[TomC]

Originally Posted by parmnion

I think you will find its nearer 40

A majority of people wanted homosexuality recriminalised just 33 years ago in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, just to set the record straight.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by TomC

A majority of people wanted homosexuality recriminalised just 33 years ago in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, just to set the record straight.

Post the poll.

[Cherie]

Odd that supportive Steph who has allegedly been privvy to this information for years has remained silent, maybe shes been too busy today and will support him in public tomorrow

[TomC]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Post the poll.

It was a poll The Sun took in 1987 and the headline was ‘You Say - Outlaw the gays’. I’m just trying to make clear that people haven’t been unanimously okay with gays for long, and certainly not in the 80s.

[thesheriff443]

Wife said she had her suspicions when he said can I call you Dave.

[Zizu]

Just seem the This Morning clip and he doesn’t look well at all .. he looked suddenly older and thinner in the face ..


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[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Just seem the This Morning clip and he doesn’t look well at all .. he looked suddenly older and thinner in the face ..


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He's looked like that for a long while now. He does say he's struggled for the "last few years" so this explains it. His mental health had deteriorated due to it.

[GoldHeart]

He's looked like that for some time , but I don't watch morning show .

[Marsh.]

The hot tub comment from Eamonn was quite telling too tbh. Sounds like it's an "arrangement" in their marriage that has been the case for a long time.

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

The hot tub comment from Eamonn was quite telling too tbh. Sounds like it's an "arrangement" in their marriage that has been the case for a long time.

I thought people said there was no mention of him playing away.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

I thought people said there was no mention of him playing away.

There isn't.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

The hot tub comment from Eamonn was quite telling too tbh. Sounds like it's an "arrangement" in their marriage that has been the case for a long time.

Apparently that was a joke, the ‘fans’ are up in arms with Eamonn making a few light hearted comments, but Phil has thanked him for lightening the mood

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Apparently that was a joke, the ‘fans’ are up in arms with Eamonn making a few light hearted comments, but Phil has thanked him for lightening the mood

Was it?
I know the "thought you were resigning" one was but the hot tub seemed more sincere.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Was it?
I know the "thought you were resigning" one was but the hot tub seemed more sincere.

I have had to watch this now to see, it was definitely an off the cuff joke, you just don't understand top Irish bantz

[bots]

in my experience, anyone that promotes the sickly sweet notion that everything is perfect in a relationship is talking through their ass.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I have had to watch this now to see, it was definitely an off the cuff joke, you just don't understand top Irish bantz

Well, I got that it was a joke but made of things that actually happen.

Their families holiday/party together regularly so I can definitely see them 'hot-tubbing'.

[Barry.]

Good on him!

[arista]

[MB.]

Between the Mirror and the Sun, I've come to the shocking realisation that tabloids have no idea how to use an ellipsis properly

[Ammi]

...I’m coming to terms with it, MB...

[Ammi]

...to...terms with...it..

[James]

I noticed this article, relevant to what you've been talking about in this thread, about women who find out about their husbands after many years of marriage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51413187

[Ammi]

...I’d literally just read that, James.....I’ve been looking at stories of people who ‘came out’ later in life, from both sides of the relationship if they’ve had a long term relationship/marriage...maybe for some, it’s something that they ‘block’, so there lives can still feel fairly complete until they start to realise an emptiness they’d pushed to the side before...especially as with someone like Philip Scofield, who has had so much in his life to focus on...his life has been so filled with great opportunities/great working life/great family/great friends etc...so that enabling that sub conscious blocking to become easier and to be sustained through much time...

...there’s a great quote from an author, which feels as though it might apply...


...’the greatest illusion’ said the mole...’is that life should be perfect’...

[thesheriff443]

It’s funny how all the ficus is on poor Phil being gay but having to hide it, he has been lying to his wife of 27 years.

He was asked was he gay back in the nineties had he ever slept with a man and was his marriage to hide the fact he was gay.


We don’t know the full details of how long his wife knew but making Phil out a tormented soul is utter crap.

He has got it off his little chest but left his wife now to deal with it.

[Lewismacfarlane]

Well done to Philip for the interview yesterday hope he and his family get the respect they deserve