Phillip Schofield steps down from ITV after affair with "much younger male"

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100% agree it’s a very strange way to label the affair.

If Phil had an affair with a 20 year old girl who he knew as a child in a theatre charity and took them out for meet ups through his friend and got them work in his show and then had sexual encounters with them once the age of consent, I would still find that uncomfortable, I find the details of the encounters, timelines, cover up and lies etc., all are more condemning than the affair whether gay or straight, adding in the fact of his brother's actions and convictions and Phil's knowledge of

Let me correct you there... Schofield in his interview said it was not a AFFAIR/RELATIONSHIP...get your facts rights.

Sorry mistype there - he said unwise but legal.

If he did nothing wrong why did he resign?

One assumes he means legal under criminal law. Is breach of contract legal?

The point is it wasnt an affair or fling with a random 20 yo. But someone he effectively hired and was in a position of authority over and seemingly the other guys promising career is now over before it barely started.

He lied to ITV about it and we can presume this was in breach of contract. Otherwise why resign without seeking a pay off?

I cant speak for every poster here but as far as Im concerned there has to be significant career consequences for that. He should never be in position to do that again.

There has been a lot of scrutiny of situations in entertainment industry of sexual misconduct where there is a power difference.

Theres also the questions around exactly what he knew about his brothers child abuse and when.

He was dropped by his management agency.

Sure there are more important scandals but its not a trivial thing either.

Theres also the questions around exactly what he knew about his brothers child abuse and when.

No there isn't, he furnished the crown with a statement and then released a further statement.

You wanting there to be questions isn't the same as there is questions.

If he did nothing wrong why did he resign?

He lied to ITV about it and we can presume this was in breach of contract.

You seem to have answered your own question there.

The point is it wasnt an affair or fling with a random 20 yo. But someone he effectively hired and was in a position of authority over and seemingly the other guys promising career is now over before it barely started.

Do you think it could be partly down to that scum gossip blog you keep linking to which outed him?

Your faux concern is quite touching though. 😕

His statement to the Crown - well you yourself said, his legal team would have reviewed his comments such that he wouldn't say anything that would obviously legally incriminate himself. So given there were only two parties to the conversation, even if Schofield's brother had told him the boy was underage, Philip Schofield on the stand would not admit that - that's the clear implication of what you said.

He told his brother to NEVER do it again. NEVER. Not, you need get help and sort your sexuality out because it was causing him mental anguish. But NEVER. His comments simply don't make sense from a gay man if all his brother was doing was legal and consensual.

Why was he dropped like a stone by his management agency?

So yes, there are questions. And I'm not the only one asking them.

"Faux concern" -> out comes the bad faith argument to other's motives here. And you have no other agenda than defending Philip Schofield's reputation? Pull the other one.

If someone conflicted about their sexuality came to me, and said they'd been fooling around with someone legal but much younger, that they weren't in a position of responsibility to... I would tell them they need to talk to a professional to sort out their issues. That possibly they may not be happy if they try to suppress their homosexuality. Telling them to STOP while they sort that out, yes - but I wouldn't tell them to NEVER do it again.

We're not in the same jurisdiction as the UK. The information is already available on the internet worldwide. The story is out there.

What a stupid, and juvenile post. There is no contradiction, and the fact you can't elaborate tells me that you're a bit clueless, really

Schofield said they were 'mates' ..

An entirely bad faith line of argument.

Continuously linking to it -> when did I last link to it? I'm not linking it "continuously". The information is in the public domain if anyone wants to google it. Linking it here doesn't alter that.

As would most "reasonable" people -> clear prejudicial implication anyone who disagrees with you is unreasonable.

Look up the word “if” and “mostly.”

Nobdy knows exactly how they’re feeling.

But I’d be far surer it is due to the constant criticisms in the media compared to anything PS did. Yes, I’d lay my bets here…

yes, technically to cover myself I should have said “most likely,”…..but if my not including it makes you all giddy, so be it.

you’re posting comes across ever so childish.

"Once the age of consent" here being used to try and make this as off/seedy as possible, as if PS jumped on the lad the very day the lad turned 16.

The lad was a man when PS and he became intimate. That's all there is to this. The rest is simply a societal "losing their sh1t" issue

It wasn't just "a stranger who had a fling" now, was it?

One of the most well known media personalities in these islands. He didn't resign for the craic. He didn't resign just because he had "a fling" now did he?

If you're not bothered by it, that's your call. But it begs the question why you're bothering with this thread at all.

"Concentrate on their own lives " ... rather than what? Making judgements about what people discuss on social media???

His agency dropped him, the agency that employs his daughter, many media agencies have stayed with clients through bad times even affairs etc., the fact that so many have distanced themselves from Phil even though they all knew about his relationship makes you wonder

the fact that so many have distanced themselves from Phil even though they all knew about his relationship makes you wonder

Have you citation for your claim that they all knew about it?

I didn't link the article "continuously", I posted the article in response to specific queries and have not posted it recently. Your statement was false.

And now, a guilt by association accusation by referencing an entirely different scenario of blackmailing - Schofield did not resign because he was being blackmailed.

You continue in this vein - "most reasonable people". So prejudicial argument. It's not at all clear that his statement had that specific meaning.

Nowhere does this statement reference "family home". So what you are trying to spin as "reasonable" is based on your own embellishments of what was said.

Then he said that he and [the boy] had time together and that last year they had watched porn... and [masturbated]".

"I turned and said, 'What did you just say?' He said it was last year and we were alone together.

"Tim said it was just this once. I told him it should never happen again.

"He then started to tell me about [the boy's] body.

"I said, 'F***, stop'. I shouted at Tim that he had to stop. I didn't want to know any of the details but he made it sound like a one-off.

"I said, 'I don't want you to tell me anymore'. I said, 'You've got to stop, just never do it again. Regardless how that happened it must never happen again'.

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I think folks were expecting him to ring the cops straight away. When you factor in that it’s his brother, first, and second, nothing illegal had been even eststablished. PS was told the boy was 16

Holly claims she asked him, photo evidence

Why do you think his media agency dropped him, over just an affair, I don't think so

Holly claims she asked him, and he denied it. Philip even said in an interview that if Holly had ever asked him about it, he would have denied it (I think he couldn't remember a particular time she asked him, but that he would have lied about it regardless).

It's just as likely that the agency dropped him because he denied everything about the affair, and then when when it became apparant that he'd lied to them, they dropped him because they couldn't do their job effectively for him. Had he been honest with them, they could have put plans in place, statements, made sure they had looked into it that there was nothing illegal about it etc. Instead he lied to them and it was obvious he was going to get dropped from This Morning (due to a combination of the affair, workplace relations, falling out with Holly, and the revelations about his brother and what Philip may have known about it), at which point why bother keeping him on as a client at all? His career is already dead in the water and not worth the time and effort any more. 12.5% or whatever their part of Philip's TV deals are would still be £0, and would be likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

You're reading into things what you want to read into things. It doesn't make it so, not without evidence. And "Why do you think...." doesn't constitute evidence.