Philip Schofield interview on BBC News/iplayer now.

[JeandeServiette]

Anyone else watching?

I wasn't supposed to be up this early but what the heck.

It’s absolutely disgusting that he’s using Caroline Flack’s tragic death as a means to manipulate the public further 😡😡😡

But going by some of the replies on this thread, it’s working so one point to Philth’s PR team 👌
Nice pressure on his daughters as well now too.

He’s an absolute narcissist through and through, only cares about himself and how the public perceive him.

Also….a “professional” veteran TV presenter should know better than to vape during a fucking interview. What a twat.

Yes some of the comments on here are not only disgusting, but more disgusting than what PS has done.

He’s done something wrong and what most people (including me) would regard as inappropriate. The younger man was 20. Over 18. It’s yuk, but there’s no evidence of grooming or abuse.

He’s done an interview on the Sun as well and his blink rate is incredibly low when he speaks. Make of that what you will.

This is the crux. He needs to take responsibility for his actions and face up to the consequences. Threatening suicide so everyone goes ‘oh there there, it wasn’t so bad after all’ is not the answer

Yes he's not really taking responsibility. Saying the words that it's his fault but then falling back on manipulative talk. Acting like a victim.

Interesting that he compares himself to Carolyn Flack when she got a lot of....well, flack.....for dating Harry Styles who was much younger than she was.

Then why is he on the TV giving interviews? It's like Harry and Meghan all over again. If you go on TV and do an interview, sorry but the hoi polloi are going to comment even if you think they shouldn't.

I’m watching it now. He’s a manipulative liar imo.

It’s disgusting to sit there and say “do you want me dead” then say “this is how Caroline Flack felt.” He’s got no intention of committing suicide, he’s just crying wolf in the same way as manipulative partners do when the other wants to leave.

He has a wonderful marriage with a very supportive wife apparently. How the hell does that work? If that’s true then Steph is a better woman than me.

If he was wanting this interview to draw a line under everything then I don’t think it’s worked.

Another person who is happy to berate someone who is obviously the victim of this exact type of abuse. Well done for criticising an abuse victim who is speaking up about the effect their abuse has had on them as disgusting, so that you can enable an abuser to abuse others in the same way.

I don't know much about either of them or their relationship. It certainly didn't get BBC or broadsheet coverage AFAIK. Other posters have tried to analyse the similarities and differences, though.

This!!!

Totally agree.

I get you have no proof, but if you had the option, you'd want him to be punished through the legal system. And if PS has committed a crime that's
how he should be punished. The runner is 27 and does have proof so it's up to him if he feels PS has done anything wrong.
It's absolute manipulative nonsense to say I only think of the abuser. I have literally criticised people for saying awful things about the runner.
What I'm saying is that this public baying for blood and salivating over PAs downfall is not the way to handle what has happened. And that people are saying they'd be happy for their child to be driven to the point of suicide is beyond my comprehension.

who else did he help get a job?
how on earth did that happen?
what a load of hokum

His body language - so dramatic 🙄

He's lying about a number of things which could easily come out and be disproved eg the "coming out" being unrelated.

I know people who worked on Joseph and he was out out then - shagging people in the cast!

So why is he so confident and brazen about lying when do many people know the truth?! That's what I don't get!

how are we supposed to belief this tripe?
he met him
they followed each other on twitter and he got him a job
seriously?

Haven't rt whole thread but really fed up at him saying 'if it wasn't for his daughters he wouldn't be here'.

As someone bereaved by suicide this is just so so hurtful and not how it works. Urgh. What a deeply unpleasant man.

Well, there is probably evidence of grooming though... He's known the lad since he was a young teenager, been out for a meal alone with him when the lad was all of 15/16, helped him get a job within the TV industry and then they embarked on a sexual relationship which they then both lied about.

Are you 100% confident there was no grooming, and no coercion on the part of Schofield to get the younger man to lie about the relationship, because of the inevitable fall out and impact on Schofield's career?

Or was it a truly consensual and informed relationship on both sides with equal say and power?

I know what I'm erring towards....

KLM: Explain the difference?

Iirr, they met briefly in a TV show.
They then went their separate ways for a few years.
CC did not, afaik, maintain a relationship with Liam throughout this time, mentor him over the years, get him jobs on her shows, etc.
isn't it the case that they met up again a few years later and then began their relationship after that, when Liam was very much an adult.
The age gap was also much smaller iirr.
So although first met when Liam was young, there was no ongoing relationship, suggestion of grooming, manipulation of work around them, etc. AFAIK anyway.

I don’t believe that his daughters were supportive and brilliant when he owned up to having the affair. I just don’t. My kids are brilliant, everyone’s are, however if either me or DH had lived such a lie in our lives, let alone in public in front of millions of people, they’d have been incredibly hurt and very let down. My kids would have been furious if either of us had had an affair with anyone, regardless of their sex, because of the effect it would have had on the other parent.

His friends have allegedly all been supportive because “this is not him”. It’s all homophobic. If it had been a woman it would have been “nudge, nudge, wink, wink..” 🤢 Everyone who says he’s toxic is a liar.

It just doesn’t ring true to me. He’d have been better off staying quiet imo.

I agree with this.

Plus it's an awful burden to put on his daughters.

Inkanta totally agree. He's so manipulative.

Hes got so much money, fly to Barbados and take a long holiday.

He's got absolutely no remorse at all.

Unfortunately, that manipulation technique is very common. It is insulting to people who are genuinely in a dark place and do not have a voice and a platform. Frankly, whether it is PS or a royal family member with access to a gazillion therapies, luxury villas and all that, is it really credible? He may not be happy that his career has ended at 61 because he was hoping to do a Brucie or Len Goodman. But may people in many walks of life retire at that age for various reasons including ill health. He should just disappear to his life of luxury. he is lucky to have good health, an unbeliveably supportive doormat wife and will probably be a grandad soon. He has the perfect John Lewis advert life on the surface whatever is rotting away under the glossy exterior.

I saw on BBC Breakfast I had to stop watching it was just cringeworthy and he's such a pathetic character who is such a liar!

I really didn't want to get drawn into watching this saga, however a clip is currently airing on BBC Breakfast. He is so gross and desperately trying to save himself, yet he caused all of this. Disgusting man.

"I'm unaware of any of that, I just see angry people who are not on the show anymore".

Her doesn't know because his sort of person doesn't notice the pain they cause when they are so callous.

Yes it's on again I've watched something on record and bbc breakfast is showing it again !