1. Daughters ‘guarded’ him amid suicidal thoughts
Schofield revealed that he relied on his daughters to get him through thoughts of taking his life last week as the scandal boiled over.Visibly emotional, he told the BBC’s Amol Rajan: “I think I understand how Caroline Flack felt. Last week, if my daughters hadn’t been there, then I wouldn’t be here.
Buggery’s not that shameful these days, is it?
Phil’s laying it on thick, ain’t he?
Wonder what he’s afraid of.
Wonder what he’s afraid of?
Being ignored.
Steve,
I suspect there’s a certain amount of pre-legal “getting to know you” going on or what is known as “grooming”. And I should add that if there was, I don’t care. I don’t think it should be a crime. The line is smashing gonads, not doing nice things for a 15 year old.
John – he’s getting his wish
BoM4 – I’d have guessed him for a bog standard media homo, but he’s probably protesting too much.
All this lachrymose drama about Bumgate and Holly Willoughboobies is indeed very gay.
In 2012 Schofield waved a list of alleged paedophiles at David Cameron on live TV. Perhaps he’s getting an understanding of how those people whose names he flashed on screen felt at the time.
Media luvvie emoting. News at 11.
His suggestion is that his raging hard on leaves him incapable of judging the consequences of his actions if they were found out.
Is he suitable to be left alone with young males?
All this at a time when Al Pacino is to become a dad again, with his 29 year old girlfriend, at the age of 83. The double standards are sickening.
I feel sorry for his ex-wife. It can’t be nice to find out your husband prefers men. But I feeel very sorry for Philip Schofield.
It is understandable that he tried to hide it. And frankly, why is it anyone else’s business? (So long as the relationship was not abusive, which I don’t think it was.) As he said, unwise but not illegal.
It is the loss of his career, and regret for his actions, which is giving him suicidal thoughts. Leave the poor sod alone. He doesn’t deserve the vitriol that has been heaped upon him.
All this at a time when Al Pacino is to become a dad again, with his 29 year old girlfriend, at the age of 83. The double standards are sickening.
Al Pacino is shagging a grown woman who’s nearly 30, therefore Phil Schofield should be allowed to perv on teenage interns.
Adrian, there seems to be a double standard when it comes to teh gays, apparently asking them to cut down on the sodomising a bit is tantamount to genocide…
I think most of the population ( who can be bothered to follow the story ) are too cynical to fall for his victim play acting
I used to run into quite a few chaps who decided after 20+ years of marriage that they preferred bumming other gentlemen instead. Schofield is not in an exclusive club in that respect.
How long before he transitions? From “proud” to “stunning and brave”.
So we have the daughters to blame do we? Seems hard on the lassies.
Jonathan, Clinton got a bit of a hard time doing it, ditto Trump. Weinstein too – some of it was non consensual and he has gone down for it, but I bet plenty of the Me Too stuff was consensual. So not sure there is a gay angle here.
“All this at a time when Al Pacino is to become a dad again, with his 29 year old girlfriend, at the age of 83. The double standards are sickening.”
Was Al chasing after his current girlfriend when she was underage, offering her presents and nice little jobs on his film set, and then shagging her the moment she became legal? If so you have a point.
But they only met a couple of years ago:
https://people.com/al-pacino-girlfriend-noor-alfallah-is-pregnant-7505948
So you have no point at all.
Slightly off topic, but Torygraph’s currently running this:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/06/01/geraint-davies-labour-mp-whip-suspended-sexual-allegations/
MP ‘boasted of taking sex workers to bar in Commons'”
Channelling PJ O’Rourke isn’t it?
@ANNRQ
“In 2012 Schofield waved a list of alleged paedophiles at David Cameron on live TV. Perhaps he’s getting an understanding of how those people whose names he flashed on screen felt at the time.”
They were worried about going to prison – he isn’t worried about that so not so bad.
Wonder how old the daughters are. And how he’d feel about Al Pacino offering them a job.
I think it’s clear that coming out bravery was solely due to imminent exposure
Anyhoo it’s not as if being a gay is a media career blocker is it? I thought it was a requirement
So why did he keep it secret, lie to his family and the media dullards who hasn’t worked it out for themselves (Holly’s apparent brain failure doesn’t look good)?
More to come
BIS,
I can’t really care that much, but why do you take a prostitute to a bar? I mean, you don’t have to get alcohol into them to get sex, do you?
Wasn’t Princess Alexandrina Victoria swooning over Albert Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at her 17th birthday party?
And 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth was panting for 18-year-old Prince Philip Of Greece.
Nice whataboutery jgh!
How are you on Roman Polanski?
Woody Allen?
It’s not the gayness. Seriously, no-one gives a shit any more (and those that do will be furious about the adultery aspect anyway).
He got injunctions to prevent the story escaping. Why, if he did nothing wrong?
There’s more that will come out. And it won’t be pretty.
Phil Schofield’s wife must be a real hottie.
I haven’t googled her pictures but if she can arouse a gay man enough for him to make 2 daughters with his gonad propellant then she must have something righteous bodacious going on.
Obvs out of my league, but I’d certainly fantasise about her if she was on the X10 to Middlesbrough same time as me.
Some gay guys are turned on by women. I give you Robert (Lord) Boothby as an example. Why any woman would have touched him with a bargepole surprises me, but there it is.
Bongo
“Batting for both sides” is the term you are looking for. At some point in their lives, one side offers the better terms and conditions.
It is obvious that the cause of Schofield’s distress is that he had expected to get off scot free by playing the gay card. Only now he’s almost being held to heterosexual standards.