Phillip Schofield

[BaitandSwitch]

He's on R4 this morning, Saturday Live, talking about coming out and of course his new book. I think this is tasteless - he talks about the upset and trauma/impact on his family, yet he has the cheek to write a book about it and plug it on national radio! Not that he is short of a bob or two, with his TV shows and We buy any car.com (that offers as little as it can get away with for your car). It seems that little will get in the way of him exploiting any opportunity to gain publicity and make money - that is the view I have of him.

Schofield came of age in the era of acceptance and married when being gay was neither a crime nor any worse in the workplace than being born... a woman.

He came of age in an era when the age of consent for gay men was 21. He'd have been 18 in 1980, which was the time the AIDS crisis was just coming to light, something which fuelled mass homophobia at the time.

He joined children's BBC as a presenter in 1985. In 1988 a law was passed forbidding schools to '"promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".

Do you really think that would have been an easy time for him to come out?

@randomer

Its got nothing to do with him being born in 1962 and suffering all these years. He is a fame hungry person with a modicum of talent, looks good for the camera and exploits everything he touches. Minted beyond our wildest dreams. Nobody but nobody gives a flying f about some middle aged bloke and his sexuality.

Spot on.

It's always best to come out at the right time to give you time to write your book to be published in time for Christmas... 🙄

I agree, op. He comes across as a selfish git.

We buy any car.com are crap too. They offer way under market value. Shysters!

Perhaps not in the spotlight.

But more easily done in ‘real’ life.

He chose fame. Wanted to bask in the spotlight. Fine. His choice.

But he shouldn’t bleat about how hard it all was for him. He chose it.

I will bet his wife and that runner didn’t want that intense spotlight. I will also bet that it was harder for them.

No one was patting their hands calling them brave.

Not necessarily. He might prefer being the postman to the letterbox.

Thats just so, so, so funny. You are quite the comedian.

Is it any wonder people struggle to come out when faced with such hilarity

raddled More HErMEEEEEEEEEs than Royal Male?

The man who was braver was not Philip Schofield, but Richard Coles, for being an out gay man in an era as described by others, where there was much more hostility to gay men.

We buy any car.com are crap too. They offer way under market value. Shysters!

And this too. More like We Rip off any car.com.

@stillsomewhatsheldonesque

Perhaps not in the spotlight.

But more easily done in ‘real’ life.

He chose fame. Wanted to bask in the spotlight. Fine. His choice.

But he shouldn’t bleat about how hard it all was for him. He chose it.

I will bet his wife and that runner didn’t want that intense spotlight. I will also bet that it was harder for them.

No one was patting their hands calling them brave.

So you're saying that gay people shouldn't have considered a career in television in the 1980s unless they were prepared to come out and accept they'd be on the receiving end of homophobia?

Its odd how the press are treating him and he seems unaffected by the fact he basically groomed a very young teenager.

I can no longer tolerate him.

When it comes to that I wonder who's been paid off?

That was at SBT

Not at all.

I’m saying if he found it so hard he could have lived a happy life out of the spotlight. I don’t believe anyone would have cared about him being gay. He was the one who decided they would and chose a different life.

@WitchesSpelleas

So you're saying that gay people shouldn't have considered a career in television in the 1980s unless they were prepared to come out and accept they'd be on the receiving end of homophobia?

That is not my impression of what posters think. The criticism directed at Scofield is due to his puerile humour and his “Get me!” behaviour as a presenter. In more recent times, we are being treated to his incessant whining about himself.
Bore off.

He should have stuck to gophers. That was his level.

I fear Gordon would disagree.

He was far superior.

I thought the same!

He once did a ‘gig’ at the shop I worked in, to promote a stage show he was doing. His face was hard as nails until the cameras were switched on; didn’t acknowledge any of us who were running around getting things ready for his appearance.

He’s a twat.

Janegrey333

The post I quoted and to which I was responding didn't mention Schofield's puerile humour, or make any reference to his skills, or lack thereof as a presenter. Perhaps you should go back and re-read it.

Tagging rude comments onto the end of your posts doesn't lend weight to your arguments - quite the reverse.

@SpectralPlot
Supposedly another young guy was about to expose him and was stopped by a super injunction, then he ‘came out’.
Seems he’s very manipulative and not pleasant at all.

@WitchesSpelleas

Schofield came of age in the era of acceptance and married when being gay was neither a crime nor any worse in the workplace than being born... a woman.

He came of age in an era when the age of consent for gay men was 21. He'd have been 18 in 1980, which was the time the AIDS crisis was just coming to light, something which fuelled mass homophobia at the time.

He joined children's BBC as a presenter in 1985. In 1988 a law was passed forbidding schools to '"promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".

Do you really think that would have been an easy time for him to come out?

The vast, vast, vast majority of women seem to manage not to abuse those weaker than them - despite the widespread, ongoing, no signs of stopping, victimisation of women.

Schofield got rich in an industry which knew he was gay - as did the majority of viewers, he just hadn't confirmed it yet - and he chooses to be a complete arsehole and abuser IMO. HTH.

He came of age in an era when the age of consent for gay men was 21.
I'm almost exactly the same age as PS, went to London at 18, and used to go to Heaven (gay club) with my gay friends who were also 18. There was a massive gay scene. They didn't take any notice of the age of consent. I didn't even realise until much later that it had been illegal to be gay. It was pre-aids. It wasn't the dark ages.

It’s all me me me with him. About what he has had to endure and no mention about his poor wife. He’s publicly humiliated her and is wrapped up in his own self pity.