Philip Schofield interview on BBC News/iplayer now.

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Anyone else watching?

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

The vape is nothing more than a prop. He's trying to seem relatable but the vast majority of vape users are are teenagers. He's a grotesque little lying creep.

It's that Peter Pan complex, Michael Jackson displayed it as well. They possibly feel like peers to much younger people which is how they justify their actions in their own heads. There is also the sinister element of spending so much time around younger partners by mirroring and mimicking their mannerisms to get them to be regarded as a peer rather than a dirty old man.

@EsmaCannonball spot on

Also those saying re older relationships with men and women. My dad met an 18 year old at 35 and married her and had children, she was from a traditional British Cypriot family. Years later she said she’d felt the relationship was sort of wrong re power as my dad had been married twice before with 3 kids and a drink problem, but he told her all this

A teen who is madly in love isnt going to hear it though. Thats the problem.

Did he do these interviews for free do you think? Part of me does feel the public and media have been relentless, he las lost everything so what more do they want unless there is more to come. And yes he should be able to respond to the rumours by giving his side of the events .But we won't know the truth until MM gives his side. I do think the media have been vicious and wonder so they want to send him over the edge? He is human.and this would effect anyon. It's the same with Holly, you can also see people gunning for her and wanting her lose everything.
However, the interview seemed very well rehearsed, almost 'I'm very sorry but........, It was my fault but...... Even the comment about his marriage not being good right now, but then adding that she wished me well today. So basically if my wife can forgive me surely everyone else can. He was apologetic but seemed to excuse his behaviour, he definitely is trying to show himself as the victim. But if he didn't think it was wrong, why the big secret! Then he seemed to blame the reaction due to homophobia. I get the feeling he will definitely try and make a comeback, he needs to feed his ego. I felt sorry for him, but I don't think his apology is sincere.

Yes, it seems he likes to present as a peer to much younger people.

Both himself and his brother present the same way. I wonder if there is a back story. Michael Jackson denied it unto death even though his cleaners are on record for saying that he would sleep with groups of boys in a special bedroom like a kiddie sleepover and she would be emptying bins full of jizzy tissues every morning. PS' West London shag pad isn't much different. It is well known that he picked up many boys he met on social media, not just this one.

Any proof of the many boys?

I watched the programme today and the swerve about other relationships caught my attention too.
I thought this young guy was his first relationship after realising he was gay. Was that not the case?

Yes the bloke should have pushed him on that. Fine the interview wasn't about past relationships but it was very relevant when he implied the runner was his first after becoming horribly confused about his sexuality. Well how come everyone in the business apparently knew he'd been gay for years then?

Fine the interview wasn't about past relationships but it was very relevant when he implied the runner was his first after becoming horribly confused about his sexuality. Well how come everyone in the business apparently knew he'd been gay for years then?

My thoughts exactly.

That's why I'm very cynical about the whole 'coming out' thing.

I thought it was more of a platform than an interview. AR really didn't explore anything that PS didn't want to push as his narrative (I am so persecuted/ misunderstood, you are making me suicidal, I didn't do anything illegal, I told one little lie and made one mistake but I accept that my friends have now cut me out of their lives, I am like that famous person you all hounded, look at me wearing a hair shirt but not really). It was poor.

Amol has said that he didn't feel he could push too hard after PS said he was suicidal

Because it's no one's business who consenting adults have sex with. It's irrelevant.

Because it's no one's business who consenting adults have sex with. It's irrelevan

The narrative floating around at the time of him coming out on TV was that he jumped before he was pushed. That it was really to deflect from a much more damaging story ( such as this ).

The narrative his interview fed was that he was in ( secret ) turmoil about his sexuality, came out and had this unfortunate fling.

If he's been ( secretly but not ) out for years that kind of all falls down.

So yes, it is relevant if he's had other same sex relationships. Don't care to know with who.

Because it's no one's business who consenting adults have sex with. It's irrelevant.

Its absolutely relevant. In the interview Phil painted it to be as if this was his sexuality bursting after repressing his whole life and he suddenly realised his attraction to this guy.

There are so many loose ends with this story, the interview was terrible for Phil

And the whole coming out on TV business- that was supposedly because he recently realised he's gay.

Makes it seem rather contrived if he randomly decided to come out after being gay for some time...

Makes it seem rather contrived if he randomly decided to come out after being gay for some time...

exactly

So it works as a strategy.

Surely it makes sense that he may have been out to certain people but not the wider public. That's fine and not really anyone else's business tbh.

The amount of ownership the general public seem to think they have over the personal lives of celebrities is grim.

*Surely it makes sense that he may have been out to certain people but not the wider public. That's fine and not really anyone else's business tbh.

The amount of ownership the general public seem to think they have over the personal lives of celebrities is grim.*

I think the 'ownership' might have been precipitated by the massive coming out live on national TV......

Nope don't call that very personal.

ITV are also doing a lot of damage limitation. Saying he resigned - well actually if that was true, and everyone believed he hadn't done anything wrong surely they would have said - you've had a tough few months, take an extended summer holiday and we'll see you back in September. Martin Frizzell has been spouting off blaming ex employees of making it worse. So why did they cut off Joan Collins when she said she thought everyone knew he was gay.
He also went from weepy - to arrogant when he was asked if he had any previous BF's said that was not up for discussion.

Not any one else's business....

He certainly made it everyone's business.

Ah that's why he has been sacked and keeps making grovelling statements and a silly melodramatic pity party interview as its 'no one else's business. Got it.

Yes a melodramtic pity party is what I witnessed there. Not an adult man taking responsibility and shouldering the consequences after having deceived, used and mistreated various people.