Gosh Philip Schofield gay, that was a shock to me anyway! He always looked like he had the perfect marriage with his wife Steph and two daughters and successful career. They been together for so long as well I’ve never heard any rumours in the press or ever suspected but there you go.

Give it another few years, and people will be " coming out" saying they are straight, I feel sorry for the young now, they are constantly being force fed stories and images about being gay, men kissing and tonging each other appears to be normal telly fare, brings to mind the old saying they don't know their arse from their elbows.

He's lived a lie for a long time. In fact , it's not even news, many probably picked up on his sexuality long ago. Let's just see if he suddenly has a new partner to be introduced to us by the media, in the not too distant future .
Hugs and kisses all around on the TV this morning. They're like a load of kids acting out the part .

Shakespeare : All the world's a stage , and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

All the hugs and kisses were because they are scared of saying how they really feel in case the homophobic card is thrown in. He has used his wife for 20 odd years because of his cowardice to admit what he is, then he had the gall to say he was proud of himself for coming out. Well done Philip, maybe you will get an award.

In 2012 David Cameron warned Schofield not to cause witch-hunts "particularly about people who are gay" .

I'll watch the money.

Well I for one was really shocked, whenever he spoke of Steph and seeing them together he seemed totally in love with her. I never saw anything to suggest he was gay. I suspect you’re right Granny , we will most probably see him soon with new partner. Watched the Michael Barrymore documentary and he was the same married for so long but gay. I suspect there are many more high profile living a lie and think we will be hearing alot more coming out as they say.

Well..... today it seems ,he knew 27 years ago when he got married , this is so wrong on many levels .I feel for his wife , he may love her but has . He deceived her for so long .He should have been honest with himself from the start. I I always wondered if he was gay , too pretty and femimine looking
for my taste .

Who cares? I have no more interested in the wretched fellow's sexuality than I have in the sex-life of woodlice. It is his and his families business not anyone else's and why he finds it necessary to tell us all about it is baffling. I can only suppose it is either to gain the congratulations from other media creatures for his 'bravery' in boring us with this news or a shameless publicity stunt.

As Oscar Wilde observed. "There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is NOT being talked about!"

I have to agree with Excoriator ...just can't see the point and feel sorry for his wife and kids ...I sometimes feel like shouting out ..I'm not gay !!!

I have to agree with Excoriator ...just can't see the point and feel sorry for his wife and kids ...I sometimes feel like shouting out ..I'm not gay !!!

I have to agree with Excoriator ...just can't see the point and feel sorry for his wife and kids ...I sometimes feel like shouting out ..I'm not gay !!!

The media describes him as brave, meaning I think the cats going to be let out of the bag soon, better jump first, he was gay when he married, so he used his wife and family life as a cover of respectability for 27 years, the ultimate betrayal.

Watching Dancing on Ice last night which he hosts with Holly, he needs to get some weight on,,he looked so thin practically skeletal. Apparently he’s lost alot of weight over all this... Think he had to come out and tell everybody because he’s so high profile every time you put tv on its him presenting,adverts etc that it was obviously going to come out and better coming straight from him than newspapers etc....
The way they really pushing gayness in everybody’s face I don’t feel it’s helping the cause and most prob causing more homophobia than ever. I was so glad to see H and Matt from dancing on ice go out last night, it was so cringy watching them H last week dressed as a swan couldn’t watch hardly.

Yes indeed things have gone full circle, from being a crime to a protected species, gone are the days of post cards in a shop window reading Friends of Dorothy, join and enlarge the circle of your friends, Oooh missus.

So he's gay who cares it seems you can't be a male tv presenter unless you're gay, now it seem we have the vegans taking over so by 2050 their will be no babies being born and people hiding in corners eating burgers out of brown bags.

you are funny at times, Casper.

Cools, I had to see who you were talking about. H and Matt ? Never heard of them, and don't watch dancing on ice, but I bet there's a hidden secret between that and Philip .

Here's a quote from Matt :

Evers, who was married to a woman previously, came out as gay in January 2018 in an interview with Attitude magazine. He said it was partly the death of his uncle from AIDS and the presidency of Donald Trump that resulted in his decision to announce his sexuality publicly, saying: "I live my life by example, and I want to show young people that what you feel or how you were born isn't something bad."


Now then ... let's hazard a guess at what might follow ! Come to daddy ?

so..some serious child birth is needed...think it might need an MOT but will do my best!


brought it on himself but do worry that he and his alleged boyfriend might break under the pressure....and see suicide as a way out of their "pain".

Think we will have to put up with Schofe outing himself and Coronavirus for at least another 2 weeks..unless we can find some other juicy news to replace it. My top 3 in no order would be 1 Trump assassination, 2) Prince Philip dies, 3) major terrorist attack (short odds on that)

Hi Fish. Were have you been hiding.

no 3 in your prophecy of doom could be not far removed from what is about to transpire in the ME.

When Damascus falls !

We could always send Phil, brave, courageous, legend, as Corporal Jones used to say they don't like it up them.

Hi Granny ......been in quarantine..caught the facebook bug...very nasty. Twas a social experiment dipping into the world of trolls, keyboard warriors. The names and stuff you get called for daring to question anything . Nice to see the same old faces on Wiki...a much classier level of debate..Not been following the ME just getting over Post Brexit Trauma.

Doubt , Casper. It would take brave, courageous Phil far too long to figure out what was going on.

Pleased to know you have managed to float back into the world of normality. ( as normal as it could get) Welcome home, good to see you, but don't expect too much, things are very slow on here these days.

BPTSD , affected us all I think , Casper's still suffering , so be gentle with him.

Probably best not to delve into the ME , it's pretty gruesome with more threats flying than missiles . My friend has disappeared from communication, and I'm worried. He'd not long moved to a house and settled his family. Last thing I heard was he'd had to move all his animals sheep, goats, horses, dogs, chickens etc. and family away to a place of safety , prior to the SAA re-taking of the town nearby.


Anyway, it's not news like our Philip's news. That has certainly raised the stakes for his future career