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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,488 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Dec presented a series of I'm a celebrity with Holly and it seemed to go down a storm to be fair...so I am sure she will move on, no indication or evidence she did anything wrong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,065 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    I have no idea how that is relevant but both have had successful shows away from each other.

    Also "car accident" 🙄 Ant wrote off his car píssed out of his head and narrowly avoided hitting a young family.

    But Holly is toxic. 👍️



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭firemansam4


    I would never ever contemplate getting into a sexual relationship with someone who was only 20 at my age (mid 40's) never mind 60+

    Where is the hypocrisy in that?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭cap.in.hand.


    I'm not denying they are individually capable of being excellent presenters...just currently their main brand is the household partnerships they currently carry on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭cap.in.hand.


    Holly was sitting on the sofa with Phil ...if Dec was a passenger in ants car while driving...I'm sure Dec would be called out for being as IN...TOXIC..ATED him for not stopping him driving as he was p£ss£d as you say.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭juno10353


    PS played to the audience in his coming-out drama on sofa, attention seeking performance. Now doing the same, same act,different sofa.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,672 ✭✭✭valoren


    Falsus in uno falsus in omnibus. Yes, not a court of law but in the court of public opinion saying you're a liar/you've been lying consistently doesn't exactly help foster sympathy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭juno10353


    His last drama had him labelled as being "sooo brave and honest". Think he is hoping for same sympathy. Am angry at him pulling suicide card on his innocent daughters, leaving them feeling responsible for his mental health. If he feels suicidal he knows to receive mental help not sofa drama. Narcissist......is everyone watching. Like a child looking for attention



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,826 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    That's not illegal.

    There are many people (hetro/same sex) who have been in that situation.

    You might not agree with it but it is not illegal once both parties are of legal age and both consent.

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,981 ✭✭✭✭walshb


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,065 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    So sitting on a couch with someone is now the same as getting into a car with someone you know is drunk.

    Dig up FFS.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,065 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    I didn't mention a court of law or public opinion.

    I highlighted your opinion.

    The only person saying this was consensual is Schofield himself who has also said he has lied repeatedly and consistently so take that for what you will.

    The only reasonable take from that is that it was non-consensual which is sexual assault. Correct?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭cap.in.hand.


    Get your facts right before posting your bitterness



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,065 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    The facts are simple despite your absolute nonense.

    Neither Dec or Holly did anything wrong so therefore neither are toxic or share any sort of culpability.



  • Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No real surprise, the entertainment industry is full of perverts and degenerates.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭nachouser


    "This mourning" is just sitting there waiting to be grabbed as a book title.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,823 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Dis-mounting, might be an alternative.



  • Posts: 7,522 ✭✭✭ Milena Black Self-destruction


    Ah in fairness though if you found out your best mate was secretly riding chung wans behind their wife’s back you’d probably be a bit disgusted with them no?

    friend cuts both ways like it’s a bit rich to say holly is this or that because she’s cut Phillip off but we are just to pretend he did not betray his friends trust and lie to her etc? (Assuming that’s the case)

    I don’t think it’s strange at all anyway. Phil supposedly lied to his friend and she’s pissed off about it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭CPTM


    The only thing I can't get past, is the fact the lad was an adult when this happened. So even when people are talking about how disgusting it is for PS to have a fling with an 18 year old, I can't help but think how disgusting it would be to jump into bed with an old creep like him. And that's exactly what the 18 year old did. I don't know which disgusts me more - The idea of a 60 year old wanting to jump into bed with an energetic 18 year old, or the idea of an 18 year old wanting to jump into bed with a near 60-year-old-creep.

    I'm not sure whose mind is more messed up there to be honest.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,981 ✭✭✭✭walshb



    Do people really believe that Phil's wife was oblivious? Come off it. She knew!!! Knew for years, no doubt.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    It’s totally irrelevant what 2 consenting adults decide to do. The public condemnation is sickening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,672 ✭✭✭valoren


    Absolutely incorrect. I make the point that we’re hearing one side of a story here and you take that to mean I am accusing him of sexual assault. Schofield has referred to the other party (Matthew McGreevy) to the point that he says he is paying for his legal representation, that they are still mates etc. We’ve heard nothing at all from the man, he hasn’t engaged the likes of the Sun or the BBC or the Daily Mail. Nature abhors a vacuum and so we see the speculation, the online gossip, the outright accusations by all and sundry to fill in the blanks. Until he says it was all consensual then that will continue, it will keep Schofield feeling what Caroline Flack felt. We can’t put that to rest but as it stands, with that void in place, with such suspicious silence in the age of instantaneous communication, then anything is possible up to it not having been consensual. And to re-iterate that is not a direct accusation but no doubt that won’t be acceptable to you. To clarify here, I give Schofield despite being a self-confessed liar the benefit of the doubt as to it all being consensual. If they are still mates, per Schofield, then why can't the mate put in a good word for his mate in that case?

    McGreevy might not be able to speak out if he is legally constrained to do so but that is another kettle of fish altogether. If that is the case and he is gagged from talking about a relationship with Schofield then the ridiculousness of this is that you have someone engaged in an adulterous consensual adult relationship with another man, a man who has touted his suicide ideation and whom he could clear of any wrong doing and publicly clear of nefarious gossip and accusations but can't do so because ITV was protecting a member of the team, protecting the brand, protecting the revenue until it all reached breaking point with his brother jailed and Schofield found himself thrown under the bus to protect the brand, the revenue....

    In short, it all revolves around money with no heed paid to people who, regardless of their standing in the scheme/hierarchy of things or with 41 years of experience, are disposable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,326 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    FFS then delete your post as opposed to leaving the whole thing there and confusing things further and think next time before you post- there’s nothing wrong with what I said so stop jumping on posters for the hell of it just you “think” they got “your” definition of pedophilia wrong- if we’ve heard it once we’ve heard it 1000 times on this thread- it boring now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,961 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Have a look at Grindr. Plenty of guys who are 18-20 looking for an older daddy/bear and they've no hassle finding one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,326 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    It goes back to Ancient Greece - even a former Irish Presidential candidate got into trouble for referring to it.

    Mentor and Telemachus in Homers Odessey springs to mind where Telemachus’ father went off to war and left his son with Mentor to “teach him all you know” -but not sure if that was Pederasty or not but obviously it gives rise to the modern term mentor .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Phil comparing himself to both Caroline Flack and Leo Di Caprio and acknowledging that the photo of him with the young fella as a child look bad, epic fails imho, Holly will have to issue some statement when back Monday as the video photo evidence from NTAs she knew

    Everyone knows the poor young fella Matthew so Phil was never protecting him or his family



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,326 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Sorry now but what “photo evidence”???

    Holly pictured with Philip and “young chap” is “evidence” of nothing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,065 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Wow that is a shít tonne of speculation.

    You were very specific in your claim.

    The only person saying this was consensual is Schofield himself who has also said he has lied repeatedly and consistently so take that for what you will.

    What is the opposite of consensual?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭CPTM




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,631 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Lol, the Caroline Flack reference, this dude is off the feckin chain.

    What part of doing an interview to camera is a terrible idea did Schofield not understand.



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