Phillip Schofield has admitted he wanted Prince Harry to "shut up" and stop speaking negatively about the Royal Family - until he heard Harry's recent interview on Dax Shepherd's podcast.
The This Morning host slammed the "dreadful" interview, claiming the host did not let Harry speak, but said the Prince's revelations changed his opinion of him and wife Meghan Markle.
In the interview, Harry said royal life was a mix of "The Truman Show'" and "being in a zoo".
Speaking alongside co host Holly Willoughby, Phillip said: "I thought the podcast was dreadfully done, they're shocking interviewers - just shut up and let him speak!
"So I didn't think that was any good anyway, but when you listen to the full podcast you see the headlines, he was in the Truman Show, big headline.
"No, he was fed that line, and then he repeated it, it's very unfair."
He added: "I went into that podcast thinking, 'Oh Harry, do shut up', and I came out thinking, 'Good on you!'
"He also said he is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, the headlines are cruel, there is no support for him whatsoever.
"Yes I understand he's done what he's done, there are times he has said things that are unwise, you don't want to upset your grandmother, she has just buried her husband.
"But you can't talk about mental health without talking about your background."
Royal reporter Camilla Tominey said: "I thought it was soul-bearing, I thought it was interesting from a journalistic point of view, I think it's ironic that a man who wants to live a quiet life keeps on making so much noise."
On the Armchair Expert podcast last week, Harry said that, as he grew older, he realised Charles was raising him in the same way he had been raised himself, and he wanted to change that for his own children.
He explained: "When it comes to parenting, if I've experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my father or my parents had suffered, I'm going to make sure I break that cycle so that I don't pass it on.
"It's a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway, so we as parents should be doing the most we can to try and say, 'You know what, that happened to me, I'm going to make sure that doesn't happen to you'."
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