How is Huw Edwards different to Philip Schofield

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Heard this question raised on LBC this morning and was wondering the same thing.

How are the two any different? Both older men engaged with younger men, both cheating on their wives, and both claiming mental health issues post revelation.

He isn't, they are both repugnant

I agree.

Do we know it's definitely younger men with HE? Some people have assumed the young person with HE is female - which is making me wonder if PS's accusations of homophobia being involved with his case (which I previously thought was rubbish) might be correct.

It does feel to me that people are reacting differently to this one, more anxious to forgive, and I'm not sure why.

Was it a young man i thought it was a young woman.Not that is matters they are both disgusting although phillip schofield had sex multiple times I do think he is more repugnant, but it is just all sleaze.

I don’t think he is different. There may not have been any illegalities but they are both older men, in a position of power, seeking to utilise a young person. It would be exactly the same whether the young person was male or female. It’s morally reprehensible.

I think it's partly because Huw Edwards is generally more respected, has always done a wonderful job, while Schofield's popularity took a dip recently due to the queue jumping (🙄)

Yeah Huw seems to be a saint and I everyone is beckoning for him to be left alone due to his
Mental health.

Phil has been fair game for the nation.

I guess huw paid for pictures, but is that all??

Phil worked with his 'love interest', so a powerful presenter next to a newbie in the workplace definately smacks of abusing his power right under his colleagues noses.

Did huw meet with his interest?

Huw Edwards is not claiming mental health conditions post revelation, OP. He has a long history.

FWIW though, I agree that there seems to be a weird discrepancy.

I think with Phil there were a lot of other whisperings about bullying and toxicity in the workplace as well as what he did.

Philip Scofield was a well known personality that people felt they had engaged with.

Huw Edwards is not in any sense a personality, and no one has engaged with him. He is just a face that reads a script. No one feels they have any sort of relationship or engagement with him not even a media relationship. He isn't really a "household" name" - he was certainly never ever named in our household, until yesterday, whereas Scofield might have been mentioned occasionally - maybe less than once a year, but still, a big difference between him and HE, who we would never ever have had any occasion to mention.

Does anyone apart from Huw Edwards and his associates know what actually happened?

I think the difference may be the way the interactions were sought, and therefore the predatory creep factor?

PS knew the young person from an even younger age, offered opportunities, took advantage of his power.

HE went on only fans (I believe) we're the service was being offered before he got involved. Took advantage in a different way. Also presumably thought the young person was 18+ as OnlyFans is presumably verifying this of their users?

Still both vile, so depressing that men will just do this when they have the chance.

This entirely

HE had spoken thoughtfully and at length about his mental health before.
There's been published to suggest anything illegal happened- inappropriate texts and even the lock down meet up is a stretch to get aerated about, “The young person told The Sun: "He came round for an hour…. We just chatted. He was obsessed with me making him a cup of tea.””

Philip Schofield used his position as a TV personality to sell other products, he has tie ins with a gin business, wine, advertised a car dealership. I’m not aware of Huw Edwards doing so, are you even allowed to endorse products as a news reader?

Did HE ever actually meet any of these people? If he found them on onlyfans had they said they were 18? PS knew the boy from a young age and got him a job + lied about it - and did have a ‘physical relationship’ with him. PS actions seem considerably worse imo.

To me there's no difference.

The main difference is that he allegation against Philip Schofield was that he had groomed somebody who was 13-14 at the point he contacted them, whereas Huw seems to have contacted somebody over 18. I appreciate the 13/14 story turns out to have been untrue, but I think that was what got people fired up. Plus of course PS’a victim was a work colleague, HE‘s is a random person on the internet, and obviously an employer is going to view those two things differently.

Both sleazy though.

I think they both did something wrong and there definitely has a creepiness to both cases (much older man much younger counterpart) but nothing necessarily illegal, the younger person seems to be consenting in both cases, although I clearly don’t know the whole facts and you can’t deny how they would have both felt pressure from the older and more famous face.
It feels important to say it’s nothing that men don’t do to young women frequently. The out cry does seem homophobic.

A workplace affair between someone with a lot of power and a very junior member of staff (who got the job in part because of the relationship he had with him) is different to something in someone's private life.

Of course, more may come from the allegations of Edwards' inappropriate behaviour towards junior staff members.

They are both repugnant sleaze balls who targeted young vulnerable teenagers. That's the problem. If it had been mature adults sending dirty pictures for money far less people would care.
There is something very sinister and unpleasant about men in their 60s wanting to look at barely legal girls/boys in sexual poses 😡😡

Yes this, there was the toxic work place allegations and phillip schofield is allegedly just a rude horrible man so there is a lot more to phillip Schofield.

He worked with some of the people who are now accusing him of sexual harassment. He also met one other young person he met on a dating app during lockdown. We don’t know if he ever met the teenager with the crack addiction, but they had a digital relationship for 3 years. I think it’s looking pretty bad for Huw too.

I believe that so far, one person has said that they did meet Edwards in person once (the story about him breaking lockdown rules) but that nothing happened between them.

Huw Edwards was generally liked by his co-workers who are genuinely shocked.

Phil Schofield had a reputation in the industry as being loathsome. It wasn't a shock.

Huw Edwards was the face of the BBC. Schofield was important to ITV but not to the same degree.

I understand it that Philip's was seen as grooming a younger colleague.
Huw went online and contacted someone via a website who was open to being contacted