Has anyone really ever though he was straight? I was initially confused by his 'coming out' drama because I had just assumed he was gay since he first popped up on CBBC when I was a young teenager in the 80s and back then, it took quite a lot for me to figure stuff like that out so it must have been quite obvious. I never took any interest in him thereafter as he repelled me being such a phoney old 'professional' media type, so never knew he had a human shield wifey and kids baked into his image.
I've never known anyone who thought Schofield was anything other than a typical blow-dried, utterly vain, ageing pretty boy media gay anyway, that is if they gave him a second thought, which most didn't.