Philip schofields wife

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I watched some of his documentary and was thinking it would be interesting if his wife or even the guy he had an affair with gave their side of the story on a island in Madagascar !.His wife and daughters look really close with him which seems really odd given the fact he hugely betrayed them ,or maybe they already knew he was gay ?

Absolutely nobody knows the details of their marriage/family. For all we know his wife might have been fine with it!

Fine with him chasing after a teenager?

From seeing the rage and ire he directs at people about everything and his total martyrdom, I fully believe there's some form of Stockholm syndrome going on for them, where they've has a life totally centred on him and his needs.

Yes this is my guess. He's the main source of ££ and is also an expert manipulator.

People can perform for TV. The reality of how the family feel behind closed doors may be quite different

I mean, I wouldn't hate my Dad if he was gay? What's wrong with you?!

Its obviously not the gay thing that's an issue.

He cheated while married. And chased after a teenage boy and got him a job and then began an affair with him.

The gay thing is a red herring. It's the cheating and the predatory nature of it that surely were awful for his family

Who -other than you @PicturePlace has mentioned hate?? Oh wait! Look!! A squirrel!!!

I don't think anyone is entitled to know what's going on in his wife's head. Leave her alone.

Unless he put her under tremendous pressure to be on the show, then she willingly chose to be on it though?

The bits I saw of him on the island (which admittedly was via gogglebox as I wouldn’t soil my eyes watching him intentionally) confirmed he is a self obsessed selfish old twat with no remorse or insight to his actions.
Another lying cheating man abusing his position of power.
Hopefully he won’t get any further work in tv.
Who knows why his wife has supported him or even if she has. She might just be trying to keep things quiet so that her children don’t have to face anymore drama.

I’m sure his wife was aware of his sexuality, even if she didn’t know at first. His daughters are supportive, one is his manager now. They’ve obviously found a way of life that works for them. None of us know what really goes on in another person’s marriage.

He's a complete narcissist. I doubt he's even gay, I suspect he's bisexual but that wouldn't get the same sympathy would it because there's no reason to cheat on your wife if you're 'just' bisexual. Doesn't sound like quite the same self pitying excuse.

I don't know why people think that his wife must have known. I was married to a covert narc for 25 years and didn't know he was bi and a cheat until he told me - it was of course some how all my fault apparently. The lying, gas lighting and manipulation will have been huge.

I expect he has manipulated his wife and daughters into their supportive roles with more lies, gas lighting and probably financial incentives. He will go to any lengths to make sure it looks like he is somehow a victim in all this and to keep a positive image and keep the attention coming in.

@PicturePlace My friend hates his Dad. Not because he's gay, but because he hid it until his kids were in their teens, meanwhile having multiple affairs. He hates him because he betrayed them all, lied to them all, broke their hearts and then broke their family.

He’s awful. I only saw the clips on gogglebox. Struggled to get past his daughter trying to protect and rescue him from wanting to kill himself. Surely, unless you were really mentally unwell, you would protect your children from your suicidal feelings.

They worked together before marriage so of course she knew he was gay. Marriage and children suited them both, hence why they're still friendly.

Friend of the family are you?

Professionally, PS surrounds himself with a very tight team of yes people who enable him to behave the way he does by protecting and validating him. I wouldn't be surprised if that includes his family, but I also wouldn't be surprised if his stoical wife is very much Gritting Her Teeth for the sake of her kids.

I find his message that he decided not to take his own life because his daughter told him not to, v difficult. Having sadly had experience of this, I wish that 'talking' or being able to stop someone from taking their own life because you have told them how much it would hurt you can prevent it. It can't and it doesn't.

I don't know. I wish he would not frame it in those terms. It has nothing to do with how much you are loved or needed. A truly suicidal person knows that. In fact, they know it so well, they would not burden their child with their intentions.

I mean obviously, I am VERY glad he did not take his own life, but I find the way he talks about it and involves his daughter, really unhelpful and upsetting in the whole mental health narrative.

I don’t disagree with what you’ve said but how is him being gay a red herring?

🙌 Repulsive man

Because that's not the reason people are appalled by his behaviour. I don't think anyone would have even blinked if he'd left his wife and then later met a nice man* and got together with him.

*Man, not boy

Yes it's not about him being gay.
It's the going with a teenager. Stick to your own age FFS, just another creep

I think it's quite a strange situation, especially for his wife to still be as close as she is - pictured out with him on nights out etc.

Wonder if it's one of those things that's fine while nothing has actually changed (except his job loss of course), but may become difficult if he was to start seeing somebody else?

At the moment he's said he's gay but aside from his time with that young man - which his family likely already knew about ahead of his coming out moment on This Morning - nothing has seemingly changed much. But I assume he does want it to otherwise he wouldn't have come out.

The gay thing is a red herring. It's the cheating and the predatory nature of it that surely were awful for his family

Yes and so public too, very embarrassing for his daughters I'd imagine.

The problem was him having affair using his power and position. The fact that it was a gay affair attracted a bit more attention as he was married to a woman but the main problem was not in this.
If it was an affair with a young girl the consequences should have been the same imo.

Maybe she knew, or suspected, all along and they had an “arrangement”.

Maybe she despises him deep down, but doesn’t particularly want any more of her dirty linen washed in public, so is staying well away from “tell all” interviews or having her “dating journey” filmed.

Maybe she’s been made a very wealthy woman in return for keeping her gob shut and sticking to the “He’s still my best friend” line.

Although most likely, I think it’s been an incredibly difficult few years, but they’ve worked issues through in private, and have kept up the happy families image in public to give themselves that time. Maybe what we see now is genuine - we just haven’t seen the rows and tears and yelling that led to this point.