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Be Kind - Schofield/Willoughby

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reachingfeverpitch · 21/05/2023 21:52

The internet seems full of awful comments about Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.

People should perhaps remember what happened to Caroline Flack!

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Missingmyusername · 28/05/2023 16:13

Dartmoorcheffy · 21/05/2023 22:02

Hes a smug twat who has had his fall from grace. He groomed a young boy. He's not much better than his brother. Never particularly liked him. Fake and false.

His position meant that young, impressionable children trusted him. Just like Saville. Would you say ‘be kind’ in support of saville and glitter?

CF was worried about the police body cam footage being made available. The police and her ex should be ashamed. He couldn’t wait to move on so he wasn’t that invested in the relationship, he wanted to ruin her.

OriginalUsername2 · 28/05/2023 15:59

SchoolShenanigans · 23/05/2023 06:27

From what I read, it was a 17 year old teenager. Calling them a child isnt helpful in this instance; there's a vast difference between a 10 year old and a 17 year old.

Would you want your 17 year old’s career dictated by a middle aged man he was having secret sex with?

OriginalUsername2 · 28/05/2023 15:56

reachingfeverpitch · 21/05/2023 21:52

The internet seems full of awful comments about Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.

People should perhaps remember what happened to Caroline Flack!

Be kind to groomers. Okay.

lljkk · 28/05/2023 15:53

Some of these threads will get deleted for slander.

How do any of these threads help the presumed victim, PS's young lover, or the definite victim, who PS's brother abused?

I have learnt a lot about how much people cared about HW & PS, and seemingly invited HW-PS into their lives, as though actually daily sharing breakfast with them. That's the only way I can make sense of the strong feelings in so many threads.

Lampzade · 28/05/2023 15:46

Dinopawus · 21/05/2023 22:06

Ill reserve my be kind for the underage victims of groomers, thanks.

Exactly

Qilin · 28/05/2023 15:42

CherryCokeFanatic · 21/05/2023 22:19

Wish it was Holly who had gone

The way you have written that makes it sound as if you'd wish it was Holly going rather than Philip.

Whilst she may have known more than she says, if we ignore her assurances she was also lied to about it by PS, she still wasn't the one to have an inappropriate relationship with a much younger man, having known him as a child.

Soontobe60 · 28/05/2023 15:41

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 21/05/2023 22:01

the people to blame for Flack were the police! They took a non case through to trial for no reason what so ever!

side note: you’re allowed to say you don’t like certain tv presenters!

Interesting.
Would you think the same if the sexes were reversed?

Mummysaf · 28/05/2023 15:38

Oh this bollocks

heartsinvisiblefury · 28/05/2023 13:53

My comment was obviously tongue in cheek

rwalker · 28/05/2023 13:49

heartsinvisiblefury · 28/05/2023 13:05

What speaks volumes is the huge amount of celebrities who are speaking out for him and supporting him...

I think now more has come out the voices of support are getting few

tbh at 1st it was just hearsay and shit stirring which is very common in the public eye

but now most of it has been substantiated so rightly so people have stepped away

philipmccuntfield · 28/05/2023 13:20

No thanks

heartsinvisiblefury · 28/05/2023 13:05

What speaks volumes is the huge amount of celebrities who are speaking out for him and supporting him...

roxyro · 28/05/2023 13:01

Over40Overdating · 22/05/2023 10:02
Well perhaps if PS had been kinder to the many people he had relationships with over the years, personally and professionally, there wouldn’t be quite so many people publicly celebrating him getting his comeuppance. And it has nothing to do with his sexuality and everything to do with him being a bully, for decades

Re the comments on him not being responsible for his brother’s crimes - certain details of that crime were not made public but likely will be in years to come by the person involved, and those claiming PS is being unfairly criticised for his lack of action will be singing a very different tune. Anyone with a shred of humanity would have gone to the police immediately instead of trying to save their own reputation by proxy.

Be nice to people on the way up because you’ll meet them in the way down. The way they’re queuing up to dish the dirt tells me all I need to know about PS. He’s obviously not a nice guy so difficult to feel sympathy.

OuchIStubbedMyBigToe · 23/05/2023 12:36

Sigmama · 23/05/2023 07:03

Caroline flack's story was a little but more complex than shame over her incident of violence. Would you be ok for her mother to read some of the comments on here, have a bit more compassion

What, that she walloped her bloke with a lamp in a fit of jealousy? That it would have been a different matter if the roles were reversed? Nothing wrong at all with calling that out.

Summerfun2023 · 23/05/2023 09:08

Bellagio40 · 23/05/2023 04:52

His brother was absolutely NOT a police officer

He was a civilian police worker for Somerset not a police officer a civilian police worker working to help the police and the public. He also had to follow the law and I am assuming to work in the police a clean record.

MayThe4th · 23/05/2023 08:50

TheChosenTwo · 23/05/2023 08:11

Does anyone seriously give a crap about queuegate? Really? Don’t watch TM but there were so many threads about this and I can’t understand why people were so het up about it 😂

Honestly the hysteria over the queue makes people lose all credibility.

They didn’t actually do anything wrong, they had legitimate press passes, but people kicked up a fuss because of who they were.

Ironically when David Beckham didn’t queue people criticised him for that because they thought he was purely doing it for attention.

I have 0 doubt that if P and H had queued the same would have been said about them.

TheChosenTwo · 23/05/2023 08:11

Does anyone seriously give a crap about queuegate? Really? Don’t watch TM but there were so many threads about this and I can’t understand why people were so het up about it 😂

Neighbours87 · 23/05/2023 08:07

I think people are angry and happy to see Phillip go because quite often he was the one leading the witch hunt. I remember a particular episode where he shamed a mum I benefits for buying Prosecco

Wombastic · 23/05/2023 07:25

Hmmm I live in a tiny village so if I were to date someone 38 years younger then people could say that I had known them as a child- so that is maybe a distraction. But- I would not ever date someone that much younger. When I see under 25’s they look like children to me and that’s just gross.

Any woman will tell you that they have at some point been judged about their “purity” called a slut etc. As a result women are much more careful about who they date in general and think about how it will reflect on themselves and their families. Philip has never had this, he’s been admired whatever he’s done. The gay community tends to be freer in general so it’s very possible he was too relaxed and didn’t think about how he would be seen.

I am interested in why both brothers have turned out a certain way and would be asking what happened in their pasts. Could be wrong but….

RichardsGear · 23/05/2023 07:16

QuintanaRoo · 23/05/2023 06:59

Well 17 is over the age of consent so if that’s true why has he gone to prison?

Well, quite! I think people need to read up a bit more on this case before jumping in to minimise what happened and making excuses for a pair of fucking horrible men.

Sigmama · 23/05/2023 07:03

Caroline flack's story was a little but more complex than shame over her incident of violence. Would you be ok for her mother to read some of the comments on here, have a bit more compassion

QuintanaRoo · 23/05/2023 06:59

SchoolShenanigans · 23/05/2023 06:27

From what I read, it was a 17 year old teenager. Calling them a child isnt helpful in this instance; there's a vast difference between a 10 year old and a 17 year old.

Well 17 is over the age of consent so if that’s true why has he gone to prison?

AbreathofFrenchair · 23/05/2023 06:47

SchoolShenanigans · 23/05/2023 06:27

From what I read, it was a 17 year old teenager. Calling them a child isnt helpful in this instance; there's a vast difference between a 10 year old and a 17 year old.

The abuse of the child started when the child was 13 and continued for a 3 year period.

Please, STOP trying to find ways to make it acceptable. You are as bad as Timothy Schofield who insisted it was a mutual relationship.

It was abuse. He was a minor. Its paedophilia and Philip Schofield knew and did nothing.

StopStartStop · 23/05/2023 06:47

Summerfun2023 · 21/05/2023 22:20

One last thing Holly and Philip are not feuding it's his way out without the press talking about the real reason his pedophilic brother.

It's all an act to protect her career when the details of his past behaviour are fully exposed.

SchoolShenanigans · 23/05/2023 06:27

AbreathofFrenchair · 22/05/2023 09:02

His brother told him he was engaging in the sexual abuse of a child and Phil did nothing with that information

And YOU think that's ok?

So if your sibling was mutually masterbating to porn with a child, you would keep that to yourself? Wow. What makes you better than them at this point?

You might as well say you enable paedophilia and be done with it

From what I read, it was a 17 year old teenager. Calling them a child isnt helpful in this instance; there's a vast difference between a 10 year old and a 17 year old.