Schofield drama

[LemonSwan]

I am questioning my reading comprehension here or just being an idiot. I do apologise because this is the ten millionth thread, and there’s still thousands or articles but having skimmed a dozen or so I am still none the wiser.

YABU - We do know what’s happened here and OP can’t read.
YANBU - No one has a clue what’s happened.

Why not try a newspaper, tabloid or broadsheet? I suspect even the Guardian have covered it.

Long story short. He's had an inappropriate relationship with a young man who he befriended when the young man was 12.

He eventually got the young man a job as a runner on TM, but things turned nasty when PS wasn't wanting the young man any more.

How old the lad was when it became sexual / rape isn't known (at least by me), either way, his behaviour is reprehensible. He groomed the lad.

News of this started to emerge at the end of 2019. The press were going to run it, but PS got an injunction and cut a deal for his coming out as gay story, hence a flurry of other stories in the media about bad blood between presenters, claims of bullying of production staff. As the press couldn't report on the actual story. But they did run this story.

Holly changed management company last year, as she was on the same books as PS and obviously knows the shit will eventually hit the fan.

Queuegate and PS brother's crimes / PS not reporting brother have kept PS in the papers. The mask has started to slip and the public is wising up.

The injunction is due to expire soon. The Daily Fail ran this story last week. Which is a rehash of the 2019 story. The papers are just massively hinting about what they can't report on. Yet.

My understanding is that people are intimating that he groomed and sexually abused at least one young boy and that this boy - now a young adult - was going to expose him a few year ago in the papers.

The same people then intimate that there is some kind of gagging order on this young man speaking to the papers, and that PS coming out a few years ago was linked to this in some way.

The same people then say that the gagging order or whatever it is is due to come to an end this summer and PS will be exposed in the papers.

These people who talk about this stuff say that some people stood by PS despite knowing this, including his Co presenter HW and that they are now distancing themselves to protect themselves from the falllout.

Other rumours are that Ruth Langsford put in a complaint re: PS (not sure if this was about the rumours or something else) and lost her job on the show.

The young man apparently worked for This Morning so it would make sense that a lot of colleagues possibly knew something or other.

Allegedly,

Google Katie Hopkins on Phillip Schofield.

No matter how much I can't stand PS, I can't bring myself to Google Katie Hopkins.

Ok Thankyou all. Clear and concise!

If that’s injuctioned do I need to report this thread now!!?!?

And in 1978 people didn't want to listen to Jonny Rotten either.

No idea. Social media is a grey area. I believe that those who requested the injunction can pursue to sue those they feel in breach on social media, but they have to get the social media platform to release details of posters and the accounts may not have the posters' real details anyway.

Injunctions are weird things, nobody ever knows if it is a molehill or mountain being covered up.

But how are we supposed to know whats injuctioned if it’s injuctioned.

Well I self reported as I have no idea so MN can do as they see fit

It's just all so ridiculous.
So many people claiming things as fact that may or may not be true

I understood that an injunction was threatened but not applied for. The Sun blackmailed him into coming out and 'softened' it when he agreed to give an exclusive interview. The young guy was trying to sell a story to the papers.

Hi there.

Big fan of PS and oh, such a shame to see all the fuss. But deffo agreed, certainly one suspects some degree of gagging going on given the alleged circumstances.

Neither for or against PS but the media witch hunt is appalling. Someone up thread using the term rape.

He sounds like a pathetic man who lived a double life and was nasty at work, hence the glee at his downfall. But whether he has groomed anyone or committed a crime is yet to be established

The witch-hunt going on is disgraceful.

HW is bleating about being disappointed etc but I knew this story and I am not even particularly interested, so I don’t believe HW and everyone else was in the dark.

Apparently he and the young man denied they were in a relationship.

It's all unpleasant but he's not Saville for goodness sake.

Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

Not saying it's not all true. But I dont know, and neither does anyone else here.

"Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?" springs to mind.

He admitted it. The lad got too old and was ditched.

Not sure if I'm missing something here. Obviously not good that PS was cheating on his wife, but that's their business really not illegal or the general public's. He didn't have relationships with the boy until he was in his late teens and consensual did he? Which seems very extreme to be sacked over, unless it comes out differently that it started much younger. Which especially in context of what his brother's done too, isn't going to go down at all well.

Why does British TV recycle the same faces? It’s disgusting to see the same faces over and over again on TV. Any and Dec. This man and Holly. The other one from Strictly.

Why not give young fresh talent a chance? So glad I don’t watch ordinary TV.

Even Eamonn had a pillow face, I would rather see wrinkles and a moving face.