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?

[FreakStar]

I don't get where MNetters get all their 'rules' from- the rules are very few!

He was seemingly living with his family at the start of lockdown- being seen entering a flat in London two weeks ago does not mean he has moved out. And it would be within 'the rules' to stay somewhere alone for work and travel back to family at the weekend. Maybe he stays over at the flat in the week to avoid travelling back to Oxfordshire every night?

[Kickanxietyinthebeanbag]

I saw that In the news and thought the same

[Dodgytrousers]

Let's not also forget that the Uk is the most densely populated country in Europe...

We're packed in like sardines ... 9 million alone in London whereas Sweden, a country much bigger than ours in land mass, has an ENTIRE population of just over 10 million.

[IHaveBrilloHair]

I'd let Dd stay here if she wanted, and swap back and forth from her house where she lives with her boyfriend.
Nothing to do with PS of course and I have no idea or care what his reasons are but mental health is important too, and if my daughter needs me, she needs me.

[missyB1]

For those saying “if he hasn’t moved out permanently it’s ok to go and stay in his flat sometimes”
Eerrr.. why is it? So if I have a second home it’s ok to pop there for the occasional weekend is it? Because I haven’t actually moved out of my main residence. Doesn’t make any sense!!

[rwalker]

I think it's the self-righteousness and smugness He's the first to call anyone out.

As for fat people being at higher risk everything you read point to this. on a sliding scale . In basic terms the more you are over a normal a bmi the higher risk you are . So the I'm fat and fit brigade are higher risk than people with normal bmi.

[NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite]

Where did you get that I moved out?" Phil asked the follower, before adding: "Oh yeah, the papers," followed by a laughing emoji and a thumbs up.
So maybe he didn’t actually move out.
He didn't actually deny he'd moved out or state he still lived in the family home with that response though did he?
Maybe he did move out and his response was to make you assume the press have it wrong.

Maybe he lives in said flat during the week when he’s working to avoid too much travel and travels back to home at the weekends?
I'm pretty sure the press will be aware if he has moved home.

[Footywife]

Let's face it....hes been putting his wife at risk for years. Why would he change his selfish ways now.

[Bertucci]

No-one knows any details about where he actually lives, only what’s been speculated in the tabloids.

Even if he stays in London for work in the week and goes home at the weekends, who cares? I can’t see that he’s breaking any rules.

[EveryLifeHasASoundtrack]

Maybe he did move out and his response was to make you assume the press have it wrong.

Possibly. I’m neither a fan or a hater of him. But I do know that tabloids are scum and serve to whip people up into loving or hating someone.

[Lumene]

I thought it was because he’s visiting children?

[JacobReesMogadishu]

There was some MP who was doing similar, so staying in his London flat during the week and going to family home at weekends. Apparently that was ok and counts as one household.

[MsSquiz]

@footywife how has he been "putting his wife at risk for years?"

[FreakStar]

The flat is in London where he works- it's obviously not a cottage in Cornwall where he's going for a holiday!

The rule about second homes was to stop people flocking to the coast and small villages where hospitals are smaller and wouldn't be able to cope with the influx of numbers from other places. Not to stop people staying to avoid travelling in and out of central London.

[FreakStar]

I love how people think adults in their 20s count as children.

[Bagelsandbrie]

Children?!! They’re adults!

[GenerateUsername]

Let's not also forget that the Uk is the most densely populated country in Europe...

No it’s not, what nonsense. It’s under the Netherlands and Belgium for a start.

[CrowdedHouseinQuarantine]

they are still his offspring,
still referred to as children tbh quite commonly.

[FreakStar]

People might refer to their kids as 'children', but they certainly aren't counted as children in terms of whether they can move between households during lockdown.

[Soontobe60]

I think he's an utter bastard for what he has done to his family. He has publicly humiliated his wife by not only having affairs, but then deciding he's gay. This photo makes me feel very angry for her. She has to play at happy families with her children, pretending she's absolutely fine with his behaviour, at the same time sending her daughters a message that it's perfectly fine to be treated like shit by a man, his needs must come first.
Whether his family have known all along about his affairs and sexuality and been ok with it is irrelevant. He's been deceitful just so to further his own career, and maybe his wife has gone along with it because where else would she get so much money? It's all very grim.

So, I don't give a damn if he's moving between his wife's home and his flat, that's the least of his shitty behaviour.

[Bagelsandbrie]

They aren’t children in the sense that the rules of being able to move between shared households apply to them, that’s what people mean.

[Yolo2]

If he was living with his family at start of lockdown and sometimes now goes to another flat on his own, I cant see how he is breaking the rules. He isn't mixing with other people just by being in a flat on his own sometimes. What risk is there?

[NellMangel]

I'm a respecter of lockdown but cant get worked up about this.

If I had a spare flat I'd quite fancy a night or two alone there!

[Bagelsandbrie]

To be fair no one actually knows what his wife thinks about any of this. For all we know she might have always known he was gay or from very early on in their marriage and decided to stay anyway, for the friendship, security etc etc. Who knows. People stay together for all sorts of reasons, not just romantic love.

[mynameisbiggles]

His toy-boy lover probably gets bored with him and kicks him out every now and then.