Phillip Scofield Why all the Fuss

I agree with crazyH, never liked him always found him rather smug .

So many of these older men take so long to "come out". Could it be the fear of the unknown? It seems crazy to me that these people can go through getting married and even have children and secretly want a different lifestyle.
Where I worked in the past a colleague talked a little bit about being gay I had not been there long and one day he spoke of meeting his AD for lunch he then told me he had been married for 15 years before coming out.

There is so much about the LBGT community these days and it has been going for years why not just be who you are as soon as you are firmly aware of your personal sexual identity?

Hear hear, don’t really care, but am wondering what his wife makes of all the fuss he’s getting.

Exactly! Who cares.

I do wonder what his wife thinks of all the congratulations ,is it invalidating their marriage by saying how fantastic you're GAY Phil ?

Quite agree with previous replies - who cares.

I agree withpaddyanne jumped before he was pushed. Couldn't care less.

I agree, a big fuss about nothing. I have no issues with anyone's sexuality, but I do object to people shoving it in my face at every opportunity.

He's made it into a fuss

I reckon someone was going to "out" him and he did it first .There would probably have been no reason why he needed to otherwise.I know two men in their 60's with wives and children who are homosexual and their work colleagues all know ,so presumably their families do too.It was much more common in the past .

I give up why do we need to know !
I don’t care if he’s gay, straight, bi, impotent or doesn’t do it at all it’s not my business
watching all the hugging and congratulations on TV I thought he’d at least saved somebody’s life, talk about overreaction

I think he wanted everyone to know, no publicity is bad, I would rather not know anyone’s sexual preferences, celebrity or not?

I am being my cynical self.....he came out today just to deflect the big issue with Ruth. She had lodged or was planning to launch an official complaint against him/his bullying .