Phillip Schofield thanks fans for their support since his paedophile brother was convicted of sexual

[quote]Well, there's been a lot of gossip, much of it malicious, but I haven't seen any compelling proof that Schofield has acted illegally with an underage child (what he might have done with a researcher wouldn't be a legal question ofc). Most importantly, unlike, oh let's just say.... Prince Andrew, he has no public accuser.

That's because he has an injunction to stop Matthew McGreevy selling his story.

[quote]And any gay man should be super concerned, in the current climate of rising hostility towards the gay community, now that a prominent gay celebrity is being repeatedly smeared as a paedophile when most of the photos/'evidence' (at least that I've seen) point to some kind of relationship, maybe only professional, with a legal adult. Whether you think his conduct is immoral or not is obviously a different question.

OH FUCK OFF. Schofield lived a double life and "did a Spacey"; he had a staged managed coming out interview as a PR exercise.

Schofield was a 50+ year old man having a relationship with a 17 year old. That's not illegal. It's not illegal that he knew this 17 year old when he was a much younger kid.

But where the "paedo" accusations really hurt Schofield was his testimony in court that his brother had told him he was sexually abusing a child and that Phillip S didn't inform the police when told. Why did Schofield's brother think Phillip would be interested in knowing what the teenager's body was like???

[quote]In a written statement, he said: “I was washing up and Tim was standing behind me and he said: ‘You are going to hate me for what I am about to say.’

[quote]“I said there was nothing he could say that would make me hate him. 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.” The ITV star said he told his brother that he didn’t want to hear any more after Timothy began discussing the boy’s body, the court heard.

John Barrowman behaved appallingly on set, regularly getting his dick out and hitting people in the face with it, and it was a huge industry joke. When Hugo Spear did it on the set of The Full Monty tv show he was sacked and his character was written out.

There's been a variety of opinion on Jake Daniels starting a relationship with a man in his 40s when he was 17, but no one has (to my knowledge) called the older man a paedo or a groomer, and a 17 year old I'm old enough to remember the disapproval when BIllie Piper was dating Chris Evans when she was 17 and he was only 35. And no, his career didn't suffer and yes, people defended the relationship.

The death of Rolf Harris this week has reminded us that we have a track record in the UK of TV presenters with a wholesome public image who were nasty cunts behind the scenes. That has helped shaped the reaction to Schofield.

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