There we go Schofield has admitted ‘affair’

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Front page of the daily mail for my sins.

@HotSince82 @OvaHere Ahh thanks for clearing that up.

This just this.😡I'm so angry, did these people learn nothing after Savill.

Ruth has a son, I can't imagine Timothy and Phillip were on Holidays with Ruth and Eammon's son.

Can we take a moment to remember the three women interviewed by him who were victims of Jimmy Savile and his attitude when he interviewed them "why come forward now" etc. Im wondering how they feel about all this.

I just think in media circles less this type of thing is an accepted norm.
Up until the point that the public gets a whiff of it, then its damage limitation 101 a la Willoughby et al.

There are no lessons to learn from a covertly accepted practice, well apart from 'keep your powder dry, or be damned'

Seriously, who cares ?.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1582681-I-have-had-enough-of-Phillip-sodding-Schofield-and-his-apologist-attitude-towards-Jimmy-Savile

Lesson learned are to abuse and cover up better.

Will the burglar still be on This morning too?

That's a mad post.

It takes the runner being close to your son's age for you to realise it's inappropriate behaviour?!

And no, it wouldn't have been different in the 70s or any more acceptable - it would have been viewed as negatively then, if revealed & not hidden away, as unfortunately much is.

They met when the boy was 12, very dodge

https://www.facebook.com/reel/802605188237710?s=chYV2B&fs=e

That's another one! I don't think they should be plastering photographs of his family all over the article. It should only focus on him.

That is a very good explanation of why I feel so nauseated about this ongoing practice in the culture of TV and film.

Male politicians do it with 'interns' as well.

Perhaps his many colleagues at ITV whose careers he has placed in jeopardy for a start.

There you go then Jen, point proven.

They are all in cahoots and cover each other's tracks.

Now the actual truth about Ant and Dec and all the rest of them at ITV in front and behind the camera please. And watch this space re Hollys marriage ‘breaking up amicably’. So much bullshit.

I’d guess without a statement from the other party it wouldn’t happen. If however he chooses to make any sort of statement different story.

If what PS is saying is true he has put himself in a stupid position because the other party could say anything now and would likely be believed. Certainly by the public and probably in a court.

Phillip, Holly and This morning were pushing Butterfly and Mermaids, they normalised gender identity, lies and permanent pre pubescent bodies, I care about that, why don't you?

I'm sorry but I very much hope you're taking the proverbial....

You can't seriously believe anybody within ITC was in any conceivable way NAIVE TO THIS?

I mentioned my sons age to put it into context (for myself) - I thought they were a lot closer in age. I knew PS knew MM from when he was a teen, but i hadn’t realised the age gap was so big until the timeline posted above.

I always knew this friendship was a bit dodgy.

It's not the people who didn't know who deserve to be the targets of ire. Because post-Savile, the idea that "everyone could know" that someone was a sleaze (or worse) and it remain hidden (protected?) was thought to something that just should and could never happen again.

So the ones I'm cross with are all those who knew, but did not act in ways that brought the person to account

IIRC, when this story was first bubbling around on social media, there was at least one photo of Schofield visiting the youth theatre group and the young runner, then aged around 10 or 11, was one of a group of children in the picture. It's possible the boy could have been a bit older as he is one of those people who looks much younger than their age. In video footage as an adult the runner also seems to be quite young in personality, too.

Schofield did him a lot of favours. Arranging for behind-the-scenes days at ITV, appearing in his showreel, taking him out to dinner.

There was also that time that Schofield provided a character reference for a young man on trial for blackmail and revenge porn. Wonder what motivated that?

Bye bye slimey scofield

Has his agent dumped him?

Interestingly, the comments under the DM article seem to be overwhelmingly “leave him alone”, “he’s so brave” and “it’s not a crime”.

Who are these people?