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Dan Wootton is a prick

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bitzermaloney23 · 02/06/2023 22:41

Lots of threads on PS at the moment but I'd like to look a bit more closely at Dan Wootton the so called celebrity expert who is literally salivating over the Holly and Phil controversy. This is the man who writes horrible vitriol about celebrities daily. He stuck the knife into Caroline flack repeatedly. I'm not defending Phil, he's done wrong and the whole culture at ITV seems toxic but seriously? Is this ok? Do these people honestly want to push people to the very brink with their witch hunts?

I like Eamon Holmes and I think he has a relevant point to make but pairing up with Dan is just awful and cheap. Dan actually interviewed Kerry Katona recently who made many references to Caroline Flack (in a positive light) and Dan just sat there utterly barefaced as if he wasn't part of the media circus that pushed her to suicide.

It really seems like they won't be happy until Phil does something to harm himself at which point he'll probably change his tune and talk about what a great bloke he is. Utter utter scum.

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Venndiagrammy · 03/06/2023 09:18

IncomingTraffic · 03/06/2023 09:15

If you object to your daughter’s suicide being discussed in the media… going on newsnight to discuss how terribly ITV are treating schofield isn’t exactly helping. Is it?

Of course it is, ITV let her daughter down and its finally getting sunlight as to how toxic it is. I don't mean just PS mentioning it in his so sad vape interview, but plenty of the 'be kind' brigade.

AConstantGreyInTheClouds · 03/06/2023 09:19

Imagine there's still people who think that was a genuine relationship and not a PR stunt ordered as part of the big Cowell money making machine.

I wouldn’t call it a relationship. But it wasn’t a stunt.

Venndiagrammy · 03/06/2023 09:19

And it's not about being discussed, it's about people using it in the way he did.

pilates · 03/06/2023 09:19

Interesting first post on MN

I’m sure there is more to come out in the foreseeable and deflecting abhorrent behaviour is not helpful.

Jonnycat · 03/06/2023 09:21

I despise Dan Wootton, he is an absolute scumbag.

I have never trolled anyone before or since, but I admit I trolled him daily after Caroline Flack.

He is an utterly vile human being. As is, PS.

PS - How dare he bring up Caroline Flack and compare his situation to hers? WTAF.

He is trying to change the narrative by making insinuations towards suicide. Absolutely disgusting but showing who he really is. A gaslighting, manipulative, cowardly scumbag.

bitzermaloney23 · 03/06/2023 09:25

pilates · 03/06/2023 09:19

Interesting first post on MN

I’m sure there is more to come out in the foreseeable and deflecting abhorrent behaviour is not helpful.

It's not my first post. I NC regularly. I have been here for years as MNHQ can confirm.

Outing people is one thing. Of course Phil should be held accountable for his dreadful actions and prosecuted if investigations find out that a crime has been committed. But it does seem that the likes of Wootton want to push people to the absolute brink. Why? Do they genuinely want to see him hounded to death?

I mentioned Caroline Flack because in a recent interview with Kerry Katona, Dan sat there brazenly while Kerry spoke sympathetically about CF knowing that he was one of the people who stuck the knife in to her.

The man is just despicable. I'm no fan of #bekind when it's used to silence people but I'm also no fan of hounding people until they kill themselves then saying 'oh well he should have behaved better than shouldn't he'.

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Jonnycat · 03/06/2023 09:28

And going back to PS, the piece of shit threw his wife and his marriage under the bus instead of admitting a relationship with the man. Lied, lied, lied. Arsehole.

And to pull the homophobic card - NO ONE CARES!!!

Gtsr443 · 03/06/2023 09:28

IncomingTraffic · 03/06/2023 09:03

In what way is one grieving mother’s opinion on Schofield ‘pesky facts’?

A lot of people have presumed to speak on her behalf.
Now they can't because she has made it clear in a BBC interview how she feels about the way PS is being treated.

AConstantGreyInTheClouds · 03/06/2023 09:29

I don’t doubt that the culture at ITV means they have let many of their presenters and other staff down though, possibly including Flack and Schofield in some ways. That doesn’t mean Flack and Schofields behaviour wasn’t inappropriate and wrong.

Philip Schofield is bringing Caroline Flack into the discussion only to try to get others to feel sorry for him and to silence people. If he thought ITV let Caroline down, he should have made a stand at the time about it. Instead he was too busy loving how much protection he had from that inner circle. Schofield wants the press and social media off his case and will say and do anything to do that.

The fact that Flacks mum is now using this situation to have a dig at ITV doesn’t mean anything other than she believes ITV let her daughter down. She isn’t bothered about Schofield, it’s an opportunity for her to complain about ITV. As a grieving mum, that’s understandable.

Jonnycat · 03/06/2023 09:30

And to say his wife is very, very very angry - YA THINK!!!!!

OhhhhhhhhBiscuits · 03/06/2023 09:33

WoolyAndYug · 03/06/2023 08:38

I don't for a second believe it was a workplace romance which happened to have an age gap.

I'd be interested to know how many other kids who tweeted him got access to work experience at the studios and then a job? I wonder if it was only the one he ended up sleeping with.

Look up Ben Perryman. Another one who has been tweeting Schofield since a young teen and now hangs out with him all the time. MM is not the only one that this has happened to. Although BP seems to be an escort by all accounts so think he has a lot of info on people. He is also the guy that Schofield gave a reference to the courts when BP was being done for revenge porn.

AConstantGreyInTheClouds · 03/06/2023 09:34

And going back to PS, the piece of shit threw his wife and his marriage under the bus instead of admitting a relationship with the man. Lied, lied, lied. Arsehole.

In terms of his wife, the story doesn’t add up. Philip wouldn’t answer questions on previous gay relationships. Philip had had previous gay relationships whilst married. He says he hadn’t lied to his wife before. So either she knew that he was gay and had relationships or she didn’t know and he had in fact lied to her before.

LizzieSiddal · 03/06/2023 09:35

PE lied to his wife, children, bosses, work colleagues, Agents and his OWN lawyers. Plus every single person who watches his programmes.

Dan Wootton knew he was doing this and you can’t blame him for wanting the lies exposed.

Mumsday · 03/06/2023 09:39

DannyLaRuesBestFrock · 03/06/2023 00:29

They did. Ruth put in a grievance about it and then they both got the sack from This Morning.

How on Earth do you know this? Genuine question.

Hannahsbananas · 03/06/2023 09:45

Gtsr443 · 03/06/2023 08:59

His mentions of suicide and Caroline Flack was disgraceful.

Caroline Flack's mum doesn't agree with you and thinks ITV has let PS down.
Watch her on Newsnight.
Pesky facts eh?

How have ITV let him down?

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 03/06/2023 09:46

The appalling narrative about us all being disapproving homophobes if we think he did anything wrong...

"Do you want me to die!?"

The comparison of himself to CF??

Classic narcissistic abuser trying to spin the blame back around onto the public and the media rather than admitting any guilt.

As for DW and EH... they are hardly covering themselves in glory here! EH was just awful to watch, gloating and mocking.

All 3 are prize twats but PS wins by being a groomer and an abuser.

ohfourfoxache · 03/06/2023 09:47

He is a wankstain on the already grubby sheets of humanity

Over40Overdating · 03/06/2023 09:48

For the posters touting Dan Wooton as some kind of truth seeking hero - he says he reported PS to ITV in 2019 yet was one of the first to be publicly congratulating him about him coming out a year later.

There are also many people online talking about the fact that DW’s behaviour makes PS look like a choir boy and the clock in ticking : at the moment he’s a useful stooge for GBeebies to offset any accusation of homophobia in this story reporting. Once his dirty secrets come out they will throw him away.

And Eamonn Holmes is a joke - by many accounts he and Ruth had already complained about PS and the runner before he came out yet still made ‘heartfelt’ speeches on the coming out programme.

And if, as he claims, Ruth is still in contact with the runner, who Eamonn has said repeatedly was vulnerable, how is going on GB News frothing over every salacious detail helping this man? How is humiliating him with tales that have not been verified adding to this?

And Ruth is just as bad - Eamonn has been showing his true, bitter and vindictive colours for a long time now and she stands by simpering like she’s won some prize.

PS is a horrible man who needs to be held to account but the fact that the loudest voices condemning him are people even more vile than he is, causing untold harm to a man who has no voice in the situation, solely for views and clicks, is disgusting.

Gtsr443 · 03/06/2023 09:50

Hannahsbananas · 03/06/2023 09:45

How have ITV let him down?

Watch her on Newsnight!!

Porkandbeans1 · 03/06/2023 09:51

I don't know anything about him but I wish people would stop making Caroline flack out to be some innocent victim. Domestic violence ruins lives and the perpetrators should lose their jobs and be shunned from society.

Hannahsbananas · 03/06/2023 09:53

Gtsr443 · 03/06/2023 09:50

Watch her on Newsnight!!

No thanks.

Gtsr443 · 03/06/2023 10:06

Hannahsbananas · 03/06/2023 09:53

No thanks.

Then why ask?

polkadotdalmation · 03/06/2023 10:07

Teaslurpershutup · 02/06/2023 22:52

Eammon Holmes and Ruth Langston must have known what what was going on with PS so as far as I'm concerned they are all as bad as one another.

Do you not know that Ruth actually took this to management and was brushed off? Eamonn and Ruth befriended this young man and considered him a friend. They were concerned about his welfare and his relationship with PS, as they could see he was vulnerable.

Jonnycat · 03/06/2023 10:10

@AConstantGreyInTheClouds He is a manipulator and a minimiser and a liar. I can imagine him saying “I won’t be home tonight, I’m working so will be staying overnight” But will omit the fact he has his boyfriend staying with him.

In his eyes, that’s not a lie.

Unless his wife directly asked the question he will and can say he hasn’t lied to her before.

Over the runner, she did ask, he did directly lie. To everyone.

His fatal mistake was lying to his agent. If he’d admitted it to them, they would have covered it up. I do wonder if he lied to them because of his daughter but I doubt it.

polkadotdalmation · 03/06/2023 10:10

Saying that I don't like Holmes and Wooten together.

However i secretly find Wootten and piers entertaining in a bitchy kind of way, even though I know I shouldn't! Jeremy Kyle and Nigel farage and the guy with curly hair and glasses, to vile even for shits and giggles.