Some odd questions and loose ends.
Will he still get the payoff he was expecting? Rumour seems to be he was in line for £300,000.
So why put out the statement admitting this and give up the money? If the story was to come out later, most likely he wouldn't have to repay it. That's a lot of money to just ditch if you thought you were entitled to under your contract and fought for just a week ago.
Then there's the issue of the TV soap awards. He accepted a deal which included hosting it. It next Saturday. He fully intended to do it because that was part of the deal to leave with immediate effect.
The deal he seems to have spent well over a week lawyering out with ITV.
He wanted things to end with a resignation not be tarred with a sacking and he thought he'd achieved that. Everything in the press was about how he'd been forced to resign but he had held out because ITV had contractual obligations to him and because it didn't want to look as if it had constructively dismissed him.
It doesn't make sense unless SOMETHING has happened or someone has given a story.
If he had an inappropriate relationship with a junior staff member and he had known him since he was a child, then arguably ITV could have booted him regardless of his contract for gross misconduct. No need for illegality.
Every one saying the agent dropping him is the tell is missing this. The agent's reputation is also damaged. They could have been blindsided too. They had stuck by Scofield all the way through. They had insisted there was no relationship, only for Scofield to say there was. That alone makes them look bad and damages ALL their clients. Maybe they do know more, but equally I don't think they have to.
The key bit, is why did Schofield walk away from his deal? There's a reason for that.
Maybe simply to put the boot into Holly and screw her over in petty revenge, but that doesn't really make sense either. Cos the money and the job on the table.
I know there were fears that someone would stage a protest or event at the soap awards. The opportunity to humiliate Scofield on stage in front of a large audience was there. That couldnt be covered up. Now THAT might have something in it. But SOMEONE would have had to have told Scofield. Possibly someone at ITV themselves. And I can't see that staying secret for long if that's the case.
But there is no way you lawyer up and make a deal only to change your mind on a whim a week later. It makes no sense at all without a third party influence.
Then for all the 'poor wife' vibes, apparently his wife is still married to him. She's not filed for divorce. There's got to be an odd relationship there to stay married even after your husband has come out as gay in the way he has. He hasn't been living with his wife. His daughters are well into adulthood. That smacks of an unhealthy relationship. I don't think anyone would think any less of her, even if they were particularly religious, in these circumstances. She'd married him essentially under false pretences by his own admission.