I've heard a few tabloid mutterings suggesting that Phil might be a sex pest.
I don't buy it, though. It reeks of latent homophobia, further bolstered by the revelations about his brother's noncery.
The whole Phil/Holly situation is utterly bizarre. I've always found the pair of them to be reasonably pleasant - if somewhat bland - daytime television hosts. Then 'queuegate' happened, and the entire population of the UK seemed to simultaneously turn on them. It seems that since that point, there's been nothing but a campaign of character assassination directed at the pair of them. Fucking odd.
(, Sun 21 May 2023, 8:50, Reply)
The public love to pile onto whichever target Murdoch etc decide to nominate, deserved or not.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 21 May 2023, 8:58,
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Well there were all the allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a 15 year old showrunner. He did a Kevin Spacey and came out, except unlike Spacey he actually got away with it.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 21 May 2023, 10:30,
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It's not really something I've taken a massive amount of interest in.
But weren't the rumours of grooming just unsubstantiated gossip?
My understanding was that the showrunner had been mentored by Phil after starting work with ITV and that it hadn't become a sexual relationship until some time after (prompting Phil's rather abrupt, public coming out).
I'd certainly agree that getting into a relationship with somebody you had previously mentored is massively inappropriate/unprofessional, but again, I suspect that the rumours that anything sexual was taking place when the showrunner was underage, or that Philip was deliberately grooming this individual are nonsense fuelled by homophobia, his nonce brother and fucking 'queuegate'. I think comparing him to Spacey is maybe a little unfair
(, Sun 21 May 2023, 10:52, Reply)
#Paedobrothergate
#Notbeingupfrontwithhollygate
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 21 May 2023, 11:23,
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Phil is stunning and brave for deceiving his wife for 27 years and leaving his kids
You could say that he did a runner.
He also failed to report his brother to the rozzers when he knew he was diddling a young boy. All in all he isn't someone I would call of good character.
(, Sun 21 May 2023, 14:42, Reply)
Knowing that you're gay and accepting that you're gay are two very different things.
(, Sun 21 May 2023, 16:09, Reply)
Personally I don't care whether he is gay or not
It's just more than a little nauseating that he is being held up as "brave" for publicly humiliating his family. No-one seems to give a monkeys about them, including him. If he wasn't gay and had just left them for a young girl would anyone be quite so forgiving? Or if he had been seeing the girl when she was a teenager? It's the double standards that is hard to take.
As for Gordon the Gopher, what secrets does he know?
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Whatever, mate. Cheating on your wife with a bird or a bloke is, in essence, the same thing, so give the “it’s all homophobia” bollocks a rest.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 21 May 2023, 22:40,
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i wouldnt get too judgey until you meet the wife
might have been a harridan who drove him gay
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 22 May 2023, 5:38,
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