'If it was a straight guy in a fling with a young woman, it wouldn’t even make the papers' Sir Elton John has said the response to Phillip Schofield‘s affair with a younger male colleague was 'totally homophobic'
has previously claimed “explicit” anti-gay prejudice motivated false claims spreading about Schofield on social media, while media coverage had “more than a whiff of homophobia”.
He said: “Phillip Schofield’s younger partner was not a child. He was 20 years old when they began a consenting sexual relationship. The young man has made no complaint against Schofield. Yet people claim, without evidence, that he must have been abused. That is speculation and presumption, not fact.
“Schofield has not committed a crime. He lied to his employer and work colleagues and that is wrong but it is not a criminal offence. It is a matter between Schofield and his fellow employees, agents and bosses at ITV. It’s nobody else’s business.”host Jeremy Clarkson is also among those who have publicly questioned the so-called “witch hunt” that Schofield said left him feeling suicidal.
Piers Morgan also concluded that “unless Schofield’s ex-lover contradicts his version of events… then it’s time to stop this relentless persecution of a guy who’s lost everything and looks right on the edge to me”.
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