There we go Schofield has admitted ‘affair’

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Front page of the daily mail for my sins.

I think calling any of these liaisons 'relationships' is misleading. I would bet the reality of the 'on-off relationship' was PS using the young man for sex as and when he felt like it. MM wont have had any say in when it was on or off - he may have thought he was in a relationship, but I'm pretty sure PS won't have seen it that way. He's calling it that now to try to disguise the unpalatable truth.

I'll be really interested to see what comes out about DW and indeed the executives protecting 'the talent'.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4815146-holly-willoboughly?page=13&reply=126479882

There are disturbing numbers of posters with anti safeguarding values on Mumsnet, where the mothers of our nation post.

Because there wasn’t a HUGE age difference.

And she wasn’t shagging him in secret and making him promise not to tell anyone, whilst she was married with kids and selling herself on having a wholesome image…

100%. I was in a similar situation at 18 with a 30 year old radio presenter. Grateful for attention and thinking he was my boyfriend and being happy after six months with no arguments. Six months of, with the exception of the first and only date, him turning up at my student accommodation unannounced and me doing what he wanted and being grateful.

Agree

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12133057/Phillip-Schofield-accused-abusing-authority-power-trust-Nadine-Dorries.html

This would be good for whistlblowing!

Yes this is what I think. Apparently young lad publicly announced his love for Phil 2 years ago at an awards bash. I guess he thought they could be public once Phil was out. Guessing Phil shut this down and silenced him threatening him with his ITV career. Hence the denials to ITV. Now that Phil holds no power with ITV the lad is fully in clear to be honest as Phil no longer has a hold over him. I wonder if we will hear his story soon. Just curious as to what has happened this year for this all to kick off and not 2 years ago?

This 💯

I know someone who had a relationship over a number of years with someone in a band. He was married. She got pregnant. He wasn't happy. HUGE age difference. First met when she was in mid teens. The power imbalance was definitely a big thing in that relationship. She came out of it a complete mess. It's not pretty and definitely not ok.

💯 agree.

I've had enough of him to be honest. It sounds like he's actually a bit of a predator. I think ITV should cut the cord although they should have done it years ago before Eamonn and Ruth walked.

I think M M is best to try build a good life now. Jill Duggar didn't find sharing her story long term helpful.

There is enough now to try improve things, although it never does get better, we should not stop striving.

Quite! And why it's HW's buisness or anyone else outside his immediate family is beyond me.

Blimey, everyone associated with this tacky tale is running for the lifeboats.

A Liar and a cheat 😮
His poor wife and children having to cope with this😡
The Coward
How awkward did Dermot o leary look being made to announce it 😯

Isn’t it obvious?

There is no implication that they had a romantic/sexual relationship until after the band had become famous in their own right, he was in his 20’s, the age gap is only 10 years and neither of them lied to their employers.

In contrast the runner was completely dependent on Schofield for his job, but forced to lie for years.

It’s not 2002.

We now look at imbalances of power when we talk about consent.

The whole business makes my skin crawl.

What must this poor young mans family must think, knowing their child was used by a man 40 YEARS his senior.

Skin crawling.

ITV are a sordid bunch.

I don't believe for a second people around him didn't know.

Utterly sordid.

Jimmy Savile and the BBC comes to mind, people knew well he was a creep, but never saw a thing.🙄

That whole coming out on TM with HW holding him looked so staged and false.

Again made my skin crawl.

The "legal but unwise" bit...this reeks of an absolutely predatory unbalanced foul entanglement.

Poor young man.

Yes I agree and there are posts all over Tattle saying the same thing about Cheryl and it’s not the same at all, maybe if she had kept in touch with Liam from when he was 14 to the time she got into a relationship with him, but she didn’t.

There was also a post on there that said Cheryl was openly flirting with Liam on XFactor when he was 14 & that’s total lies!!

Looks like the Mirror are wanting to run a story on PS contacting boys on twitter.

So he met MM when he was 15 but they didn't start a relationship until he was 18? The thing I dislike most is the fact PS was a MUCH older man. A very famous man who was in a position of great power at TM. It's very unpleasant to think of a man that age in a sexual relationship with a teenager, especially when the man has that position of power. However, legally MM was a consenting adult. Morally it's really not good.
As for the grooming stuff I really haven't seen any evidence of this. Seems like they had intermittent contact after meeting but I can't see how that counts as grooming. I feel that part of the story is conjecture - or has someone seen evidence of grooming. PS getting him a job on TM obviously a bit sus but again, not actually evidence of grooming.

The nature of groomers is that it's not just the teenage boy victims he's grooming for sex, it's also everybody else plus all the TV viewers that are groomed to keep their reputations intact. That's why these so called 'witch hunts' happen when the curtain is finally yanked back and we see the real person behind the charade. HW is one as well - she's made a fortune pretending to be a nice person on screen when in reality she's a self-serving nasty piece of work.

They are sociopaths, they are definitely not the only ones on TV and it makes me angry that they feel nothing more than contempt for their public but desperately need our admiration for their bank balances.

HW absolutely knew that disgusting creep was using that young boy. She wouldn't have given a toss about it.

HW husband has always seemed arrogant also.
Saw him at TV awards 10 years ago outside, he deemed to look down on anyone that was just a member of the public.