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UK TV presenter admits affair with much younger man - and steps down from ITV
Sky News ^ | By Guy Birchall, news reporter

Posted on 05/28/2023 5:04:03 AM PDT by RandFan

Phillip Schofield has admitted having an affair with a much younger male ITV employee while he was still married and revealed he is stepping down from all roles at the broadcaster.

His admission of the relationship, and that he had lied about it, came in a statement published in the Daily Mail shortly before his agents also revealed they were parting company with him with immediate effect.

ITV confirmed they have accepted his resignation and that he will no longer be appearing on the channel.

A spokesperson for the broadcaster said on Friday: "We are deeply disappointed by the admissions of deceit made tonight by Phillip Schofield.

"The relationships we have with those we work with are based on trust. Phillip made assurances to us which he now acknowledges were untrue and we feel badly let down.

"We accept his resignation from ITV and therefore can confirm that he will not be appearing on ITV as had previously been stated."

In his own statement, Mr Schofield said he was "deeply sorry" for lying about the relationship to ITV, his colleagues, friends and agents.

He said: "I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague at This Morning.

"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship.

"That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: guybirchall; hollywilloughby; itv; phillipschofield; thismorning; unitedkingdom
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A sordid tale... Looks like he's going to have a very long break from work.
1 posted on 05/28/2023 5:04:03 AM PDT by RandFan
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He be Toobin’


2 posted on 05/28/2023 5:09:54 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: RandFan

I guess the BBC doesn’t have the monopoly on perverts.


3 posted on 05/28/2023 5:10:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RandFan

In today’s “absolutely anything goes” world, why do these occasional Puritanical actions pop up?

So he boinked a young guy while he was married? So he boinked a co-worker? So he lied about it?

That makes him a modern man, doesn’t it?


4 posted on 05/28/2023 5:15:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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Stupid me…I thought of an older woman at first thought.


5 posted on 05/28/2023 5:15:02 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: dfwgator

Absolutely. It seems to be an issue in the industry?

Safeguarding young people should be a priority.


6 posted on 05/28/2023 5:16:02 AM PDT by RandFan
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Seems to be a pattern.

“Rumours of behind-the-scenes problems between the pair surfaced after his brother Tim Schofield was convicted of sexual activity with a child.”


7 posted on 05/28/2023 5:18:28 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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Yes his brother is in jail I believe and he disowned him.


8 posted on 05/28/2023 5:20:52 AM PDT by RandFan
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"Contrary to speculation, whilst I met the man when he was a teenager and was asked to help him to get into television, it was only after he started to work on the show that it became more than just a friendship."

"I helped a boy start his career, and he paid me with sex."

Very Classical Greek.

9 posted on 05/28/2023 5:29:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Toda la creacion pregona la grandeza del Senor.)
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To: RandFan

Another faggot on the fire


10 posted on 05/28/2023 5:37:09 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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More of them should feel shame instead of “pride”.
Frankly none of it should be tolerated.


11 posted on 05/28/2023 5:37:25 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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It dignifies homosexual behavior to call it an “affair”. But then, it also minimizes infidelity to use that term. I prefer the more descriptive terms of sodomy and adultery.


12 posted on 05/28/2023 5:39:55 AM PDT by Spok (“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”)
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Phillip Schofield with wife Stephanie Lowe & daughters Ruby(L), Molly(R) Lowe.


Phillip Schofield and Matthew Mcgreevy Relationship 2023

13 posted on 05/28/2023 5:43:34 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: RandFan

Seems to be an unusually high number of homosexuals in the national media of both the US and UK.


14 posted on 05/28/2023 5:45:18 AM PDT by jimwatx
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Indeed.


15 posted on 05/28/2023 5:54:01 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Is he married to a real woman?


16 posted on 05/28/2023 5:54:41 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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A supposedly heterosexual and married male has an affair with another male, and the word "gay" is mentioned in the press, but not the abbreviation B as found in the moniker, LGBT, for bi-sexual. The letter I think should be applied is not found in the political jargon. Promiscuous.

Promiscuity is rampant, and was when the Pauline revulsion of both same-sex behaviors and that separate category, effeminacy, were cataloged. Today's supposedly "liberal" side of both Judaism and Christianity have tried to wash away the old, in favor of the "progressive." Historically and before the advent of some sexual mores under attack now, such as the below were "normal" and today's progressives would normalize them again. As the article noted:

The article notes "his brother Tim Schofield was convicted of sexual activity with a child."

Promiscuity (and especially what some of us still think of as deviancy in all its forms and as is trying to be normalized) is really nothing more than the ancient world's standards as to sex reborn today officially.

Today's "progressives" are regressive.

17 posted on 05/28/2023 5:56:03 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Bounced2X
"with wife and daughters"

One observes that in Biden's administration is the whole transsexual craze, and centered on a like individual. Rachel/Robert Levine is the same story.

"Identity" politics turned into "fluid" identity confusion, then turned into public policy, as "influencers" like Mulvaney are brought in to advance the Biden-Obama cause.

18 posted on 05/28/2023 5:59:24 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: RandFan

His poor wife and kids. Those kids now know that daddy likes to sodomize young guys.


19 posted on 05/28/2023 6:04:56 AM PDT by tuffydoodle (When 2% of the country gets to tell everyone else how to live, that’s true oppression.)
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To: gitmo

At one time he was married to a woman, and had at least two children with her.
As the other poster said, I’m surprised the rest that British media appear to be judging and condemning him for this.
There might be some other reason he’s suddenly been declared as toxic. I don’t know what. Perhaps he just has the wrong enemies and someone has a grudge against him, someone with influence.


20 posted on 05/28/2023 6:07:45 AM PDT by lee martell
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