Pip: I took drugs and lunched with hookers in my kids’ TV days

This Morning host ... Phillip Schofield

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By ANGHARAD LLEWELLYN

SQUEAKY clean Phillip Schofield has admitted he took drugs while he was a kids' telly presenter.

The This Morning host lifted the lid on his secret hell-raising past while being interviewed by show co-host Holly Willoughby.

Pip, 51, who famously fronted children’s favourite Going Live! in the late eighties, also told how he once spent a wild weekend with a pair of prostitutes in Berlin.

Quizzed about his “dark side” for fashion mag The Hunger, he said: “It wasn’t a case of hiding it. I did the same as everybody else.

"I was a lad; we partied a bit, but I didn’t hide anything. It’s just that nobody bothered to look in the right place.

Telly legend ... Philip Schofield

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"You have to remember that doing kids' TV then, you were expected to be the son of Enid Blyton, and that was very difficult.

"Now you can be much more open, and have a proper life. But then, it was almost, 'Oh, you’ve got a girlfriend. What type of girl is she?' But my mates and I very quickly realised: don’t go in to central London and have a wild time.

However, Phil was quick to clarify that while he dabbled in drugs, he never got hooked.

He said: "By the way, when I say partying, my weakness has always been booze. I never got much into drugs, because I wasn’t very good at it.

"We were simply getting leathered in Chiswick where we lived at the time. Everybody knew us and nobody was bothered, and nobody would tell. So I got away with it."

Confession ... Phillip Schofield admits he took drugs to This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby

Talking about one wild incident, Phil revealed that he took a spontaneous trip to Germany and ended up boozing with prostitutes.

"We ended up drinking vodka, eating caviar with a couple of East German hookers."

"We got in the car and we drove through Checkpoint Charlie with these two East German hookers, no questions asked. God knows what the children’s television would have thought!"

Phillip, who joined the BBC when he was 23, now presents four shows on ITV — This Morning, Dancing On Ice, The Cube and All Star Mr & Mrs.

He famously fronted anarchic BBC Saturday morning show Going Live! for six years until 1993.

He has two children with production assistant Stephanie Lowe.