Schofield and ITV

[Puff Daddy]

He also said in that Amol Rajan interview, just before the news broke, he telephoned his wife and she wasn't very happy with him.

[bonzosbeard]

But do we hound a person who has made mistakes to suicide?

There was a lot about the Caroline Flack suicide at the time, and we have our own mental health thread.

He will never work in television again, but unlike us, or even released criminals, he will find it difficult to find any job or purpose to his life.

I'm not condoning how he acted with that boy, no way.

I just don't feel comfortable with the media witch hunt.

[Jonah]

Everyone has to have their pound of flesh Bonzos.

[djclipz]

He hasn't been arrested yet so I am not entirely sure why it is even news at this stage. If it gets that far, fine there is some plausible news to report on. We've had a primetime BBC interview over someone leaving their ITV job, what on earth is going on? It's free image management at this point. There are some far more important things i'd rather time was spent on until there is actually something to report. Unless we are at the point we can't trust the police to do their jobs whatsoever. It all seems a bit OK magazine to me.

[S-H]

But do we hound a person who has made mistakes to suicide?

There was a lot about the Caroline Flack suicide at the time, and we have our own mental health thread.

He will never work in television again, but unlike us, or even released criminals, he will find it difficult to find any job or purpose to his life.

I'm not condoning how he acted with that boy, no way.

I just don't feel comfortable with the media witch hunt.

It's a good point.

I can't stick the bloke, but then I can't stick a lot of people on TV.

ITV will no doubt lead the charge, if he were to top himself, with all the #BeKind b*llocks.

[sendô]

Come on, he's started the interview off by comparing himself to Caroline Flack.

It's classic narcissist behaviour, turning the tables to paint himself as the victim.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65775251

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

He hasn't been arrested yet so I am not entirely sure why it is even news at this stage. If it gets that far, fine there is some plausible news to report on. We've had a primetime BBC interview over someone leaving their ITV job, what on earth is going on? It's free image management at this point. There are some far more important things i'd rather time was spent on until there is actually something to report. Unless we are at the point we can't trust the police to do their jobs whatsoever. It all seems a bit OK magazine to me.

Bread and circuses mate. There's far more important issues in the world at the moment, yet this kind of **** dominates the media.

The world's a freak show and boy do the plebs love their freaks.

[ageing hammer]

the bloke has already admitted lying to cover his own arse

If he had done that he might not be in this mess

[claretandblue82]

Why vape during an interview? Is he trying to look trendy to the kids!! Make himself more appealing to them!

We all know what other pervert liked to have a puff in the public eye! Now then, now then!

[Alan Pardew's Dad]

But do we hound a person who has made mistakes to suicide?

There was a lot about the Caroline Flack suicide at the time, and we have our own mental health thread.

He will never work in television again, but unlike us, or even released criminals, he will find it difficult to find any job or purpose to his life.

I'm not condoning how he acted with that boy, no way.

I just don't feel comfortable with the media witch hunt.

This is the equivalent of a Minister caught shagging a junior staff member. It is an abuse of position and understandably would result in resignation or sacking.

I’d like to hear the young lad’s view on this and I hope the ITV investigation fully covers this. If he feels it was consensual and he wasn’t groomed, then that’s it. Time to leave the bloke alone.

[ageing hammer]

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[Monkeybubbles]

Bread and circuses mate. There's far more important issues in the world at the moment, yet this kind of **** dominates the media.

The world's a freak show and boy do the plebs love their freaks.

There are lots of things we don't agree on, but sometimes I honestly think I love you mate.

[Monkeybubbles]

This is the equivalent of a Minister caught shagging a junior staff member. It is an abuse of position and understandably would result in resignation or sacking.

Chris Pincher MP says hello.

[DaveWHU1964]

classic narcissist behaviour, turning the tables to paint himself as the victim.

Whether he is definitely a narcissist, you and I will never 100% know for sure, but yes, from afar, that's certainly how he is coming across.

He's in damage limitation, media management mode. He's putting across his narrative, or at least the best one he and his advisers could come up with, in the time and the circumstances he has. And you can see from Puff's post above that he is being as successful as he can in that attempt - what he is saying will chime with some. And that for him will be the best result he can muster. He knows his career with ITV and big players like the BBC is dead in the water. He's laying the ground-work for future employment with the likes of Channel 5 - I'd put money on him turning up there or somewhere similar in time.

My wife used to watch This Morning. She said that often they would have someone on it who saw aliens at the bottom of their garden or thought that they had been Napoleon in a previous life. That sort of thing. People who if they weren't attention seeking, or maybe really were Napoleon a couple of hundred years ago, seemed to have mental health issues. She said they were on there as a freak-show element as Philip, Holly and co let them make fools of themselves for the sake of 'entertainment'. And it's only now, when it involves him that he becomes aware of the dangers of media intrusion/ focus? I don't buy that.

[Hummer_I_mean_Hammer]

Yes Dave, we all believe that it was your "missus" who watched This Morning....

[Hummer_I_mean_Hammer]

Come on, he's started the interview off by comparing himself to Caroline Flack.

It's classic narcissist behaviour, turning the tables to paint himself as the victim.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65775251

Started to watch it, then just had to turn it off after bringing his daughters into it, can't see past someone who's had years of working in media and trying to get the audience on-side.

Hope I am right and he doesn't do anything stupid.

[delbert]

He said in that interview that the guy initially tweeted him and asked if he could follow him, when aged 15. Schofield, said, yeah, like whatever and then that was it. 4 years later, the guy aged 19, tweeted him again and said. Will it possible, for me to come along to look around the ITV studios, as sort of work experience. Schofield said, well yeah, that's alright and that was the beginning of their relationship. Schofield said, he kissed the guy in the dressing room and then a sex act took place, right there in the dressing room

Would he have been so accommodating if the kid had looked like plague victim?

I can see some interesting programming eventually coming along. A Barrymore and Schofield hosted challenge show where middle aged formally straight gays have to keep it a secret from their wives, or perhaps something like WAGS where we follow the ex wives of gay stars in a Wives of Gay Stars kinda thing, have to change the anacronym though.....

[Puff Daddy]

You can put your shirt on him being in the next series of I'm a celebrity, get me out of here'

[EvilC]

My wife used to watch This Morning. She said that often they would have someone on it who saw aliens at the bottom of their garden or thought that they had been Napoleon in a previous life. That sort of thing. People who if they weren't attention seeking, or maybe really were Napoleon a couple of hundred years ago, seemed to have mental health issues. She said they were on there as a freak-show element as Philip, Holly and co let them make fools of themselves for the sake of 'entertainment'. And it's only now, when it involves him that he becomes aware of the dangers of media intrusion/ focus? I don't buy that.

I walked past when the wife had it on in the kitchen once and they had some quack on there talking about crystals, energy and healing. At no point did anyone say "this stuff is all b*llocks and viewers should treat it as such", this person was allowed to raise their profile and sell more of their crap on the back of this. Schofield and Willoughby have got really wealthy doing this stuff - and I sort of don't blame them, because these sort of gigs probably don't come along too often and there are a long list of people ready to take their place.

Regarding Schofield, whoever told him not to lay low for a while instead of issuing an immediate mea culpa (sort of) might want to move into a different line of work. Because even if he is genuinely sorry, this doesn't look like that, it just looks like him doing some media firefighting.

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

There are lots of things we don't agree on, but sometimes I honestly think I love you mate.

Ease up, honky tonks. I can never love a man who drinks or has drunk wine.