Phillip Schofield #39 "OK groomer"

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louisababe said:
I’ve been thinking about this for a few days and no one just loses their job from an affair … I mean look at Rooney … vernon Kay ect and all the others.. their PR and agents don’t drop them for that .. the grooming thing is already being mentioned and I reckon this his why they have dropped Philth .. as the prince trust has.. this stinks of illegal activity
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Agree 💯 especially when Princes Trust announced. Shagging young bloke is not illegal, others have done worse. But if it is illegal they’d step away pronto …
 
MissGlitzyRitzy said:
Maybe at his home?
Probably never allowed phones Afterall 'he wasn't publically out?' So likely guests respected that or maybe signed NDAs?
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Or the visitors were 'in' on tbe reason for the gathering & equally wished to remain out of the public eye on this matter. Maybe a British version of a Bryan singer party. ( I have no proof of any kind regarding this just pure conjecture on my part)
 
lamaitresse said:
(Aside from the heart of the issue about Mathew McGreevy's grooming)

I've thought about that - the era Phillip has been closeted (since the mid-1980s at least, though he was on NZ TV before the UK?) would not have been that tolerant. Yes, you had out and proud pop stars in the mainstream - Jimmy Somerville, Marc Almond, Andy Bell - but they were in the minority - and everyone knows George Michael's story. Elton John said not long after George's death that GM was uncomfortable with being gay (though some people debate that EJ even said this). Tragic if this was true, my heart breaks for him (RIP, George).

Personally I got "hassle" in the 1990s because I lived alone and hung around with a group of gay women. People just assumed. The world definitely wasn't "live and let live".

I think as a kiddie-friendly BBC TV presenter (Phillip started off in the broom cupboard and on Going Live!) it probably wouldn't have been as acceptable as it is nowadays - and I hate to say this as it's not something I ever understood, even then.

Even my beloved Pet Shop Boys didn't "come out" (well, Neil did! I don't think Chris bothers discussing it - why should he?) till around the year 2000. Though, I think it was safe to say most people knew and didn't care, anyway.

I still believe that Phillip and Stephanie had / have an arrangement - and that's their business, but it's sad that you have to take that path in life and not just do as you please (consensually and of age, of course). It seems like such a needless waste of time and energy, all those years lost. Who wants to live a lie?

I'm old enough to remember when Phillip was something of a teen hearthrob and he would appear in magazines like Just Seventeen (I even had a picture of him showing a little bit of flesh in the shower from that magazine! Funny when you think about it, and not a great example of my taste - I had it on my wall, to my great shame). He even presented the Smash Hits Awards on TV at one point back then. You wonder if the journos knew and found it hilarious.
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Fully off topic but I LOVE the pet shop boys.

I am also old enough to remember Smash Hits and Big! and yes Phil was a teen magnet 🤢 I know it’s different now but no one was out really back then. I’m glad times have changed but I’m sad that yet again a potential gay icon has stoked the horrible homophobic fires of ‘gay men are pedos’ by making such an awful decision. I do believe he groomed MM and I think there’s more to come. I can’t see how Holly was unaware. At this stage, just cancel
TM and start over. It’s toxic.
 
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