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Phillip Schofield has come out as gay

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catinb0oots · 07/02/2020 09:59

Blimey. Married for 27 years.

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TSSDNCOP · 07/02/2020 17:41

I think finding out your supposedly straight father is in fact gay might surprise even the most liberal offspring.

yolofish · 07/02/2020 17:42

Neither are mine Gr3. Being homophobic has nothing to do with it, its about the lying and deception.

Unless of course PS has always had "daddy's special friends" and they've grown up knowing. Which personally I think unlikely, but you go ahead and think everyone commenting against PS is homophobic - you're wrong btw.

Gr3yCl3y · 07/02/2020 17:42

They may well have had an inkling anyway and certainly wouldn’t question everything. So ridiculous.

Gr3yCl3y · 07/02/2020 17:44

In your opinion. Not wrong in mine.

Gr3yCl3y · 07/02/2020 17:45

And not thinking everybody commenting against PS is homophobic but some definitely are.

ByGaslight · 07/02/2020 17:45

As soon as I saw this I knew the predictable course the story would take through the usual media and I thought "I hope there's a thread on Mumsnet where people are being sceptical". Thankfully, yes.

This looks strategic in terms of PR given the bad feeling on the sofa stories that were brewing, I also suspect a tabloid in the wings. Much of the 'entertainment world' is coming out in social media support of his bravery according to the BBC, who are also running a handy 'what it's like when your parent comes out as LGBT' panel with a smiley family on it.

PS isn't so old that he was forced into the closet, he may well not have been brave enough to risk being sidelined in his telly career though. I am very sceptical of all this ooh sexuality is complicated etc. That's only something I feel sympathetic to when people have made decisions which protect others from their 'confusion'.

I feel very sorry for the wives and families of men who suspect they are gay but who marry (and I mean with the assumption they are straight, not a 'lavender marriage') and have children, then wait until middle age to 'come out' to applause.

This exact scenario happened to a friend of mine some years ago and it unravelled her whole life: the worst bit - and where it was different from common-or-garden cheating - was the realisation that he had used her as a way of repressing his feelings for the sake of his career, so all the past was thrown into doubt. It turned out, though, that he had not been able to entirely repress his feelings to other men but was able to get all that off his chest when he came out to sympathy and understanding. He's fine, with his husband and his financial cushions and his bravery. She and her boys aren't, but there is no space for them to express that.

lilgreen · 07/02/2020 17:49

Man deceived wife and family for decades and gets called brave when he fesses up.Hmm

lilgreen · 07/02/2020 17:50

Totally unfair to take over This Morning for his own agenda.

NoImNotSpecial · 07/02/2020 17:50

Is anyone straight any more? Family values are so 1980s. Meanwhile his wife is expected to be accepting of the fact her husband of 27 years would rather have sex with men. Must make her question her whole married life.

ScribblyGum · 07/02/2020 17:51

I'm shocked. I always thought he was gay and today I not only found out he's been married to a woman for 27 years but that I have now completed the transmogrification into my father and am completely oblivious to all things celebrity culture.

motherheroic · 07/02/2020 17:51

Straight people rushing to tell the LGB community that being gay isn't a big deal. I have to laugh. You are outside looking in, you don't know what the gay experience actually is.

Anyway my thoughts are with his wife and children, whether this blindsided them or not.

paintedsmile77 · 07/02/2020 17:51

He's been deceiving everyone, he's not brave. He's had to come out for some reason.

woodchuck99 · 07/02/2020 17:52

I have just watched him on GMTV and it is quite sickening. Nobody says people are brave nowadays for coming out. The only difference between him and the people who aren't lauded as being brave is that he's been married for 27 years. What hypocrisy.

Dowser · 07/02/2020 17:52

Man deceived wife and family for decades and gets called brave when he fesses up.

😂

paintedsmile77 · 07/02/2020 17:54

What makes us think his wife's only just found out. She will have known for years.

DeeZastris · 07/02/2020 17:55

Sick to the back teeth with men doing this and then expecting a round of applause when they acknowledge who they really are. They got married in the early 1990s not the 1930s - no one would have been shocked if he cane out then.

Shinycat · 07/02/2020 17:56

@paintedsmile77

What makes people think his wife's only just found out. She will have known for years!

But that wouldn't suit the spiteful agenda of the haters and beraters.

They prefer to peddle this tale that she didn't know until this morning.

Utter bollocks of course.

Bluntness100 · 07/02/2020 17:57

She knew, he said she knew for a long time, and I don't doubt it for one moment.

TheSandman · 07/02/2020 17:58

I also find it totally unbelievable that your DD has never heard of Phil Schofield.

Seriously. She had no idea who he was. But then I don't know who all the Youtubers she prattles on about are. Kids these days just don't watch TV. Or at least mine don't.

BentNeckLady · 07/02/2020 17:58

Man deceived wife and family for decades and gets called brave when he fesses up

This sums up how I feel about it.

JuanSheetIsPlenty · 07/02/2020 17:59

It’s funny because I’ve got loads of questions and seen loads of questions here that I’d love to be put to PS on the TM sofa and the person I’d love to put them to him is actually him! Grin I’ve seen him interview people over the years and he can be pretty blunt and sharp. Very direct and firm with his line of questioning. Not the meek and mild, soft and almost female voice I heard from his show today. I’d love the direct/blunt PS to put the PS of today on the sofa and get some answers. Obviously will never happen but one can dream Grin

lilgreen · 07/02/2020 17:59

Probably waited for their girls to grow up and be away from school gossip. Still doesn’t make him brave. Still doesn’t give him the right to do that on TV. Can’t stand him anyway, gay or straight.

dementedma · 07/02/2020 18:01

Why is PS sex life of any interest to anyone ( other than his wife)?

UntamedWisteria · 07/02/2020 18:02

I don't really get it.

I'm the same age as PS, and have had several friends who have been openly gay since I was in my '20s. It hasn't been a taboo issue for 3 decades!

Unless there is some other reason, I don't understand why he felt he had to stay in the closet so long. Disclaimer: I have not RTFT.

lilgreen · 07/02/2020 18:02

As for those saying his wife knew, I should imagine she did realise at some point but it sure as he’ll wasn’t before she married him or had his children. He used her and wasted her life to cover his real story when there was never any need to. As a pp said, they married in the 90s not the 30s.

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