Phillip Schofield has come out as gay

[catinb0oots]

Blimey. Married for 27 years.

Yes to all those things.

No Shiny as I've named one of his other shows I'm clearly not saying that. But this is amusing,

"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."

TV snobbery? By teenagers? 😂 I think most of them have watched Love Island and The Simpson's. But the shows he presents, not so much. You do know what they are seeing on social media is all content marketed towards them and their interests specifically? The pictures and adverts they see on social media are not the same as we see.

It's a bit narrow-minded to think everyone must've heard of him to the point that you are incredulous when they say they haven't and accuse them of snobbery

The issue with his kids is they may wonder if he had them just to hide the fact he was gay, just like the whole marriage really. Was everything fake in order to hide his secret.

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

Exactly. Who would want the revelation that your dad was never attracted to your mum and you were born of a bearding relationship? Of course it's going to be unsettling, even for adult children. I wouldn't want to find that out now and I'm old enough to have grown children of my own.

One would hope familial relationships remain strong. But that doesn't mean I feel any obligation whatsoever to applaud yet another tale of a man and his "struggle" completely obliterating the women in his life as if they don't matter at all.

He’s so about to be outed. He’d have taken this to the grave otherwise. There’s been no need for him to hide this for a very long time.

The only funny thing is watching Eamon trying not to turn inside out with having his Friday show used for the big reveal.

He deceived her during sex too. As a gay man he was never sexually attracted to her, he’ll have been thinking about men the whole time.

My gay friend married a woman, he was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness so coming out meant being disowned from his family and he didn’t wish to do that. He eventually divorced her (after five years and no children so different to 27 years with two!). I asked him how he had sex with her and he said he fantasised in the same way you do during a wank...

From the way he speaks of her, I think he loves her romantically but not physically, and I definitely think that they will stay married.

Oh fir goodness sake that is just a shitething to say. Truly awful. They will know they’re loved, they will love their dad. That is all that will matter to them.

Shit happens. Your parents loving you never changes, stop trying to trash their relationship.

I wonder if this is a very cynical ploy from Philip. There have been rumblings about his attitude recently, being a nightmare to work with, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's released this news because it was having a negative effect on his following, or because it looked like he was going to be pushed out from ITV.

It certainly seems to be an open secret so he must have some ulterior motive for releasing the news publicly.

Oh, and Ruth is such a hypocrite, she's had a continuous hatred of him for a long while, and now she's hugging him! I think it's so she doesn't seem homophobic or bitter.

I had the misfortune of being `interviewed' by Schofield and Holly on their grisly, gurning and gushy show.

They were disengaged and distinctly chilly.
I didn't like either of them.

As for his coming out, I just think it is desperately unfair when gay men marry. Often in these cases the wives are let down at the lack of the physical side. Nothing worse than being attracted to a man and him fobbing you off with excuses.

The clips of him and Holly gushing, gurning, hugging and weeping on This Morning made me feel quite sick. Anyone would think he had just come back from a terrible war or saved a family from a burning building. Yuck.

Perhaps all the family knew already. We don't know what they thought, suspected or knew.

If he's going to stay with his wife, I don't know why he didn't just tell her and keep it quiet.

Why do people have to broadcast it to the world? He's just a blinking TV presenter. I really don't care but I think it's undignified and egotistical to tell everyone, publically.

No one really cares. It's his personal business and he ought to have simply kept it quiet and confided in his family if he felt the need.

No-one really knows about the dynamics of Schofield's relationship with his wife or children. They're supporting him through this and presumably they're doing that because they love him. Whether he's always known he was gay or whether this is something he's only recently come to understand, surely he deserves some compassion rather than judgement and vitriol.

I really don't understand why this is a big deal.

It isn’t. PS deciding to turn it into a scripted performance, taking over E&Rs Friday morning show, and sobbing all over the TV has given people the impression they should treat it as a big deal. Exactly as he wants them to. He is husband own PR wagon. He will have planned and rehearsed this for maximum benefit to himself.

BTW I just checked with my DC (10 and 14) “do you know who Philip schofield is?”

10yo: yeah he does that car ad with the puppy.

14yo: yes. Everyone knows who PS is.

I would’ve LOVED to have been in the car with Eamon and Ruth on the drive home.

Who's coming out next... Lionel Blair???

@ThomasShelbysBunnet
that certainly has a ring of truth about it.
He seems unpopular but how can anyone ever sack him from anything ever again without seeming homophobic.
These days, coming out can be good for your career.

Gr3 sorry cba with the rest of your name... its not about trashing their relationship, it's about the fact that it will inevitably change/has already changed.

My DDs are 23 and nearly 21. If they were told DH had been secretly gay all their lives they would question EVERYTHING about their growing up. I think that's a totally natural reaction, rather than saying "oh Dad's gay, well that's great, shall we have pizza tonight or go to the Chinese?"

Apparently his daughters jumped up and gave him a big hug.

Yeah, right.

Well, if he wasn't forced to come out on TV, then he has behaved in a dreadful way: for publicly wanting praise and acceptance at the expense of his family's privacy.

If he HAS been forced by the papers, I can understand why he said he hasn't (the whole "oh so you would have lived a lie for longer unless you had been forced") BUT I do feel slightly less animosity towards him.

It shows how accepting of being gay we are now, that the primary concern is for him possibly deceiving his wife and kids, rather than anyone giving two hoots that he is gay.

My mum realised she was gay in her 50s. I had thought she was for years. She genuinely didn't realise and then was in denial. Mum thinks PS is a shithead for doing this publicly if he wasn't forced. It puts his family in an awful position.

I'm sure the media have known about it for years. They don't normally out people nowadays but they would be very interested if they found he was having affair with someone. That's the sort of thing that always appears all over the papers and even more interesting if the affair is with a man. We will probably find out before long.

Sal injunction alert! No way is Lionel gay.

Then again, I remember saying the same thing about George Michael when I was 17.

Well my dc wouldn’t as they haven’t been raised to be homophobic.

Can someone tell me how this is different from and braver than if he’d announced “I’m not attracted to my wife sexually and want to sleep with other women. My wife and children have been really supportive if this new arrangement” ???

Well he's hardly going to say "I'm only admitting it now because it was about to break". As said, he's trying to control the narrative.