Phillip schofield

‘Nobody said that the King is involved in the manhunt, incidentally. But Schofield has been dropped by the Prince's Trust, which again, is unusual when someone hadn't been charged with anything. I wonder why that happened?’

Because of the media hype. They had no choice as they would be ‘guilty by association’ if something was true. I can understand it.

Quote Doodledog Fri 02-Jun-23 18:33:47
Agreed, GSM, and don't follow celebs, or watch This Morning, but I am also curious as to why so many people are backing away - from fellow celebrities who just don't like PS, to his agent, to ITV, right up to the King.

Anniebach

No one lies to family and friends if they are having an affair, only Schofield

Of course they do!!!

The King is in Romania. I doubt he had anything to do with the decision.

Iam64

Germanshepherdsmum-and Doodledog, I’m on the same page as well. It’s not too crowded and it’s a calm, sensible legally well informed and grounded space.

You jest? 😬
It’s a crowded, full of gossip, fevered imaginings and possibly libellous space.

JPB123

Anniebach

No one lies to family and friends if they are having an affair, only Schofield

Of course they do!!!

Anniebach is using sarcasm to good effect here

Nobody cares about Al Pacino in his 80’s having a baby with a woman in her 20’s.Just saying.

Iam64

Germanshepherdsmum-and Doodledog, I’m on the same page as well. It’s not too crowded and it’s a calm, sensible legally well informed and grounded space.

Count me in.

Oreo, since you raise Al Pacino I’ll confess to finding it all a bit of a challenge. I read he’s asking for dna test as the relationship ended
Being a father in your 80’s is on my list of just because we can doesn’t mean we should

Oreo

Nobody cares about Al Pacino in his 80’s having a baby with a woman in her 20’s.Just saying.

You don't know what people care about. Just saying.

Trial by media. Very bad.

Why should we care about Philip Schofield???
He’s merely a TV presenter ….and yet his story has been the first item on BBC News at Ten????

Who cares about Philip Schofield? What does it matter? It’s not important

It is trial by media-
the TV,
any social media that hides under anonymity.

Love59

Why should we care about Philip Schofield???
He’s merely a TV presenter ….and yet his story has been the first item on BBC News at Ten????

The media is now 24 hourly.

There used to be 4 or 5 channels. Now there are countless.

It all needs filling.

Trial by media - but his interview, a presenter crying on live TV about him, a bereaved mother weighing in with support for him, and criticism of his former employers - it's just fuel to the media trial flames.

I don’t think the people who want this to be investigated fully necessarily ‘care about Phillip Schofield’. I don’t. I care about what he is alleged to have done, and about anyone he is alleged to have done it to. A prurient interest in Schofield s not why people are keeping the story in the news. It is so that the people at the top of ITV can’t ignore what has been going on any longer.

This thread is frustrating. People keep coming on and suggesting that it is all celebrity fluff, as they clearly haven’t bothered to read what has been said, as none of that is responded to. It’s as though the fact that PS worked in daytime television means that people talking about it must be airheads obsessed with ‘celebrity’, and the thread will be beneath their intellectual interest. Despite ‘not caring’ about any of it, and despite not knowing what it is all about or why it matters, they have to have their say though

Rylan a gay man on this morning had an affair last year, he was not sacked, he did not lose any advert deals etc. If he is involved with charities they didnt drop him. This is to do with interacting with 15 year olds on social media, then the power imbalance within the workplace, and also that some of the activity happened within the workplace.
People talk about the dangers of trial by media, that may be true, but it's not as if not talking about it is the 'good' option and doesnt do harm. Sorry but life is not that simple.
In the same way that saying oh be kind around caroline flack did in my view untold damage.

I certainly think there needs to be investigations into what he did or didn’t do. Also into the cover up role of ITV and the other presenters, and why any earlier mentions of his activities were not investigated.
I don’t like him, so I have no trouble believing what he’s accused of doing.
I don’t need to see emotional interviews with PS. Can you imagine inviting JS or RH onto TV to give their version of events?

The problem with trial by media is that, for example if it turns out he had done nothing more than he claimed on the BBC interview, he wouldn’t be believed and if anything came to court, then we would be like Fury in the Mouse’s tale;
I'll be judge, I'll be jury,'
Said cunning old Fury;
'I'll try the whole cause,
and condemn
you
to
death.

Claiming homophobia - ridiculous

So Schofield has been removed from the Prince's Trust when all that has been proven against him to date is that he has been unfaithful to his wife. Hmmm... A certain irony there... and perhaps just a wee touch of hypocrisy?

He's probably been removed from the Prince's Trust because they're aware of stuff relating to Schofield that isn't out there yet in the public domain - distancing themselves from what might come out.

I would imagine he has been removed from the PT simply because an older, powerful person having sex with a very much younger fellow employee, and lying about it to their family and employer, is not the sort of behaviour expected of a PT Ambassador.

I agree wholeheartedly with all Doodledog has said. There’s been many points made that aren’t being acknowledged.

Think about it. He came out as gay after the young man openly declared his love at the tv awards. The public weren’t aware of this but, for whatever reason, PS came out. A flurry of media attention, young man shipped out then business as usual.

This isn’t why PS was sacked/resigned. By all accounts Holly Willoughby had stopped talking to him and issued the execs an ultimatum - either he goes or I do. This, reportedly, because she didn’t want to be tarnished by association because of the brother’s conviction. So he didn’t lose his job because of any affair. He would still have been working on other programmes for ITV but not TM. Then - for some reason unknown he unexpectedly released a statement revealing he’d lied to everyone and that is when he lost everything else.

Why aren’t all his supporters asking WHY he released that statement. What pressure was he under and WHO was applying that pressure?

I can’t understand why others can’t see this. It’s not really about PS, it goes beyond him and, in my opinion, Holly Willoughby isn’t the giggly blonde she’d have us believe.

Good post tickingbird. The first three words of your second paragraph are key - quite a lot just aren't.