Philip Schofield Cast Away channel 5 30th September

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Who here will watch Philip fake cry and protest his innocence?! He did nothing wrong, did he?

I can't understand why if people don't like him, they are wasting their evening being on a thread about him, talking about him and some are probably watching it, can't you just do something else instead, you don't have to watch it.

I don’t know any details of what he did or didn’t do

Good, because I'd hate to think you wrote that with the knowledge of what he did.

He groomed a very junior member of staff on his show from that staff member being 15. He then had a sexual relationship with that person when they turned 18, behind his wife’s back. Apparently chewed the staff member up and spit him out after this. Massive abuse of his position on This Morning.

He has not acknowledged or shown any remorse for what he has done, only had a woe is me pity party.

I didn't watch but the clips I've seen, with him complaining about being 'totally destroyed' were pretty cringe. He behaved foolishly, lied to his employers and colleagues and therefore lost his job. That's what happens when you abuse your position and are dishonest. I don't really see what he's got to complain about!

It’s not a whole evening to post a couple of times, people like to discuss current affairs. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people to be curious about whether he’s actually shown any remorse given what happened, but not want to indulge him by adding to viewing figures either.

This. I watched some of it and I'm not a fan of his. If you don't like him, watch something else.
@AllAboutNiamh He came across well. He did make a mistake absolutely. I never understood the massive reaction though. His behaviour was morally questionable theres no doubt there. He was wrong and he paid the price with losing his job.

She's most likely a victim of emotional abuse. Their dynamic could be where every time she's tried voicing her concerns or expressed a desire to leave over the years that he's played the suicide card. I can't believe the stones on him to waste a woman's life like that and then hurt her further by attaching himself to her for everything she provides him with bar his sexual desires.

I'm in no way defending him but I am about facts. I thought I'd read that they didn't have sex.

He’s a nonce along with prince Andrew , no remorse other than for being caught
a a lot of enablers hiding in the background

They apparently waited until he was 18 to have sex but they have said it was a sexual relationship with PS having groomed him since he was 15.

I watched some of it. He referred to what he did as being "unwise" and that he'd decided to be "happy regardless". Maybe I missed the parts where his self-reflection covered the impact of his actions to his wife, his kids, his friends and colleagues and, of course, the "runner".

It’s more the power dynamics in the relationship and the imbalance, consent is very questionable here. A child being essentially groomed and then as the relationship has gone on taken advantage of by a much, much older person who holds a hell of a lot of power, not only over you but in the organisation you both work.

im not going to watch but saying someone wasnt charged so they didnt do it isnt correct

I agree.

The haters will trot out the ‘grooming’ line, but it’s gossip at best. And he was never charged with anything.

Cheryl Cole met Liam whatsit when he was 14, Bill Wyman met Mandy Smith when she was 13, Elvis and Priscilla…

Other celebrities have been unfaithful and not been cancelled. The fact he had a relationship with a man is the thing that the lynch mob went after him over, but they won’t admit it was that.

There was never any evidence of grooming, unless someone can dig up something that indicates grooming happened. By the way, they didn’t have sex until the younger man was 20. The power imbalance is questionable, but this is Mumsnet so a lot of people here are more (secretly) horrified about the age gap and it being a gay relationship.

Yes, I was waiting for him to use the word 'wrong' but that didn't happen.

And I doubt it ever will.

It takes a special kind of arrogant prick to make a programme all about him feeling sorry for himself, and still not admit his behaviour was wrong.

He met him aged 11.

He fasttracked him through jobs at itv.
He got privileges and promotions nobody else would have got.
He abused his power and groomed him.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13907703/Cast-Away-review-Phillip-Schofields-return-biggest-television-misjudgment-Prince-Andrew-thought-Newsnight-interview-went-writes-ROLAND-WHITE.html

Ugh, I didn’t even watch whatever morning thing he was on, although saw the odd clip on YouTube and had to put up with seeing him in the papers and popping up on adverts which was enough to make me sick of him. They really over-use some of these people, for no apparent reason. It’s not as if they are irreplaceable. Like calling Huw Edward’s in from his hair appointment to cover the late Queen’s passing. Why did it have to be him?

I'd love to know the runners story rather than his , but I suppose that will never happen.
I didn't watch this programme, but I might give it a go even though I've never liked PS and never watched This morning because him and Holly were just so fake.

I met him once. He was unspeakably arrogant.

I'm staying with an old school friend and she wanted to watch it. She commented that his marriage and family life seemed happier than most people's!!

I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than watch This Morning, absolutely zero interest. My main takeaway was that I'd starve on an island because no way could I eat what he did

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