Phillip Schofield has come out as gay

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Blimey. Married for 27 years.

Sarah you can tie yourself in knots trying to rewrite and misinterpret my posts. It won't change the fact that your determination to laud Phillip isn't the progressive stance you think it is. I'm not going to reply to you any more as you're obviously being deliberately obtuse. To quote a PP:
Schofield is being heralded as brave and exemplary when in fact he stayed closeted his entire life
He's the antithesis of brave.

@sunshinesupermum sorry to hear that - I hope you have since found true happiness.

To everyone saying it wasn’t easy coming out x years ago - I can’t really comment, but surely a decent person would just live a single life rather than drag some innocent person into their deception?

I am a child of a lesbian.
My mother came out to the family when I was 17 (because I was old enough to understand). She had been married to my dad for 22 years. None of us had a clue. She fucked up 2 families when she did this. Her partner had 2 teenagers, so us kids were 16, 17, 18 and 19. My sister (19) had already moved out. The rest of us were left swinging in the wind.
My dad chose to do 2 weeks on 2 weeks off with his job and I saw him once a fortnight.
The 16 year old ended up with an eating disorder and a shit relationship, I ended up with mental health issues and a shit relationship, the 18 year old ended up trying all sorts of drugs and a shit relationship and the 19 year old was diagnosed with bipolar 2 and a shit relationship.
I look back to my childhood and realise that's probably why she was not a loving person.
Even now 30 years later I'm fucked up. But my mental health improved after my mother died because I didn't have to see her anymore.
I was HAPPY when she died and felt no guilt at all.

And NONE of this would have happened if she had left your father for a man?

Strange timing too. Holly and Phil don't work on Fridays but on a day when Ruth/Eamonn are, he appears with Holly. And they all do the hug thing

i think it would be stranger to expect him to announce he's gay and then carry on the rest of the show like nothings happened, wouldn't it?

I can't believe hes only just realised he is gay. You are born that way, he knew and he chose to lie to that woman.

IfNot

Well if their dad hadn't lied to their mum for 30 years as you put it they wouldn't even exist! So surely we should be happy for them not sorry, as having life is better than having never existed?

i think it would be stranger to expect him to announce he's gay and then carry on the rest of the show like nothings happened, wouldn't it?

eh, why not end of the show Thursday?

I don’t understand, how can you be gay and have children with someone? There must be some level of arousal to manage sex? Does this not make him bisexual? I think it’s horrible tbh to marry someone but not be physically attracted to them.

So surely we should be happy for them not sorry, as having life is better than having never existed?

wtf?!

I feel incredibly sorry for his wife. 27 years and children together all built on a lie.

I don't think he is brave at all. Brave is coming out when you've got something to lose and you do it anyway. Brave would be quietly divorcing your wife, allowing a period of calm and then making a straightforward announcement.

'Pip' has waited until the latter stages of his career and then done an all-singing all-dancing grand reveal, meaning that his divorce will be picked over under the spotlight of his sexuality. Rather unfair to his wife and children, but hey he's being his 'authentic self' and that's what matters.

I have far more respect for people who come out early in their careers - Will Young for instance. He knew he was being groomed as a teenybopper girls' idol and did it anyway.

I agree with PP that the timing is very suspect and that this big reveal is to get ahead of some inconvenient news.

@TheSandman

Fucked if I know. She didn't leave him for another man.
Her choices were her choices, she had a right to be happy. She just chose to abandon her children in the process.

Gingaaarghpussy im sorry you feel that way, but what an awful post. None of that happened because your mum was gay it was because of how everyone dealt with that. Your mum being gay didnt mean you didnt see your dad for 2 weeks at a time, a decision HE MADE meant that, and being 17 your contact wasnt being restricted by your mother.

It's unsurprising, I feel for his family. I suspect a tabloid was about to print it over the weekend anyway.

As is if he's known all along he's gay, has never loved his wife and has been shagging around at her expense. Ridiculous assumptions.

It's been an open secret in media circles for years. Because he gave people reason to talk...

That's not what she said Indella. Perhaps try reading back and engaging your brain before you throw vitriol at somebody.

He works in an industry that's always been welcoming of homosexuality.

Would that be the same industry that, until relatively recently, habitually used gay characters in sitcoms etc as the butt of horrifically homophobic jokes? The same industry that thought homophobic language was acceptable, even for prime-time family oriented shows?

The entertainment industry might have been slightly more tolerant of homosexuals, but that was only compared to the incredibly low bar set by society as a whole.

I have it on very good authority that Mrs S has very recently sought legal advice....

@dunnyplop well yes, why not? but why not a friday? what difference does it make, really?

i expect its also pretty hard to do a whole show knowing youre ending it with that type of announcement, though,.

I can't believe hes only just realised he is gay. You are born that way, he knew and he chose to lie to that woman

What a simplistic world view you have. People are far more complex than that. And people's sexuality changes over the years. I found out the other week that a woman I knew some 30 years ago - she described herself back in the day as a 'butch dyke' - married a man a couple of years back and is blissfully happy. People change.

Just watched the interview. I laughed at Eamonn Holmes about the hot tub.
@Gingaaarghpussy That is so sad. Life changes families split, Would it matter if she left for a different man.

getyourarseoffthequattro that's not what she said. She said that her Mum changed into someone she didn't recognise and with the benefit of hindsight her Mum wasn't a very nice person - none of which has anything to do with being gay. Obviously you can be LGB and still a great parent. But selfish people will always be selfish regardless of their sexuality.

@Indella

Nope.
Happy because she could no longer fuck with my head.
I couldn't give a flying fuck that she was gay.
There were other issues involved.

disclaimer - haven't read the whole thread

is this going to be one of those situations where he had to tell people before some "news"paper did it?