Phillip Schofield has come out as gay

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Blimey. Married for 27 years.

I don’t think most teens would know him...

Shinycat what? Plenty of 15 year olds won't know who Phillip Schofield is. Since when are they sitting down to watch This Morning?

In the last 15 years I've only ever watched him 6 times on How To Spend It Well at Christmas, doubt you'd get many teens sitting down to watch that. Can't remember one occasion when any of my kids might've caught a glimpse of him.

He’s not a different dad. Your sexuality doesn’t define you as a parent.

OF COURSE he's a different dad!

You dont grow up to your early/mid 20s (?) thinking Dad and Mum are a great, happy loving couple and then get told that Dad is actually gay without that being a huge shock.

Yes, he's still their dad, but he's not the one they thought they had, who was married to their mum.

The next thing will be having dinner with dad and his boyf, which is fine, except that your dad is now shagging this man instead of your mother - that's got to be a mindfuck in the early days at least.

@LoseLooseLucy

My 15 year old daughter knows who he is, and has never watched him on This Morning. There is quite a popular Facebook meme page dedicated to him called Schofe reacts that she likes.

Exactly! I find it hard to believe that anyone has never heard of Phil Schofield. (Even teenagers!) If anything, teenagers would be MORE likely to have heard of him, as they would be on social media more.

It's like when people claim they have never heard of Love Island or Big Brother, and have never watched Friends, or The Simpsons, or a soap opera. It's a weird kind of TV snobbery, and they act like they're superior because they don't indulge in the same thing as the common folk.

@crustycrab

what? Plenty of 15 year olds won't know who Phillip Schofield is. Since when are they sitting down to watch This Morning?

Nah not having it. Unless they have lived in a cave in the Antarctic all their lives with no TV, phone connection, or internet access, there's no WAY!

So mum is a diff mum if she decides she’d like to find another man. What utter bollocks. Couples split up all the time, it doesn’t change them as parents.

He is clearly actually bisexual given he could clearly get an erection with a woman

I'm sorry but your child is over simplifying it. Men can stimulate themselves to an erection that's nothing to do with thei partner, from manual stimulation, to various positions, to theirnown thoughts, and none of us know about their sex life.

I really don't understand why some people are trying to dispute what he's said. If he was bi he'd have said so. He's many things but ignorant about how own sexuality isn't likely one of them and randoms more knowledgeable.

He's said his wife has known for quite some time. It appears it's his kids who didn't know. If they are splitting. Then it's not because she had no clue he was gay.

If she's leaving then it's because of something that's about to come out that caused this announcement. He has not said they are splitting, neither has she, in fact he's being going on about how wonderful she is.

so itsna very close cousin to gaslighting

It really isn't. Gaslighting has the specific intention of disorientating the victim.

Regardless, no one knows what went on in the marriage and what was said when apart from Phillip and Stephanie. This was actually the point
I was originally trying to make.

I really don't understand why this is a big deal. I can't stand him anyway, but why is it so 'brave'? Being gay isn't a big deal anymore. The people I feel sorry for are his wife and daughters who must wonder what on earth he was doing for 27 years presumably pretending to be something he isn't?

@crustycrab

Are you seriously say Phil is only on THIS MORNING? LOL!

He's not a different dad but I think he would be seen in a different light by his children once they found out as it's a huge part of him that they didn't know existed.

Seems people happy to say it was common knowledge
twitter.com/ArmisteadMaupin/status/1225734943084613633
twitter.com/search?q=kevin%20maguire&src=typed_query

I thought he was gay. As in, I had no idea he was married but he is very camp and I always assumed he was gay.

I think it's brave to tell your kids in this context, the mans being lying their whole lives. The rest of the world not so much.

It's probably going to be seen as a lot less brave when we find out what prompted it

I worked in tv and it was an open secret...

He had a boyfriend for years who lived near a mate of mine.

His poor beard wife and kids...

I'm guessing he was about to be exposed by the tabloids.

Parents are people learning to really your parents as you get older is a good thing.

PS’s daughters said they’ll always be a family. Families are all different shapes and sizes these days.

butterpuffed that is what I was trying to say - they will see him in a different light. And being young-ish they are probably revolted by the thought of either parent having sex with the other, let alone A N Other person of whatever sex!

I hope he and his family can all be happy. I've always found him a bit cold/smug tbh but maybe that was because he wasnt fully being himself? I know he's said no one's forced him to come out but I can imagine there are people with stories lurking desperate to sell their stories.

They’re 27 and 24. They’ve said they’re fine.

Pretty sure they wouldn’t be getting all this concern if he was having an affair with another woman.

I don't know why people are insisting he is bisexual. If he was he would why wouldn't be say so? It would actually be less scandalous because it would mean it was possible for him to be attracted to and in love with his wife the way you should be in a marriage.

@crustycrab- oh yeah- meant ITV of course

I really don't understand why this is a big deal. I can't stand him anyway, but why is it so 'brave'? Being gay isn't a big deal anymore.

^This

I couldn't give a shit if he's sexually attracted to monkeys. I do however have a real problem with him being lauded as a 'hero' for coming out. It's been rumoured for years that he was gay. I suspect his hand has been forced as it was about to be exposed in the press. The only people deserving of sympathy here are his poor wife and children.

All the Twitter twits and instanuts falling over themselves to praise him and congratulate him, would they do the same if:

a. Holly announced she was a lesbian
b. Phil announced he wasn’t into his wife anymore, loved her very much but would like to sleep with other people
c. If their own spouse announced this on national television.
d. If their own father (At nearly 60) revealed this. Would they be quite so congratulatory then?

My 14 year old definitely knows him- in fact only a few weeks ago she was saying how it's actually a bit cool for teens to like him- in a sort of anti-cool way IYKWIM- I think there's a bit of an internet following for him amongst teens.