Schofield has been totally dishonest, not courageous
For about the past six months Phillip Schofield had had nothing but bad press. There had been a series of headlines about him falling out with fellow presenters and accusations of backstage bullying. So it was quite the performance he put on for the This Morning viewers when he came out the other day. Interesting timing. Did it not seem convenient to anyone else that he announced he was gay at this time, just when his national treasure, ‘Saint Schofield’ status was being challenged? He’s made himself almost untouchable, like he’s covered himself with Teflon.
I cannot understand the outpouring of superlatives and support he’s been getting.
‘Brave’. ‘Hero’. ‘Stunningly brave’. ‘Courageous’. What rubbish! Some might call it brave. I call it dishonest.
And as for being a ‘hero’ for stringing along his wife and children for 27 years? Give me a break. He has deceived her. She’s been cheated out of the best years of her life with a whopper of a lie.
If he had left his wife for another woman there would be hell to pay in the media. Tabloid headlines like ‘Sordid double life’ or ‘Love-rat Schofield’ would be everywhere. But because he fancies men it’s fine.
I’ve never liked Schofield, I have always thought he was a horrible man, albeit from my armchair, and this little episode has reaffirmed how unpleasant he is.
Not because of who he chooses to sleep with, for coming out as gay is hardly big news nowadays when you have people identifying as aliens and toasters and falling in love with aeroplanes. But it sums up the character of the man.
And I can’t believe that on live TV, with his children and wife watching at home, he was being asked about looking forward to future relationships. How disrespectful. No thoughts for his family. It was all about the vain, narcissist himself.
I find it strange that we live in times when everyone is going on about loyalty, yet people are fawning about how courageous he’s been and he is being championed for being disloyal to his family.