Phillip schofield

Iam64 and Sparklefizz he did similar a couple of weeks back with his mother.
It’s particularly unpleasant after what she is going through with her other son.
I’m sure that she doesn’t want to be all over the papers, for heaven’s sake.
He should be protecting her, alongside his wife and daughters, not using them as a fire wall.

GrannyGravy why aren’t Philip and his mother indoors?
They just popped outside to have a cuddle?
He knows the photographers are there, just as he did when he dragged his mother into it last time.

Sparklefizz

There are photos online this morning of PS with his mum, arms around each other and looking sad, when apparently PS is breaking the news to her.

Who arranged for a photographer to be there to record the moment and pass on the photos? Cynical moi??

That’s what I was getting at above. This is being managed by OS’s expensive PR people, and the number of people sympathising with him shows how well it has worked.

What I am also saying is that the runner doesn’t have this option. If he did speak out (and of course he might not want to) it would be on his own. He would be at the mercy of the interviewer (as was Kerry Katona) and couldn’t control the narrative in the same way at all. It’s a very unequal situation.

I’m a bit confused.
The pictures that were supposedly taken yesterday (4th June) look exactly like those which were taken on 21st May, following Timothy Schofield’s sentencing
This is one taken 21st May

This is the article
www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/mornings-phillip-schofield-visits-mum-30035070

I have no idea whether those photos were staged or not, but we frequently walk in that area with the dogs when in Padstow. It's like a headland, quite exposed, with benches dotted along the way and there's nowhere to hide. People do go there to reflect, there's sometimes flowers left on the benches. Easy to take photos of anyone.

And today’s article featuring photos supposedly taken at the weekend.
In exactly the same location and wearing exactly the same clothes

www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/devastated-phillip-schofield-pictured-comforting-30150746

GrannyGravy13

Iam64

Sparklefizz - I saw those staged photographs and share your views. How low to stoop, to use your aging mother as a prop in your attempt to manipulate.

I doubt the photos were staged I imagine that there is at least one if not more paparazzi following PS’s every move…

Of course they were staged! Why didn’t he stay indoors with his poor old Mum or go in the back garden? It’s just like when he staged his whole coming out on TV. Eamonn and Ruth were called on the way to the studio to do their show and were told PS and HW would be there to make an announcement!

His poor old Mum, I wonder if she’s in the early stages of dementia and just doesn’t know what’s going on because if she did she would surely not agree to be photographed knowing one son is in prison and the other has lost his job for lying etc.

Photo supposedly taken this weekend

Compare and contrast!

I don't believe Kerry Katona is as damaged and mixed up as some people think. We spent a pleasant time with her and her kids when we were on a school trip abroad, and she was joining in and asking our pupils all about themselves and their school, (a bit like PoWales does!)

To be fair to your detective skills FannyCornforth none of the photos this weekend from my family in Cornwall had them wearing hoodies and jeans during the day! So you might be right. (But I don't know as I'm in boiling France.)

Thanks Joseann!
I’m utterly convinced the photo’s released of him ‘comforting his mum’ were taken on the previous occasion in May

Joseann

I don't believe Kerry Katona is as damaged and mixed up as some people think. We spent a pleasant time with her and her kids when we were on a school trip abroad, and she was joining in and asking our pupils all about themselves and their school, (a bit like PoWales does!)

I'm not saying that she is damaged now; but she said herself that the interview on TM damaged her mental health, and she has flashbacks to it even now.

She's not the only one - I don't watch the programme, so can't come up with examples of my own, but a number of people (many not famous, but who found themselves in the news for various reasons) have said the same - that they were ambushed and made to look bad, then sent back to the sneers of their neighbours. They weren't given photo opportunities and very undemanding TV and newspaper interviews to help them get over it.

It wasn't your comment Doodledog I picked up on, more Kerry Katona appears to be a deeply damaged person who sometimes causes damage to others. We met her in June 2008 (end of academic year trip) and she certainly wasn't slurring her words, so I don't know why that was in the TV interview, though did it really need to be pointed out and questioned?

Has Holly W done a statement on TV today?

Oops, sorry I've just realised I'm an hour ahead. I return to the thread later to read opinions here.

Joseann KK was visibly very affected by something when she was on This Morning.
Kerry said that it was something to do with antidepressants, while it was suggested on the show that she’d been drinking.
Either way, whatever it was that was influencing her, it was clear that should not have been allowed on air at all.

Thank you formthat insight, FC. Looks suspiciously like the press may be telling porkies again, about when this "weekend" photo was actually taken. Spot the difference? I can't. Excuse my cynicism, but is this setting Schofield up for a kicking again as someone who is using his aged Mum in playing the sympathy card? If so, it has worked, because some here are responding exactly as expected. The press never let the truth get in the way of a good story, eh? I'm no fan of Schofield, but neither am I a fan of the continued feeding frenzy

FannyCornforth

I’m a bit confused.
The pictures that were supposedly taken yesterday (4th June) look exactly like those which were taken on 21st May, following Timothy Schofield’s sentencing
This is one taken 21st May

In the pictures, the mother-and-son can be seen on a bench as the former 61-year-old presenter puts his arm around his 87-year-old mother and holds her hand as he delivers the devastating news
Phillip Schofield was spotted sharing an emotional moment with his mother as he told her the news of his This Morning axe

They both look quite happy in your photo, FannyC, wearing the same clothes in the same lovely spot.
🤔

Stock photo?

I think that Schofield’s ‘people’ would have provided the press with the photos.
You seem to be very keen to have an argument NanaDana, you aren’t getting one from me

I take your point Doodledog that the young man (although I don’t think we know his age) has not got the resources available to him that PS has got. However I stick to my opinion that we can’t know what his opinions about all this are, and that his silence may suggest that he’d like the whole circus to go away. We don’t know what he thinks simply because he hasn’t told us. If he was desperate to get his side out, he would only need to approach the media and no doubt, they’d lap it up. Therefore I feel that he prefers to stay out of the whole affair and get on with his life privately. If this is the case, I don’t blame him.

Callistemon no, I believe that all the photos were taken around about 21st June.
At that time Schofield was engaged in a charm offensive as he knew the story was about to break, and that his troubles were compounded by the sentencing of his brother.
At the time I criticised him for using his mother and staging his happy family act in front of his photographer

NanaDana

Thank you formthat insight, FC. Looks suspiciously like the press may be telling porkies again, about when this "weekend" photo was actually taken. Spot the difference? I can't. Excuse my cynicism, but is this setting Schofield up for a kicking again as someone who is using his aged Mum in playing the sympathy card? If so, it has worked, because some here are responding exactly as expected. The press never let the truth get in the way of a good story, eh? I'm no fan of Schofield, but neither am I a fan of the continued feeding frenzy

Just to say that I do not watch Good Morning, I am not part of any feeding frenzy but I don't take everything I see and read as the absolute truth.
Cynical? Perhaps. But not gullible, I hope.

FannyCornforth

Callistemon no, I believe that all the photos were taken around about 21st June.
At that time Schofield was engaged in a charm offensive as he knew the story was about to break, and that his troubles were compounded by the sentencing of his brother.
At the time I criticised him for using his mother and staging his happy family act in front of his photographer

Yes, it should most definitely have been a private time with his mother.

The photos look staged unless, of course, there were photographers with long lenses in a boat somewhere offshore.
Using them a second time could just be lazy journalism.