified."

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