Phillip Scofield Why all the Fuss

It is sordid eazybee in my opinion

Nothing brave about PS.
Brave was the Doctor is China who blew the Whistle on the new Coronavirus.
Was arrested and now is dead.
Also the journalist who also blew the whistle has gone missing.

PS doesn't know what brave is. He has had no good reason to lie for decades. I could see he was gay from the start ( watching childrens TV with DD back in the 1980's) and i had plenty of gay friends who were open.
I didn't know he was married as I have no interest in him or the ITV prog he presents.

Saying he is brave is making too much of it. Not to mention it appears he was about to be "outed"

The judge on Dancing on Ice who made a gushing speech to PS last night .... one has to wonder about his reasons for doing so. He had probably been at the studio with PS for a few hours, possibly longer, so could have said all of that to him privately had he wanted to. But no! It was done on camera to make himself look good. What other reason could there be?

And thus with all the other luvvies who have jumped on the gushing bandwagon. As I've said earlier, I can't stand the hypocrisy and the virtue signalling.

My gay friends feel there was no need for all this public outpouring and humiliation of his wife. I agree.

I agree Sparklefizz it was totally unnecessary- we now all know so life also goes on.

Agree Sparkle

FWIW his wife has been very supportive of him; I don't see why the fact the her husband is gay is 'humiliating'?

Because he didn’t tell her 27 years ago ?

humpty I don't see why the fact the her husband is gay is 'humiliating'?

Because of the way he has made a big public spectacle of his announcement and is still carrying on about it days later.

Her whole life is being turned upside down. Presumably she is a similar age to him and had expected to grow old with him as her husband. Now he's "a friend" and the whole relationship is on a different footing with everything that that entails. Any of us who have been dumped by our husband for whatever reason will understand all the emotions that will be surfacing for her.

She feels she has to be seen to be supportive of him .... and this shows what a lovely person she is!

If he'd dumped her so publicly for a young girl it would have been equally humiliating.

However, some women come through with their dignity intact, like Paul Hollywood's wife.

Thanks for the links Sparklefizz.

Callistemon Paul Hollywood didn't make a huge public announcement, and wasn't feted afterwards for being "brave", though, which makes it different. People slated him for his affair, they didn't write rapturous tweets about him.

He wasn't saying that for the last 27 years he had been thinking of some young girl. He didn't say that he married his wife while knowing that he wanted some young girl.

Actually if it were me I can imagine there would be all sortrs of emotions swirling around but I don't think humilitaion would be one of them. They've been married a long timne and I daresy she has been aware for some time of his sexuality and I would like to think that it would not stop her loving him - or vice versa - except in the area of sexual relations.

humpty they have two children so no problems
with sexual relations.

1967, homosexuality decriminalised 2020, its brave for a multimillionaire man with some dubious back story to announce he is gay.

Funny old world.

No definately not brave.
Bravery is going out on an RNLI lifeboat in a rough sea.
The firemen going into the 9/11 towers when everyone else was running away.
Being a soldier in the first world war or any other war really.
My grandad was brave.
I could go on.

Whilst I agree it was the honest thing for Phillip to do, the way it was done was cringy. All that lovey hugging and tears, on national tv I dont think most people really care one way or another but I expect his family do, and despite how amazing his wife, and family have been about the announcement I can only imagine the pain and hurt it has generated. But Phil rides off into the sunset as a hero lauded for his bravery but if he had been brave he would have been honest a bit earlier but maybe he would not be the popular figure he is today without his wife and family.

Still feel sorry for his wife of 27 years. P.S. presumably known he is gay all his life (well once he started to have sexual feelings) all gay friends I know have said they knew from early age they were gay)

Are the public being fed the fake news that P.S. has been completely faithful to his wife for the 27 years without any hint of cheating on her with a man? Mrs Schofield go and find yourself a good man and best wishes to you once you find him flaunt him all over the tabloids and everywhere else hopefully he will be a toyboy with the body of an Adonis.

Today's "new" about Schofield is that he had an affair with a young man named Matthew McGreevy, formally a runner on This Morning, who left after some argument. He was 18, Schofield 51, when they were apparently lovers. If that's true, then Schofield isn't just gay, but a dirty old man as well.

One of my best friends had a civil partnership with a man who was over 30 years younger than him. He wasn't a "dirty old man". They were happier than most people I know.

So the young man was groomed?

Prince Andrew allegedly had sex with a 17 year old when he
was 40. 23 year difference in age

Schofield allegedly had sex with a 18 year old when he was 51.
33 year difference in age

I seem to remember lots of posts from some on GN who claimed a 17 year old knew what she was doing (even though she claimed a convicted paedophile had groomed her). Apparently an 18 year old man isn't able to decide for himself and must have been groomed (even though he hasn't actually said anything). The double standards and prejudice on GN never cease to amaze me.

trisher, with all due respect, I believe the young man was known to PS from the age of 10 and was in an employee, an imbalance of power. Indeed , perhaps that is the common thread. I don't know, and we don't know. This " coming out" thing is a load of old nonsense though.

You remember right trisher but it’s not just any old double standards and prejudice is it, it’s good old GN misogynistic double standards and prejudice ?

Double standards trisher ? mmmmmm