Phillip Scofield Why all the Fuss

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

Funny old world.

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

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.

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.

Thanks for the links Sparklefizz.

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.

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!

Because he didn’t tell her 27 years ago ?

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

Agree Sparkle

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

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.

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"

It is sordid eazybee in my opinion

Just scrolling down, thinking 'how sordid' when I read your comment, Anniebach.

It’s all rather sordid

I’ve was told by a reliable source yesterday that he was about to be outed so that’s the reason for the announcement. I was also told that he’s pretty powerful within the industry and with powerful allies. The story with the young man will be shut down and ignored by the MSM. Lo and behold, this morning I read a story that colleagues had known he was gay for a few years and he has helped many young men deal with their problems around being gay and he had been ‘mentoring’ a young man that worked on the show for several years. How the mighty PR machine works.

To be honest, I really don’t care but I am sickened by the blatant hypocrisy and cynical deception of the viewing public. I’ve never paid the man much attention and don’t watch GMB but for what it’s worth I doubt PS is a very nice person.

He has known the boy since he was 10.

Good grief, he received a standing ovation when he was on a show - dancing on ice

How terribly painful for his wife!

And if there were plans to punish him for bullying on This Morning, he will be untouchable now.

The link someone posted to YouTube on p. 12 of this thread says it all.

Smileless
www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/phillip-schofields-wife-stephanie-lowe-21454903

guardian.ng/life/phillip-schofields-wife-shattered-by-him-coming-out-as-gay/

plus several others.

Yes it’s all over the internet now . Seems like it could be something to do with his recent fallings out with certain people .

I found the "legend" comment and the standing ovation on Dancing On Ice over the top to say the least and that's putting it mildly.

I did read somewhere, can't remember where now must have been yesterday, that his wife knew nothing about this and is devastated. I agree with Annie this has been all about his career. I expect that there will be a legal "ring of steel" around this story from now on.

If he has been in a relationship for the last six years surely his
wife knew ?

Smileless Where was that reported Sparklefizz?

In half a dozen papers I read online this morning.