Axed This Morning star Philip Schofield is pictured embracing his mother, 87, on a bench in Cornwall

Photos have come to light showing axed This Morning star Phillip Schofield embracing his elderly mother after he was sacked from the show.

The 61-year-old was seen hugging his mother Pat, 87, on a bench overlooking the sea in Newquay, Cornwall, last month. 

Pictures show the TV host revealing he had lost his job after admitting he had an affair with a younger male colleague who worked behind the scenes on the popular ITV programme.

Phillip and his mother had driven from her home to their favourite fish and chip shop on Friday, May 19, before heading out to Pentire Headland where they looked out over the sea, The Sun reports.

The presenter, who had hosted This Morning since 2002, had been in the seaside town to support his mother as his brother, Timothy, was being sentenced for sex offences against a teenage boy.

The TV presenter, who admitted to having an affair with a younger male colleague who worked behind the scenes on the show, was seen hugging his mother on Pentire Headland on May 19

Phillip, pictured here on This Morning with former co-host Holly Willoughby, had presented the programme since 2002

The same day her youngest son was jailed for 12 years, Pat was told by her eldest child that he had lost his job. 

While getting fish and chips with his mother, Phillip received a phone call from his manager telling him bosses at the channel wanted him to leave the show.

In an interview with the Sun last week, he said: ‘I had to go down to Cornwall to be with her for the sentencing.

‘And our family thing was always to buy fish and chips and go and sit on the headland.

‘I picked my mum up and she went in to get the fish and chips — and while she was getting them, my phone rang.

‘It was my then manager saying, ‘Mate, I am so sorry, it has become too loud for ITV. You will have to step down from This Morning’.

‘And she arrived in the car. She said to me before I arrived, ‘You’re not coming down with any bad news are you?’.

‘She sat in the car and she was all happy to see me, and then she said, ‘Oh, your face has changed’.

I said, ‘Let’s go on to the headland’. And I had to tell her.’

In an interview last week Phillip said he believed his career was ‘over’ and he had ‘lost everything’ after admitting he had lied about his relationship with a man on the show.

‘I have to talk about television in the past tense, which breaks my heart,’ he told the BBC. ‘What am I going to do with my days? I see nothing ahead of me but blackness, sadness regret, remorse and guilt. I did something very wrong, and then I lied about it consistently.’

He said the criticism he’s faced since admitting the affair has had a ‘catastrophic effect’, adding: ‘Do you want me to die? Because that’s where I am. I have lost everything.’

In the interviews, Schofield, who was also dropped by his talent agency YMU after his admission to the Mail about the ‘unwise but not illegal relationship’, said he was ‘utterly broken and ashamed’.