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Sorry, another Philip Schofield one...

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UnaCorda · 08/02/2020 20:20

I really couldn't care less about Philip Schofield's sexuality (or anyone else's) and good for him for finally being true to himself. But what makes me quite cross is all this talk of honesty and bravery, and the self-indulgent, tortured confessional in front of the nation when really it's of no importance to anyone who doesn't know him personally.

In the clip of his chat with Holly he asks repeatedly, "When is the right time?" In my opinion, the right time is before you get married to someone who believes you are straight. It's not brave, or honest, to make someone unwittingly provide you with the benefits of a heterosexual relationship, including children, so you can be viewed by the public as a "respectable family man". It's actually rather selfish.

I had a brief relationship with someone who I later discovered was gay. He didn't even have the balls to tell me directly, and it seriously screwed me up for a long time. I can't imagine what it must be like to find out your husband of 27 years is homosexual.

I'm not gay, so perhaps I am being unreasonable as I don't know what it is like to come out to friends and family (although I imagine it is easier now than it was thirty years ago) and I don't know whether PS really believed that he was in love with his wife when they got married. But I do think that leaving a duplicitous life which affects other people is not a kind or honourable thing to do and I feel very sorry for his wife and daughters who I think really have been brave.

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CantSayJack · 10/02/2020 22:03

Did anyone watch the GMB interview with Joan Collins and Perez Hilton this morning?

That’s a whole thread of its own! Gotta hand it to Joan 😂😂😂

Dowser · 10/02/2020 22:03

Or Ex PM David Cameron.... still getting a budget flight for his jolly holidays lol

Pomegranatepompom · 10/02/2020 22:04

Wonder how long this thread will stay.

I knew a BBC Voice over man who said he knew PS intimately in 1993.

I'd forgotten about it, generally avoid any tv PS is in, find him intensely irritating.

Dowser · 10/02/2020 22:04

Saw a snippet..Good old Joanie..always liked her

Dowser · 10/02/2020 22:05

Intimately being the operative word here pomegranate

Expo · 10/02/2020 22:07

Joan is a legend. Doesn’t need ITV money

Dowser · 10/02/2020 22:08

Well there’s always here pomegranate if it does
Now up to number three
tattle.life/threads/phillip-schofield-3-dancing-on-thin-ice.4699/

HeIenaDove · 10/02/2020 22:08

@Dowser hes been kicked of Twitter

Dowser · 10/02/2020 22:08

Yes he’s going to release on youtube

CantSayJack · 10/02/2020 22:08

Well JC certainly had bigger balls than whiny Piers, what a hypocrite!

Pomegranatepompom · 10/02/2020 22:12

I'm still astounded ITV? Holly et al think they can pull this off.

TheLionInside · 10/02/2020 22:18

I think Holly will rue the day she did that interview.

Bluntness100 · 10/02/2020 22:20

If any shit hits the fan holly will simply not comment, and she will do as her bosses tell her at itv. They will all do as they are told and keep schtum.

CantSayJack · 10/02/2020 22:21

The problem at ITV is that they employ the same group of people over and over who share the same agents, have relationships, it’s all a bit weird. What you are left with is egotistical maniacs who believe they are above anyone or anything.
Serves ITV right when it all comes crashing down.... and it will.

Pomegranatepompom · 10/02/2020 22:23

Aside from the allegations, it's all quite eyeopening. I always found H and P irritating with no obvious talent apart from smugness and giggling, couldn't fathom why they were so popular !

CaveMum · 10/02/2020 22:27

I saw a cracking tweet earlier about Joan Collins’ comments:

“Joan Collins is trending.

She's not dead, but she has committed cold-blooded murder on a carefully crafted PR campaign.”

Riv12345 · 10/02/2020 22:29

I am sorry I didn't mean my comment to come across like that.

I first believe that mrs Schofield must of know that Philip was gay many years ago surely?
And she stuck by him, I also think that Philip is so lucky for his wife to stand by him, she has kept the family together and the two daughters love him no matter what , and so they should at the end of the day he is still a dad and a husband, I think he is such a lucky man to have such a wonderful loving family that is still going to be behind him and support anything he decide.
I still think that Steph was be a little bit heart broken tho I know I would be.
But we can't help who we full in love with xx

SisterAgatha · 10/02/2020 22:39

I don’t think Holly gives a crap, she was hamming her way through that interview trying to get max feels out of it. Head on shoulder, poor brave Phillip, can’t help who he is, not his fault he’s been banging a runner, silently wipes a tear away for how hard this must have been for him.

Fuck off Holls.

Chipstick10 · 10/02/2020 22:45

Anne thanks for that. It makes his deception worse IMO

Coniferhedge · 10/02/2020 22:48

To think PS only got the job on TM because of John Leslie’s fall from grace and subsequent sacking from TM. PS might go the same way. Actually, I noticed that Fern Britton hasn’t joined the hoardes of celebrities congratulating PS on his ‘bravery’. It could be argued that she, understandably, has other things on her mind with losing her Dad and her current divorce but she has been tweeting about other things.

Chipstick10 · 10/02/2020 22:51

Fern has the measure of Schofe

Riv12345 · 10/02/2020 22:56

Why the sudden announcement tho???

HeIenaDove · 10/02/2020 22:56

I like both Fernes Britton and Cotton. Is the latter still friends with Holly?

Riv12345 · 10/02/2020 23:01

Helena

I wondered that-
Holly and fern use to be so close.
Then fern decided to leave that Keith lemon show.
There instagrams are so different.
Holly is very showbis and fern unfortunately has been struggling with anxiety etc

Moomin12345 · 10/02/2020 23:04

Poor wife. Wasted 27 years... Hmm nothing wrong with being gay, the gloating victim mentality on the other hand... Hmm

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