Schofield finished

I’ve purposely kept quiet as I have a few friends in the good morning team.

I don’t care that he’s gay. It should be no big deal but I’m sure it will have influenced his decision to lie.

It’s morally wrong that he cheated on his wife, of course but we’d have to write off about 30% of society as a wrong ‘un if that’s the boundary for being a terrible person. We don’t know if this was a one off affair or it was repeated, or if they had developed into an open marriage.

What I’m uncomfortable about is that he was virtually a kid and someone in a position of responsibility got him a job regardless if it’s a man with a girl, a man with a boy or a woman with boy or girl, it’s someone using their fame/power to manipulate how a non-fully formed mind perceives them. I find that a very dark behaviour.
 
BoroMart said:
I’ve purposely kept quiet as I have a few friends in the good morning team.

I don’t care that he’s gay. It should be no big deal but I’m sure it will have influenced his decision to lie.

It’s morally wrong that he cheated on his wife, of course but we’d have to write off about 30% of society as a wrong ‘un if that’s the boundary for being a terrible person. We don’t know if this was a one off affair or it was repeated, or if they had developed into an open marriage.

What I’m uncomfortable about is that he was virtually a kid and someone in a position of responsibility got him a job regardless if it’s a man with a girl, a man with a boy or a woman with boy or girl, it’s someone using their fame/power to manipulate how a non-fully formed mind perceives them. I find that a very dark behaviour.
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I've chosen my words carefully too on here, but the question that inevitably people are going to ask themselves is when the relationship between them went from a platonic one to something else?

It's entirely possible that it was at legal age of course, but the context still leaves my very uncomfortable if it was.
 
Jonny Ingbar said:
I've chosen my words carefully too on here, but the question that inevitably people are going to ask themselves is when the relationship between them went from a platonic one to something else?

It's entirely possible that it was at legal age of course, but the context still leaves my very uncomfortable if it was.
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Agreed, that’s the natural question, personally I’m not going to stray into the speculation.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
There's an element of needing to know more info to undertand just how bad it is, but even if he broke no laws, there is still something pretty weird about getting him the job and starting the relationship at 18 and the link to his brother wont do him any favours, but that's besides the issue. Something can be legal, but still morally wrong - see Paul Breach.
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Agreed and something can be legal and still breech the code of conduct of your employer.
 
InglebyUTB said:
I still find it staggering people are trying to defend Schofield. He’s left a show he was on for 20+ years with zero pomp and ceremony, no goodbye, no thank you, just gone. The show may now have to be cancelled to remove the stain of his legacy.

There’s a whole host of former colleagues taking aim at him, Willoughby is doing all she can to distance herself from him, ITV has cut all ties with him as is his long-term agency.

Do people really think all that is over a relationship he had with a younger person?

There’s a lot more on this to come out, the media are currently reporting the tip of the iceberg.

The creep’s career is done, over.
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These people defending Schofield are SCUM (n)
 
BoroMart said:
I’ve purposely kept quiet as I have a few friends in the good morning team.

I don’t care that he’s gay. It should be no big deal but I’m sure it will have influenced his decision to lie.

It’s morally wrong that he cheated on his wife, of course but we’d have to write off about 30% of society as a wrong ‘un if that’s the boundary for being a terrible person. We don’t know if this was a one off affair or it was repeated, or if they had developed into an open marriage.

What I’m uncomfortable about is that he was virtually a kid and someone in a position of responsibility got him a job regardless if it’s a man with a girl, a man with a boy or a woman with boy or girl, it’s someone using their fame/power to manipulate how a non-fully formed mind perceives them. I find that a very dark behaviour.
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30 per cent of society - they are probably cheating with the same sex as their partner. The fact he’s deceived her for 27 years or whatever is disposable. And to think he tried to garner the sympathy vote for being so brave in coming out! And yes we don’t know when the relationship started but feels like grooming to me!
 
Laughing said:
Dear me. No one is defending him on here. Wanting a due process and not assuming he is a child groomer based on flyme speculation doesn't make you scum.
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Exactly that, there’s lots of wild speculation and some maybe true, it may all be false, or anything in between.

None of us know, and very little fact is public domain. We know there was enough for a ten year friendship to disintegrate and him to lose his job, but that maybe the lying, the friendship with his wife, or r a whole host of things that caused that.

I will wait and see if there is any form of police investigation before wading in on that side. I will I’m always very uncomfortable for anyone to date a much younger work colleague in a much junior position. That always feels like an abuse of position
 
Redka said:
30 per cent of society - they are probably cheating with the same sex as their partner.
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That’s not relevant to anything. unless you are a homophobe that feels that it’s a greater sin. Cheating with a guy is not worse than cheating with a girl. Both are a betrayal of trust and marriage. The sex of the person really isn’t relevant


Redka said:
The fact he’s deceived her for 27 years or whatever is disposable.
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What exactly has he deceived for 27 years? He had babies with her, he was capable of having a heterosexual relationship. Who knows when he became aware and became accepting of being attracted to men. His entirety of his life is the life of a bisexual. At moments in his life you (and he) can describe him as hetro, bi or gay.
 
BoroMart said:
That’s not relevant to anything. unless you are a homophobe that feels that it’s a greater sin. Cheating with a guy is not worse than cheating with a girl. Both are a betrayal of trust and marriage. The sex of the person really isn’t relevant

Ask the people being cheated on whether it’s relevant - I expect you’d find that 100 per cent would find it relevant and the reaction and the betrayal felt would be different - nothing to do with being homophobic.
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It’s everything to do so th being homophobic, when it boils down to it, you either cheated or didn’t.

It was you that brought up the cheating on someone of a different sex as some factor that made it morally worse, not the victim of cheating.
 
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