Why can Phillip Schofield live in two different properties during lockdown?

[Skybluepink123]

Just read that PS, who had moved into a London flat, has travelled back to the family home for a game of Murder Mystery. Why do so many celebrities feel lockdown doesn’t apply to them?

[burnoutbabe]

I am pretty sure Phil and holly are defined as key workers, same as piers and susanah or the one show presenters and news reporters. It's been mentioned a few times by them on their shows.
They called it essential workers on the show but same thing.

[avroroad]

I thought he’d had that flat in London for years.

He has, but don't let that get in the way of a good rant for OP!

[avroroad]

People who are still working are travelling g and staying hotels for goodness sake. What's the problem with Phillip staying in his own house?

[augustusglupe]

I thought he’d had that flat in London for years. Steph will never chuck him out. The rules of lockdown don’t apply to the saintly Schofield, so he will hop between the two forever.

[SophieB100]

I couldn't care less where he lives.
I'm just grateful that he's not on telly as much doing yoga with a goat on his head.
Every cloud has a silver lining...

[Bollss]

Who's it hurting as presumably nobody else lives in the flat? He's bringing no extra risk to his family is he?

[Skybluepink123]

Sparklingbrook and FreakStar your mind reading powers are admirable as you clearly know what my views of PS are even when I’ve clearly stated that I don’t dislike him! 😡

[Sparklingbrook]

I think you do dislike PS OP. It comes across a bit like that.

[FreakStar]

Yes @Skybluepink123 but it’s not really relevant if people are using their second home to enable them to work and avoid using transport. Why are you being so blindsided in this argument? What do you think people should do if they work in area away from their family home? What’s worse- travelling daily or living in two places? I really don’t get you! I don’t believe that this isn’t just because it’s PS!

[Skybluepink123]

For the umpteenth time I don’t dislike PS, I just feel that he’s been hypocritical. Similar probably to lots of other people but they’re not in the public eye. And it is second homes, not just holiday homes as some have claimed on here.

[sunshinesupermum]

MsSquiz he's been putting his wife's health at risk for years because he has been shxxxing men and then no doubt wanting some from her too. (I've been there and got the teeshirt)

[Bertucci]

I don't get all the hatred for Philip Schofield on here.

It's a bit like Peter Andre a few years back.

I am ambivalent towards PS btw, just don't get all the frothing.

[homeschoolmyarse]

It’s not ‘don’t go to your second home’
It’s ‘don’t go to your holiday home’
It’s not the same situation as someone who lives in London moving to their Cornwall home.
Lots of people have second homes that they use for work, including MPs

[Sparklingbrook]

Well said @lookingforadvice8372829. I have a feeling this all boils down to the fact this is Philip Schofield we are talking about.

[lookingforadvice8372829]

@royalbluehat

More fool you!

As soon as I was able to work wise I would have packed up and gone back to the house with a garden and stayed put.

One journey back to your main home that you own wouldn't have been an issue.

[user1497873278]

HelenaDove, you are spot on, perfectly put, they are a bunch of protected hypocrites

[lookingforadvice8372829]

What a load of shit.

Do any of you know him personally? Has he told you he has moved out of his family home?

There are a plenty of reasonable possibilities.

He could have rented a London place for during the pandemic so he doesn't have long journeys to work with unnecessary risk and contact with drivers/public transport or whatever. Then go back home for weekends. What difference does it make risk wise if he stays alone in a flat Monday- Friday then goes back to the family home?

He might have even bought a new place before the virus struck but not moved in yet, and just be doing odd jobs and not actually staying there?

As long as he isn't living in two homes with two different groups of people, he isn't putting anyone at any more risk??

[homeschoolmyarse]

You don’t know anything, you don’t actually know where’s he’s been living. They very easily might be all in together
He might have just picked something up or dropped something off.
You don’t KNOW
I doubt very much he would post that photo if he wasn’t living there.

I would think they’ve made a decision to live together so they can actually see each other, whilst trying to set up a new flat

[FreakStar]

@Skybluepink123 You do realise that he is still working? And it’s not just key workers working- anyone who can’t work from home is allowed to go to work? I think you are being deliberately shortsighted just because it’s PS we are talking about. Lots of people who work a long distance from home stay over temporary accommodation during the week and return home at weekends.

[RoyalBlueHat]

I don't think it's fair.

I rent a very very small flat in London with no outside space that I got stuck in in lockdown because I was still working in the office that first week of lockdown.

We own a far far larger house with a garden about 90 mins away - in normal times, we spend weekends there and are only in the London flat during the working week.

However, because we are following the lockdown rules we haven't gone back to our house. I would love to be locked down there rather than here especially as we are now all working from home.

So yeah it does piss me off that all these 'celebrities' are going back and forth. I saw one of the Oasis lot was doing it too (chopping between London and his rural home fgs)

[Sparklingbrook]

You seem very invested in all this OP. He says he hadn’t moved out, he works in London, maybe he was picking something up from the flat? Who knows?
That’s not defending him that’s just saying nobody really knows. If he was going between two households full of people that’s different, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here as far as anyone can tell. 🤷‍♀️

[Skybluepink123]

Why are people defending his behaviour? He has travelled between two properties, one of which has to be his main residence and the other, by definition a second home. Government rules are NOT to travel to a second home and to remain in your main residence. It’s quite simple, isn’t it?

[HavartitoMeetYou]

He’s not a key worker though, and lots of key workers are staying apart from their partners and children long term to keep them safe.

[burnoutbabe]

surely this is no different to a key worker staying in a hotel near work during the week and returning home at weekend.

[Sparklingbrook]

Oh so it’s the unnecessary travel that is the problem now?