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

Sorry, fake outrage.. mountain ouha molehill stuff.

Go on Google and type in “Schofield latest allegations”. I personally am NOT making any allegations.

But what I am saying is it looks awful for him.

It’s grim reading.

I understand why celebs, tv companies, former friends, former management agencies are running a mile.

You continually and deliberately misrepresent what happened. It wasn't just two random guys over 18. It was someone Schofield had a direct role in hiring. He abused his position. He lied to his employer, colleagues and family.

You are defending this conduct by continually trying to turn a blind eye to it.

What conduct? I have already said that this is nothing more than an employment matter.

You want to portray it as vile and nasty and criminal by the sounds of it. In other words, you want it to be seen as outrageous. I don’t see it as at all outrageous.

What does that even mean, "nothing more than an employment matter" ???

Conduct can be outrageous and vile and nasty and still be within the realm of "an employment matter".

He abused his position for sexual advantage.

And people can sincerely, legitimately express criticism of such actions.

Time will tell re: criminal aspect. Conduct does not have to be criminal for is to be subject to public criticism.

Agreed. But the level of scrutiny and criticism is ridiculously OTT.

It’s disturbing how much people are piling on pressure on this man so very publicly and so intensely.u

btw, how are you proving/measuring that he abused his position for sexual advantage? Is that just your opinion?

It's speculation either way ... maybe McGreevy wanted a relationship \ thought they were in one based on Schofield's pretence.

Quite probably he is under an ITV hush money NDA so only the ITV investigation or the police can reveal more wrt his side of the story.

I didn't make a statement of fact. I offered an opinion as to the likely reason why we haven't heard anything from the other party, given how in demand his story would be and the price British newspapers are known to pay for such stories.

Schofield said in the BBC interview that he paid legal expenses for McGreevy. Why?

What on earth are you talking about.

He has neither come out in support of Schofield (if he feels everything was above board) or attacking Schofield (if he feels they were not).

Why? What's your explanation?

Why is Schofield paying for his legal expenses - as he stated in BBC interview?

I offered a possible explanation, one that is common in such cases; and which therefore in my opinion is the likely explanation here.

I did not make a statement of fact that it existed.

So if you are concerned about making rubbish it - don't make it up about other poster's posts.

Do you think the media onslaught should continue?

What is an acceptable outcome for you?

I will always remember Philip as the lovely man who would sing the theme tune of Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds on BBC 1.... while over on RTE we had the excitement of a clock ticking away on screen.

At 4 years old, Philip had already taught me a valuable lesson.... Irish TV was mostly shyte.

For that alone, I salute him.

I'd say McGreevy was just very young and inexperienced.

I'd imagine he thought the relationship was a lot more serious than it actually was.

It appears PS was in his life from a young age, I'm guessing a "mate" before the sexual relationship started. So I think McGreevy can probably be forgiven for thinking the relationship was more than what it was. PS was in his circle for years. So you'd imagine mutual respect n all that.

For PS is seems like it was a fling.

It's a hard lesson to learn whether gay , straight or whatever, when a person is just not that into you.

This then playing out in the public domain for someone so young , when all they did was trust and fall for someone who was in their life from a young age. I have a lot of sympathy for.

The reality is PS should have had a lot more sense. If he wanted a young legal guy he should have just gone to the many gay bars and picked up a consenting adult there. However the way this has played out, it looks from the outside anyway that he wanted someone young and someone he could control. Which is not a good look.