“Two consenting adults blah blah.” Okay. Right.
Except the young man here was a runner on a TV show that Phil had presented for nearly the entire time the young man had been alive. He was just starting out in his career. He wasn’t very accomplished in that sense, he didn’t have much life experience, and he wasn’t really someone Phillip could have related to in any meaningful way. There was one notable thing about him, which was that he was very young. We all see that and Richard Bacon and Rupert Everett are wrong ‘un apologists at best. I also wonder about a former children’s TV presenter rushing to defend a former children’s presenter from, at best, “unwise” behaviour.
Perhaps even if not technically illegal we can agree Schofield should have been sacked years ago? Unless we are all fine with junior employees being used and discarded. Let’s remember the earlier detail: the runner at Loose Women lost his job so the young man PS had had sex with, then lost interest in, could take his role. Oh yes, not illegal. That’s all right then.
too little too late. The damage is done to the poor victim here.
crash of drums, a flash of spite
