Phillip Schofield

[DeeLicious]

He says in his statement that the fact that he is gay "has been consuming me for the last few years", yet he's been married for 27 years - are we to deduce he didn't know he was gay until a few years ago, or that if he was it didn't trouble him til a few years ago? He also says: "This is something that has caused many heart-breaking conversations at home" - if those were recent conversations, why did he not open up to his wife at least long before? How awful for her and their daughters. I can find little sympathy for the guy if he knew all along and never told his Mrs, though he appears to be full of self-pity. Must admit I never warmed to him, and like him even less now. Where do your sympathies lie?

[emmie]

a family split perhaps,
i couldn't live with someone if after all that time they declared themselves gay. It would negate all that went before..

[pastafreak]

Emmie, are you assuming his wife has not known of this, and that they've not discussed it until now?
I find that highly improbable and suspect it's been known for quite a while...it was more a matter of if and when he would publicly come out.

[emmie]

perhaps she did know, but i wouldn't like to be married to a gay man, knowing that he could just go off with other men.

[piggynose]

He might bat both sides. Would that be a problem for you Emmie?

[New Judge]

I've only caught glimpses of him on the telly once or twice and didn't really know that much about him. I just assumed he was gay. Quite why he has to tell the world and her husband all about it is a mystery to me. I suppose it's given him a bit of free publicity. Bit of a shame for his wife, though.

[teacake44]

13.58 yep, normally ones sex life is kept private.

[Old_Geezer]

But it's different if you're not the norm. They even have parades about it !

[corylus]

Do we really care?

[Denton]

Will it now be "webuyallancarr.com"from now on.

[thesshhh]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10923868/phillip-schofield-admits-he-knew-he-was-gay-when-he-wed-27-years-ago-in-his-only-interview-on-coming-out/ The fact that The Sun were in the This Morning studio when PS “came out” live on air, and then he did this big Sun exclusive straight after, suggests he owed them. My theory is they had something on him and this interview was a trade off to quash the stronger story they had. It explains why he came out when he did....after 27 years!

[emmie]

i would have a massive problem if my husband came out as gay or bi, you would lose all the trust that had been built up over the many years.

[thesshhh]

Why are so many calling Schofe “brave”? Strikes me he’s long been a coward and a liar

[Nical]

I think he's brave only in that revealing this, PS has left himself open to intense scrutiny in the press, on television etc. Look at the comments generated here on AB, people dissecting everything, people passing judgment on all aspects of his life. You may feel he's long been a coward and a liar, but you (we) know very little of the realities of it all.

[david small]

Sick of this, and sick of him.

[MWG14]

Is this really news and does anybody outside the family really care?

[weecalf]

Ok Philip fair enough now would you tell us what you earn from tv shows and adverts I’ll come out and say I get 650 a month on the pension .

[Jordyboy9]

Why are so many men on tv I will not call them celebrities
Homosexual?as a 82 year old homophobic it is a source of amazement to me that there are so many,
I will not name them as we all know most of the famous,

[jno]

does your gaydar even work from as far away as Paphos, jordy?

[maggiebee]

Can't remember when the Chaser, Paul Sinha, came out as gay and married his long term partner there was so much fuss. What's so special about PS?