Philip Schofield

[PSRB]

To be honest, it never occurred to me that he wasn't a screaming bender. I'm more shocked to find that he had a wife and kids.

otherwise there would be no excuse for not slinging it up Holly Willoughby

[Burney]

otherwise there would be no excuse for not slinging it up Holly Willoughby

I do feel a bit bad that I realised Philip Schofield was gay apparently before he did. I feel as though if I'd just told him a few years ago, I could have saved him a lot of trouble.

[Yesterday Once More]

It could of course be a cunning way of getting to share a dressing-room with his co-host.

[Monty92]

I do feel a bit bad that I realised Philip Schofield was gay apparently before he did. I feel as though if I'd just told him a few years ago, I could have saved him a lot of trouble.

Why do men who live their lives as straight before later coming out escape accusations of homophobia?

Surely denying your own homosexuality out of shame or disgust is about as homophobic as it gets?

[Burney]

Why do men who live their lives as straight before later coming out escape accusations of homophobia?

Surely denying your own homosexuality out of shame or disgust is about as homophobic as it gets?

Dunno, but them's the rules. We've all got to say how stunning and brave it is to deceive your friends, wife and children for decades about the fact that you're a rapacious knob-gobbler before eventually coming out (usually because a paper's about to out you) and receiving a load of fawning adulation.

[PSRB]

Dunno, but them's the rules. We've all got to say how stunning and brave it is to deceive your friends, wife and children for decades about the fact that you're a rapacious knob-gobbler before eventually coming out (usually because a paper's about to out you) and receiving a load of fawning adulation.

The exact discussion we've just had in the office.

[Burney]

The exact discussion we've just had in the office.

I think it's also highly problematic of sodomites to culturally appropriate heterosexuality in this way.

[Monty92]

Dunno, but them's the rules. We've all got to say how stunning and brave it is to deceive your friends, wife and children for decades about the fact that you're a rapacious knob-gobbler before eventually coming out (usually because a paper's about to out you) and receiving a load of fawning adulation.

Quite.

But even in cases were a man hasn't so much deceived others but has simply been unable to come to terms with his own sexuality, surely this is cast-iron evidence of a deep-rooted homophobia?

I mean, he works in light daytime TV entertainment, for f*cks sake. He can hardly claim (as opposed to, say, footballers) that he feared a public backlash.

So Phil, what disgusted you so much about the idea of being gay?

[Burney]

Quite.

But even in cases were a man hasn't so much deceived others but has simply been unable to come to terms with his own sexuality, surely this is cast-iron evidence of a deep-rooted homophobia?

I mean, he works in light daytime TV entertainment industry, for f*cks sake. He can hardly claim (as opposed to, say, footballers) that he feared a public backlash.

So Phil, what disgusted you so much about the idea of being gay?

Oh, they can turn that back on us and say that they've internalised society's homophobia and that means that they're the victims really.

To be honest, though, I'm struggling with the fact that someone would go to all the trouble of living a lie for 27 years while being as camp as a row of tents. I mean if you wanted to pass yourself off as straight, wouldn't you try acting...y'know...straight?

[Monty92]

Oh, they can turn that back on us and say that they've internalised society's homophobia and that means that they're the victims really.

To be honest, though, I'm struggling with the fact that someone would go to all the trouble of living a lie for 27 years while being as camp as a row of tents. I mean if you wanted to pass yourself off as straight, wouldn't you try acting...y'know...straight?

Surely what's happened here is that he was basically bisexual, legitimately married a chick, had kids, but has now been caught by the press having an affair with a bloke?

But instead of confessing, he's gone for the far more sympathetic excuse that he's been living a heart-wrenching lie all these years out of shame and fear that he'll be ostracised by the notoriously homophobic...*checks notes*....world of light entertainment.