There we go Schofield has admitted ‘affair’

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Front page of the daily mail for my sins.

Are you reading ANY of this? His 'love life'? The man groomed a child FFS. If you class that as a love life, I despair.

I haven't RTWT so sorry if this has already been said but I'm assuming PS's super injunction is coming to an end (or he can't afford to keep paying for it) so he's admitted to this as damage limitation before it all comes out in an even worse way. What a wanker.

Yes, he first met the boy aged 10.

Tattle has all the evidence, some of it has been collated here: https://limegoss.com/phillip-schofield-runner/

He was 19/20 when he started as a runner for TM.

Sorry but I dint actually see what he’s done wrong really. He had a consensual relationship with another adult not underage albeit much younger than him. People have affairs all the time. Unless there is more to it I’m struggling to see why he is being vilified just for this.

ODFOx · Yesterday 18:47

He had an affair with another consenting adult. FGS the 'mystery' and conjecture has made it far worse than it ever was.
If he'd come clean about the affair when he came out it would be water under the bridge by now.”

You’d be comfortable with a 50 something man in a position of power in the workplace having a sexual relationship with an 18 year old “woman” in a junior role then having her fired when he’d tired of her?

So when he was married to Stephanie he was having sex with a boy a lot younger than his own children and sounds like he could have groomed them too. Vile man.

I'm confused! This came out when he came out as gay? I heard about this affair with a young runner well over a year ago? And through social media not a friend of a friend or something like that. Im not excusing it, I'm glad to see some repercussions but it had been so long since wind of this broke that I thought it had been brushed under the rug. How come he's now losing his job and being publicly shamed for it but he wasn't at the time?

Or alternatively. You know fuck all about safeguarding, don't have safeguarding awareness and have never done safeguarding training.

Anyone who has worked in a situation where it's required for working with children or young adults knows that there is an issue with power dynamics and it's why relationships of any kind with someone in education / training / youth groups if you are their mentor are firmly regarded as disciplinary matters.

They don't HAVE to be illegal to be 'unwise' as Schofield puts it. They are still not ok and represent a potential abuse of power over someone vulnerable.

Schofield in saying he was unwise is admitting he broke these safeguarding protocols. Protocols which are in place to also protect the adults as well as the young people involved. In breaking the known protocol, he has knowingly screwed himself. So can not whine about his privacy. That's the entire point. The protocols are about protecting his privacy but he chose to ignore this.

It’s not an affair when a grown adult grooms a teenager they have a lot of power over - it’s abuse. He’s taken advantage of this young man. I think there’s a lot of enablers and apologists around who don’t understand the difference. Being legal doesn’t make it morally right.

It's comments like this that make it easier for groomers to get away with their actions.

I think there a lot of very stupid and deeply unpleasant people in the world, some of whom have gravitated to MN.

There were a lot of posters on here defending J Savile immediately after he died, and Prince Andrew, using the same arguments: entitled to privacy, leave him alone, none of our business, these youngsters wanted it, charidee work, nothing illegal. It’s grim.

So what? It happens every day. All these "holier than thou" types using it as a stick to beat him with. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. He's gay, he had a relationship with a young man, but not underage. Maybe his wife knew about it anyway...

I am not aware of all I know.

It seems to me EH & RL saw a safeguarding risk, they made a complaint, were then forced to humiliate themselves at work and do the 'brave' worship pat on the back to a man, in his big come out, the man they knew was a groomer, they would then go on to be sacked anyway and likely called phobes and nothing was done about that complaint.

I would be bitter too if that is how things happened.

I don't know how they did the fake pat on the back thing after the complaint, I wouldn't be able to do that.

He knew him from age 10
He engaged with him on social media from the age of 14
He groomed him.

He's described it as either an affair or a relationship. Classic minimizing.

Because "the public" are now ready to listen and accept what was being said as true. Even now we have people on this thread who still don't see the problem and making excuses.

The court of public opinion is still a thing and you can get away with a lot of dodgy things if you're in favour, especially with a background threat of legal action.

The tide is turning on a lot of things that people were being villified for speaking out about now, thank goodness!

If DH did this with one of his scouts, he would be treated the same as Schofield. If not investigated by the police.

Cos safeguarding.

If Eamonn and Ruth knew about this years ago (which is why they all fell out I presume) why is he being so loud now about an ITV coverup? It just makes him look like a hypocrite for going along with the hand-holding "coming out live on TV" façade.

And as for HW willingly taking her family, including a young son, on holiday with PS when she MUST have at the very least have heard the rumours....😡

Yep, that's my take on it too. Whatever is about to be revealed in the coming days/weeks is career-ending.

I gather some of the holidays were with Timothy and Phillip.

Holly must have known. She's going to have to deny knowing, but I'm wondering if schofield will say she knew. It's all so disgusting that this has been allowed to happen, again. When will we learn. Holly is hopefully toast too.

Is the TS boy related to them both

They stuck by him all last week. And all this week. Despite the publicity. THEN they dropped him when he admitted the relationship.

Admissions like this usually come after a celebrity has had a call from the Mail telling them they are about to drop an exclusive tell-all of some description.

Basically someone has threatened to spill the beans and the celebrity is given their 'opportunity' to give their right to reply.

So you would guess that a colleague or the ex are about to do a story in one of the Sundays.

And there's a possibility of previous exs also being willing to now come forward.

Schofield's statement was a 'damage limitation' statement - and his agent dropped him immediately on this. It was not a confession / taking responsibility off his own back. It was forced out of him.

Watch social media about 9/10pm Saturday night when it drops.

The rumours about his relationship with MM and the allegation that he had an injunction have been in the public domain for some time.

I find it difficult to believe that those working on This Morning during the period of time involved had no knowledge of it. It is disgusting that those in a position to do something about it didn’t.

I’m really surprised that there’s people on here that are seeing no issue with it.