[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Swan

Him being gay has nothing to do with it, thousands of straight men are dirty old pervs, just like Schofield. Sexuality shouldn't come into it.

I can't stand The Big Bang Theory, but have watched Young Sheldon in the past. The girl who plays Sheldon's sister is now 16, so "legal" in the UK. If Peirs Morgan had an affair with her most people would think it absolutely disgusting, and a complete abuse of power on his part. Same thing here with Schofield. You only defend him because he's gay. Says more about you than anything else really.

Morally it's revolting, and just sick tbh. The story is even more disgusting considering Phil met him as a 12 year old, and got him a job, then waited until he was 16 to shag him. It's fcuked up.

I agree that it's morally a bit of a weird situation, that I personally would never get myself involved in, even if I thought that the 16-17 year old was attractive, I just wouldn't do it due to the age gap (which I never envisioned myself as the older figure in this type of scenario before, it's kind of weird.)

However, as far as any of us are aware of, he didn't go and have sex with this guy at 12 years old (thank god) and at least waited until he was of legal age, because unfortunately there are Celebs who don't wait.

My point being, that we as a society need to pick our battles in Showbiz, and Philip Schofield isn't someone that concerns me personally.