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Holly willoboughly

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midnightblue12 · 27/05/2023 21:03

Ok I know I've spelt her surname wrong... but here we are. We all know who I'm talking about!

I just don't understand why social media has turned on her, almost blaiming her for allowing Phillip S antics to go on?

Why is she responsible for his actions????

And for those saying "she must've known"... maybe she didn't! Maybe she kept out of it or maybe she didn't know the full one and puts.
Why so she being Blaine's. Am I missing something??!

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GreenPinkBlue · 27/05/2023 22:42

Throw away her career and ability to feed her kids?
She would hardly have been on the breadline Ffs.
As Eamonn said, she used Philip when it suited her to further her career. Rylan, Eamonn and Ruth left. Why didn’t she?
She’s not responsible for Philip’s behaviour, but she did absolutely benefit from turning a blind eye (and frankly, that take on it us being generous).

Mrsjayy · 27/05/2023 22:44

Mirabai · 27/05/2023 22:25

How much does anyone know about what their work colleagues are doing in the privacy of their bedrooms? She will have heard all the rumours, she asked him directly, he lied. How likely is he to have told the truth in the circs? Even if she suspected it wasn’t true what proof would she have? What choice does she have but to carry on? Unless you think a woman should resign and lose her job over a man’s possible affair.

Holly and phill went on holiday together drank and partied together he was his female BFF they were not just workmates, I'm not saying HW is to blame for anything as I said before it's all on him, but she was complacent in his behaviour towards others, maybe she isn't all moonbeams and unicorns and got the fright if her life that she might be tarnished and outed as a not particularly nice person, I mean that will affect her brand.

Mrsjayy · 27/05/2023 22:44

She was*

GreenPinkBlue · 27/05/2023 22:45

And her statement makes her sound like she thinks she’s a victim. She’s not, the young man was the victim.
Reputation protection only - but I can’t see it will work. The scales have fallen from people’s eyes now.

curtainsfringe · 27/05/2023 22:45

Because her and Schofield came across as a friendly couple on TV people think they must have been best friends in real life, always spending time with each other, at each others houses etc. When in reality it's a job, they probably turned up to work, spoke briefly to each other before the show started, did their job, and then went home to do their own thing. The same as most TV presenter duos.

Wasn't their whole schtick about being best friends?

Pineappleelephant · 27/05/2023 22:47

She's just protecting her brand. She probably knew as probably his wife did too. Neither wanted to lose their positions or money.

curtainsfringe · 27/05/2023 22:47

Didn't Philip only came out because of the threat of the affair! I'm not sure how someone can say they had no idea.

Florenz · 27/05/2023 22:47

To be honest, it might be time that daytime TV was axed in general. Or at least drastically scaled back, just show repeats of old programmes or something. It's unhealthy that people are sat around wondering about the private lives of people that earn ridiculous amounts of money for sat around talking about minutiae in the daytime when most people are working hard for a lot less.

BillyNighysWife · 27/05/2023 22:47

Why so she being Blaine's

@midnightblue12

what?

Ecclescakeyum · 27/05/2023 22:48

RudsyFarmer · 27/05/2023 21:16

The person was young? But how young? Men have affairs with young women all the time.

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HadleyVaughn · 27/05/2023 22:49

Where to start.

  1. Personally I don't believe that she didn't know. Because I knew, the internet knew. ITV had an investigation in 2020!!! So I don't believe her statement.
  2. Even assuming you take her statement at face value (which personally I just don't believe, but assuming you do), it is off the scale Nelsonian blindness.
  3. Just my opinion but she now looks like a nasty self interested hypocritc. To go from this ultra-chummy my best friend, I will stand by you through thick and thin to nothing to do with me guv in the blink of an eye is shoddy and really hypocritical. She could have stayed silent but no - pile on in there with the 'he lied to me' to scramble to save her space in the spotlight.
  4. Dan Wooton has said in terms he told ITV. How likely is it that the co-presenter - the centre of this show - knew nothing. Really?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12131515/DAN-WOOTTON-told-ITV-Schofields-affair-2019-followed-looks-like-cover-up.html 5.People who turn a blind eye are complict. Whilst they are not as culpable as the wrong doer obviously, they enable behaviour. To suggest this is people blaming a woman for a man's behaviour is nonsense, it's a different issue. The same applies to the management at ITV who knew. They were all choosing to support their own cash cow when it suited them.

So you put it all together and you have someone deeply self interested, with no integrity. & depending on whether you believe the statement or not and where you are opinion wise - either a cynical Nelsonian blindness or a liar.

DAN WOOTTON: I told ITV about Phillip Schofield's affair in 2019

DAN WOOTTON: An ITV spokeswoman ended up dismissing my 2019 story, saying: 'It's deeply disappointing and unfair for Phillip to be the target of this sort of malicious gossip.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12131515/DAN-WOOTTON-told-ITV-Schofields-affair-2019-followed-looks-like-cover-up.html

coeurnoir · 27/05/2023 22:51

A friend of mine knew about him and his tastes 30-odd years ago as they both worked at the BBC.

Talia99 · 27/05/2023 22:52

Florenz · 27/05/2023 22:13

Because her and Schofield came across as a friendly couple on TV people think they must have been best friends in real life, always spending time with each other, at each others houses etc. When in reality it's a job, they probably turned up to work, spoke briefly to each other before the show started, did their job, and then went home to do their own thing. The same as most TV presenter duos.

Except they made a big thing of being ‘best friends in real life’. They talked about always being in each other’s houses, going on holiday together etc. Phillip described Holly as ‘my rock’.

The reason we all think they were doing all the things you’ve listed is because they’ve spent years telling us they were. At length.

Mulhollandmagoo · 27/05/2023 22:53

I don't know, but I bet Dermott and Alison are absolutely cringing over that gushing speech they did about schofe last week 🥴 they've been made to look really daft by ITV!

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 27/05/2023 22:53

Highly likely that she knew, and no doubt knows about all the other skeletons about to come marching out..

It's all about damage limitation.

misslooloo · 27/05/2023 22:57

What he has been up to has been common knowledge for months. Years.

Holly is either a liar or a fool.

Romeiswheretheheartis · 27/05/2023 22:58

Florenz · 27/05/2023 22:13

Because her and Schofield came across as a friendly couple on TV people think they must have been best friends in real life, always spending time with each other, at each others houses etc. When in reality it's a job, they probably turned up to work, spoke briefly to each other before the show started, did their job, and then went home to do their own thing. The same as most TV presenter duos.

They holidayed together with their families, they very much did socialise together - they made a big thing of it.

HW only got the job on TM because PS insisted on it - no one else wanted it to be her, she's openly said that in interviews. So she owed him massively. I think he deliberately chose her knowing she was either ruthlessly ambitious enough, or dumb enough, to keep schtum about what he was up to. Which she did. I've worked closely with someone who was having an affair with a colleague - it's pretty much impossible not to see what's going on.

Sarahtm35 · 27/05/2023 22:59

Statistically everyone knows at least one pervert but we can’t all be blamed for the actions of perverts. Clearly PS kept it discreet and perhaps she had an inkling but she has a career and family and probably felt it wasn’t her place to intervene. He wasn’t a minor anyway.
PS clearly said in his coming out interview that there was “never any secrets” between him and his wife. His wife knew he was sexually attracted to men. He helped put a nice roof over her head, kept her company. A lot of women turn a blind eye to their husbands misdemeanours if it means keeping up appearances. I don’t like PS and I agree with people who says he’s a pervert but I don’t agree with any blame being laid on Holly.

HadleyVaughn · 27/05/2023 22:59

Because her and Schofield came across as a friendly couple on TV people think they must have been best friends in real life, always spending time with each other, at each others houses etc. When in reality it's a job, they probably turned up to work, spoke briefly to each other before the show started, did their job, and then went home to do their own thing. The same as most TV presenter duos.

They made a big thing of their friendship. They used to go on holiday together WITH THEIR FAMILIES every year
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/holly-willoughby-phillip-schofield-cancel-29969350

& watch that video when he comes out as gay which was in 2020 - Willoughby interviews him about it on This Morning, telling him: "I will be by your side forever." This was never just a work relationship - they were close friends and made a big thing about it. Except now it's less convenient for some people.

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield 'cancel joint annual holidays amid feud'

Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby usually enjoy annual holidays together but they've reportedly cancelled after he released a shock statement that seemingly confirmed they haven't been seeing eye to eye

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/holly-willoughby-phillip-schofield-cancel-29969350

CantFindTheBeat · 27/05/2023 23:00

Mulhollandmagoo · 27/05/2023 22:53

I don't know, but I bet Dermott and Alison are absolutely cringing over that gushing speech they did about schofe last week 🥴 they've been made to look really daft by ITV!

They have.

But again, complicit,
They will have been more than aware of concerns, and at a minimum, rumblings and sub currents.

RudsyFarmer · 27/05/2023 23:03

Ecclescakeyum · 27/05/2023 22:48

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i think you are being disingenuous with that answer. When they embarked on a sexual relationship how old was the ‘friend’?

Mirabai · 27/05/2023 23:07

Mrsjayy · 27/05/2023 22:44

Holly and phill went on holiday together drank and partied together he was his female BFF they were not just workmates, I'm not saying HW is to blame for anything as I said before it's all on him, but she was complacent in his behaviour towards others, maybe she isn't all moonbeams and unicorns and got the fright if her life that she might be tarnished and outed as a not particularly nice person, I mean that will affect her brand.

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It makes no odds, a work colleague and friend is having an affair with a much younger guy in the office, when you know their wife, do you really think they would be likely to tell you? You’d hear the same rumours as everyone else but you wouldn’t know for sure.

Mirabai · 27/05/2023 23:10

I just think people here should be honest. She’s pretty, very wealthy, she gets up your nose, and that’s why you want to smear her with PS’s sins. It’s schadenfreude pretending to be ethics and it’s really hypocritical.

I highly doubt she knew for sure, because no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors in the relationships of even the closest of friends.

And if she did suspect he was lying to her what could she actually do about it?

Mrsjayy · 27/05/2023 23:12

Ah so we are jealous of course that is it how silly of us 😂

HadleyVaughn · 27/05/2023 23:13

And if she did suspect he was lying to her what could she actually do about it?

Most importantly not be all 'he's my best friend', distance herself, not go on holiday with him, but she wasn't going to do that because it was the core of her brand with him.

Or of course, consider resigning or getting another job .