Phillip Schofield

[Day]

Well. 

[Anag Ram]

5 hours ago, David said:

Well. 

Not Gordon too???

[Anag Ram]

He was going to join Paramount but was disappointed when he found out it didn’t involve anyone from the armed forces.

[Mick Brolly]

[SSD]

 

[angieram]

Is there some reason why this is all over the BBC as if he's some sort of important person?

[Day]

In all seriousness, with what's coming out now (no pun intended), sounds like an ITV cover up job.

Shameful.

[ketteringram]

12 minutes ago, angieram said:

Is there some reason why this is all over the BBC as if he's some sort of important person?

I don't know. I know what he presents, but I've never seen it. There has to be more to it though. Does everyone who has had an affair at work have to resign now? Have we gone 60 years back in time ?

[Day]

1 minute ago, ketteringram said:

I don't know. I know what he presents, but I've never seen it. There has to be more to it though. Does everyone who has had an affair at work have to resign now? Have we gone 60 years back in time ?

It's not the standard affair, whilst not illegal (his words), the lad was a teenager looking to get into TV, Schofield helped him and then got into a relationship with him.

Things ended, the lad was crushed apparently and had to be moved on to another show.

The optics around this don't look good, especially as there is a photo floating around where the lad was at school.

As I say, he claims nothing illegal went on, morally though it's not good.

[Day]

1 minute ago, David said:

It's not the standard affair, whilst not illegal (his words), the lad was a teenager looking to get into TV, Schofield helped him and then got into a relationship with him.

Things ended, the lad was crushed apparently and had to be moved on to another show.

The optics around this don't look good, especially as there is a photo floating around where the lad was at school.

As I say, he claims nothing illegal went on, morally though it's not good.

 

[Anag Ram]

I think the key thing was Schofield’s dishonesty.

Also he was in a position of power. Whilst the story will become salacious,  it’s a typical older man, younger partner work thing.

Trouble is, presenters like Schofield adopt a serious-faced judgmental approach to stories like this for a living.

The Daily Mail will be priapic for weeks.

 

[Gaspode]

It's the goat I worry about - yet another youngster cast aside.....

[PistoldPete]

48 minutes ago, ketteringram said:

I don't know. I know what he presents, but I've never seen it. There has to be more to it though. Does everyone who has had an affair at work have to resign now? Have we gone 60 years back in time ?

There's a power imbalance . To me that makes it a bit morally wrong in any workplace but in this case totally wrong especially when he lied about it, and all the other stuff around it.   

[Ram-Alf]

Unfortunately the Worlds full of people of the same ilk as Schofield, Money, Power, Influence and the most cunning of all...the face of TV, A clean cut likeable fella who until he "came out" had it all, Once he opened the door to that closet a hornets nest followed.

Starting life as a Blue Peter presenter, Then having a hand in Gordon the Gopher then moving onto a breakfast TV show, You build a pack of cards for money and fame, Take 1 card away and your World comes tumbling down.

No doubt there'll be more stories to follow soon enough 

[BaaLocks]

41 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

I think the key thing was Schofield’s dishonesty.

But haven't we all moved on? Shouldn't the airwaves be full of his supporters telling how this is all just 'nonsense'? Maybe Phil could just go out and stop a few boats then we'd all realise he's a damned principled fellow underneath all of this. 

[GboroRam]

Will the vocal anti BBC posters (who love to mention the BBCs record with presenters and paedophilia) will have the same level of outrage? 

[PistoldPete]

1 hour ago, GboroRam said:

Will the vocal anti BBC posters (who love to mention the BBCs record with presenters and paedophilia) will have the same level of outrage? 

Schofield has been rightly sacked, forced to resign. Not on the Savile or Harris scale though is he? 

[Archied]

5 hours ago, The Last Post said:

Unfortunately the Worlds full of people of the same ilk as Schofield, Money, Power, Influence and the most cunning of all...the face of TV, A clean cut likeable fella who until he "came out" had it all, Once he opened the door to that closet a hornets nest followed.

Starting life as a Blue Peter presenter, Then having a hand in Gordon the Gopher then moving onto a breakfast TV show, You build a pack of cards for money and fame, Take 1 card away and your World comes tumbling down.

No doubt there'll be more stories to follow soon enough 

He came out because this grooming/ affair story was surfacing on the internet, I saw it long before he came out on tv 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Archied]

3 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

Schofield has been rightly sacked, forced to resign. Not on the Savile or Harris scale though is he? 

From what we know  AT THIS POINT 

[Chester40]

5 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

There's a power imbalance . To me that makes it a bit morally wrong in any workplace but in this case totally wrong especially when he lied about it, and all the other stuff around it.   

Seems to be a lot of odd moral outrage about him 'lying about it', which seems pretty ridiculous.  

He's hardly going to be honest about doing something that is highly reprehensible behaviour at best!

Focusing on him lying and distancing themselves is just a smokescreen by those who colluded to not bring it all into the light, rather than being the actual nub of the matter - which is basically him using his position in a  way that is looking worse each day.  

Imo he resigned precisely because it was all coming out, which is what would have happened if he'd been honest from the beginning! He's an awful lot of things but completely stupid isn't one of them.