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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 10:34:07 GMT
Announced he’s gay
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Post by johnie21 on Feb 7, 2020 10:40:28 GMT
💙💙💙🙌🏼🌈so Proud of Phil.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 10:47:30 GMT
Sorry - snowflake here. There’s something about the tone of this thread that doesn’t sit well with me...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 10:52:26 GMT
What tone??
Good for Phillip. It's never an easy thing to do and it sounds like he has a lot of support around him.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 11:10:22 GMT
Strange that he should feel the need to wait so many years especially after nearly 30 years of marriage. I could understand perhaps when he first broke into Children's BBC and was seen as the "Boy Next Door Type" also people were likely less tolerant back then. He maybe seemed a bit camp but it was more a cheeky sense of humour. I never heard any rumours about him being gay over the years and he has been a high profile TV personality for nearly 35 years.
But fair play to him for admitting the truth and I hope things are amicable with his wife.
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Post by kathryn on Feb 7, 2020 11:43:35 GMT
Twitter is full of people saying 'no sh*t Sherlock' but I was genuinely surprised - is this one of those things that everyone knew but me, or are people on Twitter just being A**holes?
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Post by vdcni on Feb 7, 2020 11:59:59 GMT
I remember there being a strong assumption about him being gay back in the day but I thought it had pretty much gone away after being married to a woman for so long.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 7, 2020 12:00:16 GMT
Surprised too. And I'm a gay man so clearly my gaydar is off. And yes it's the same a**holes who talk about having heard rumours for years or having always suspected, when it's frankly nobody's business and it's a personal timing thing. So eff them, I say!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 12:27:48 GMT
Not a massive surprise he is gay, more of a surprise he has announced it but I am suspicious of the timing, as the allegations and rumours of what he is like off camera continue to grow he chooses now to come out
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 7, 2020 13:03:59 GMT
I always thought he was overly chummy with Gordon the Gopher...
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Post by missthelma on Feb 7, 2020 13:13:17 GMT
This really must be the most shocking announcement since Kevin Spacey revealed he was gay.
Stunned is the only way to describe how stunned I am. (You can always rely on Blanche Devereaux for an appropriate quote)
However if it's to stave off some muck raking gutter journalist story, that stinks
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 7, 2020 13:15:38 GMT
Given that he came on to a friend of mine many years ago, this really didn't surprise me in the slightest.
No doubt he has had his struggles over this for decades.
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Post by kathryn on Feb 7, 2020 13:50:02 GMT
My guess is that something was going to be in this Sunday's newspapers. If so, that stinks. As for Mr Schofield himself, simply all the best to him. And I don't think there is anything wrong in the tone of this thread either. Factual title, supportive replies. Be assured though that anything homophobic posted on here will of course be dealt with by your friendly neighbourhood mod team... so think on... Yes, it does seem likelier that he has been pushed rather than him choosing to make the leap. Which is sad. |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 7, 2020 14:15:57 GMT
Phil Vickery and Fern Britton also announced the end of their 20 year partnership earlier this week (only linking to main thread as being This Morning related). I guess there was some shabby Sunday Paper expose "This Morning" reveal in the offing, "secret lives of" kind of thing.
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Post by Sam on Feb 7, 2020 14:41:25 GMT
He's categorically said that he hasn't been forced into making the announcement, but how true that is...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 14:47:47 GMT
I hope it won't be too long before this sort of expose becomes a thing of the past. I don't know why papers still do it; the public reaction is always overwhelmingly supportive, so what do they think they'll achieve by it apart from looking slightly sordid and desperate?
I was reading somewhere recently that Rock Hudson was always terrified of revealing his sexuality because he was afraid of fan hostility, but when the truth eventually emerged the reaction from the public was neutral to supportive. The media keeps trying to act like this should be a huge deal for all of us but nobody's buying into it.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 7, 2020 14:59:28 GMT
I suspect lots of Gordon the gofa jokes are circulating in homaphobic circles
But good luck to him and I wish him and the family all the best... surley its time he ditched day time telly and returned to musical theatre
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Post by 49thand8th on Feb 7, 2020 15:57:12 GMT
Twitter is full of people saying 'no sh*t Sherlock' but I was genuinely surprised - is this one of those things that everyone knew but me, or are people on Twitter just being A**holes? The first type of reaction is always the worst. What good does it do to react this way? I'm not even talking about the celebs who will never see it. I'm talking about your closeted friends (and you likely have at least one). |
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Post by horton on Feb 7, 2020 16:05:44 GMT
There's been talk ever since his time in 'Joseph'. It's also generally known there was no love lost with Sarah Green and she had a few choice words about him 25 odd years ago!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 16:14:22 GMT
What tone?? Good for Phillip. It's never an easy thing to do and it sounds like he has a lot of support around him. There’s a great deal of debate to be had over the need to “come out” as anything, and that such attention doesn’t need to be drawn to it. To have an entire thread dedicated to this occasion with an exclamation point at the end further perpetuates this. Then the OP leaves the thread wide open with a brief comment as if it’s gossip worthy. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m trying to say though, I of course do know from my own personal experience that there is still very much a need for “coming out” whilst society insists on labelling people and putting them into boxes, especially when heteronormativity runs rampant. I personally felt that we could’ve better helped this cause by discussing it within a general Philip Schofield thread rather than this. As I said. Snowflake. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 16:30:42 GMT
Strange that he should feel the need to wait so many years especially after nearly 30 years of marriage. I could understand perhaps when he first broke into Children's BBC and was seen as the "Boy Next Door Type" also people were likely less tolerant back then. He maybe seemed a bit camp but it was more a cheeky sense of humour. I never heard any rumours about him being gay over the years and he has been a high profile TV personality for nearly 35 years. But fair play to him for admitting the truth and I hope things are amicable with his wife. The process won’t have been an easy one, and the longer time went by the harder it will have been. It must have been a particularly worrying time for him. I doubt he’s “waited” to do this out of choice. I would imagine that now is the first time he has felt ready and able to speak openly. I have nothing but respect and admiration for him for his actions today. |
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Post by Jon on Feb 7, 2020 16:42:36 GMT
My guess is that something was going to be in this Sunday's newspapers. If so, that stinks. As for Mr Schofield himself, simply all the best to him. And I don't think there is anything wrong in the tone of this thread either. Factual title, supportive replies. Be assured though that anything homophobic posted on here will of course be dealt with by your friendly neighbourhood mod team... so think on... The tabloids has been out to get him in the last couple of months with stories about him being difficult to work with on This Morning so it wouldn’t surprise me if it that was the case. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 17:46:55 GMT
Strange that he should feel the need to wait so many years especially after nearly 30 years of marriage. I could understand perhaps when he first broke into Children's BBC and was seen as the "Boy Next Door Type" also people were likely less tolerant back then. He maybe seemed a bit camp but it was more a cheeky sense of humour. I never heard any rumours about him being gay over the years and he has been a high profile TV personality for nearly 35 years. But fair play to him for admitting the truth and I hope things are amicable with his wife. The process won’t have been an easy one, and the longer time went by the harder it will have been. It must have been a particularly worrying time for him. I doubt he’s “waited” to do this out of choice. I would imagine that now is the first time he has felt ready and able to speak openly. I have nothing but respect and admiration for him for his actions today. I fully agree, living a lie is unfair on him, his wife and his family. There is no talk about him having a partner and having left his wife for them.
There has been talk that he is difficult to work with but that has been from other highly paid stars or people who think they should have got the gig when Holly covered for Ant.
Philip was seen as a bit of a goody two shoes back in the day but when I found out that he had a very puerile sense of humour and loved being edgy on shows like Celebrity Juice then I actually respected him more. I can remember watching him on Children's BBC back in the day and he has always come across as very likeable and I personally think he seems a genuinely nice person. But he works in a high pressure and lucrative industry and if things fall below the standard he expects then he may get angry and call people out but he'd only be doing it with the best intentions
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 17:54:10 GMT
I suspect lots of Gordon the gofa jokes are circulating in homaphobic circles But good luck to him and I wish him and the family all the best... surley its time he ditched day time telly and returned to musical theatre Are there that many suitable roles for Philip out there in Musical Theatre at his age? He could do Dr Doolittle again, could he carry off a Fagin type role? He wouldn't be right for Les Mis or have the vocal chops for it to be fair? I always thought he might eventually leave This Morning to be another musical but what it would be I don't know? |
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Post by Jon on Feb 7, 2020 17:57:35 GMT
Phil's on a lucrative golden handcuffs deal with ITV so returning to musical theatre won't be happening anytime soon.
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