JAN MOIR: Sanctimonious Phillip Schofield disguised his narcissism behind a toothy white smile

Oh, now there is going to be a 調査(する). No sniggering at the 支援する. The smoke of スキャンダル (海,煙などが)飲み込むing Phillip Schofield, This Morning and ITV thickens by the day.

Now you can't see the 支持を得ようと努めるd for the trees nor indeed the birds from the bees. And there is not an aggrieved ex-presenter nor a bruised former guest who is not going to have their say in the pile on.

Between ますます 正規の/正選手 tweakments, Eamonn Holmes is beaming in from what looks like the panic room in a home for retired 錨,総合司会者s (both broadcast and 海軍の varieties) on the South Coast. Speaking of 激しい metal, Eamonn's perma-furious wife Ruth Langsford has 恐らく never 回復するd from the horror of Schofield cutting her off 中央の-宣告,判決 during a live link ten years ago.

Former pop 星/主役にする Kerry Katona says she was 'suicidal' after Schofield questioned her about her drinking during an interview, and on and on it goes.

No one, it seems, has a good word to say about the 不名誉d 星/主役にする, which says it all, really. Earlier in his career, Schofield famously broadcast from a BBC broom cupboard with his sidekick Gordon the Gopher, and in the light of 最近の 発覚s, isn't it time we heard Gordon's story, too?

ITV has brought in a top barrister to launch a probe into the scandal surrounding Philip Schofield (left) and Holly Willoughby (right)

ITV has brought in a 最高の,を越す barrister to 開始する,打ち上げる a 調査(する) into the スキャンダル surrounding Philip Schofield (left) and Holly Willoughby (権利)??

自白. There was a moment 早期に in 訴訟/進行s when yes, I tired of the This Morning スキャンダル. Talk about overblown! Or perhaps let's not, but was anyone really shocked that on a daytime television show, 星/主役にするs with big egos were not as nice as they appeared on 審査する?

Aren't we forgetting that Lorraine Kelly once went to 法廷,裁判所 to 証明する that she was a theatrical 建設する putting on a 業績/成果; method 事実上の/代理 her way through lentil recipes and pretending to be 利益/興味d in Aljaz and Janette's Slovenian babymoon?

Yet Schofield's duplicity was staggering in its depth and breadth. Sanctimonious on the sofa, he perfected a glutinous brand of narcissism disguised as altruism, all 配達するd with a toothy white smile.

Yet when the cameras were switched off, he somehow managed to 説得する さまざまな members of the television show and its 乗組員 into indulging him and 融通するing his then-secret lover, (許可,名誉などを)与えるing the young man status and 特権s he didn't deserve, in the time-honoured tradition.

Those in 力/強力にする behaving 不正に and using their 影響(力) in ways that are not 完全に proper? Get outta here. Next you will be telling me that a former British 首相 once tried to get a 職業 in the Foreign Office for his then-girlfriend.

I have worked in the newspaper 産業, magazine publishing and the music 商売/仕事, and behaviour like this, you will not be shocked to hear, is not unknown in all these spheres.

On the matrix where 青年, beauty and ambition 衝突する/食い違う with those in 当局 持つ/拘留するing the 重要な that 打ち明けるs the door to celebrity and riches, there will always be 関係s and trysts that are, to 引用する Schofield, unwise but not 違法な. When I was behind the scenes on a television programme in the 1980s, it was no secret that the teenage 女性(の) presenter was having an 事件/事情/状勢 with the much older 生産者 who may or may not have been married, I can't remember.

Eyebrows were certainly raised, 不賛成 was not in short 供給(する), but no one 本気で thought any party was 存在 groomed or いじめ(る)d. In fact, if anyone was 存在 terrorised into behaving inappropriately, it was the older man and not the 高度に 動機づけるd younger woman.

Philip Schofield stepped down from This Morning in May following revelations of his affair

Philip Schofield stepped 負かす/撃墜する from This Morning in May に引き続いて 発覚s of his 事件/事情/状勢?

However, what is different in this 事例/患者, what makes it much more troubling is the 欠如(する) of standardised 倫理学 across the ITV 網状組織 and how Schofield's 影響(力) became 普及(する). Unforgivably, he appears to have been given the freedom and space to encourage his lover to believe he had a 未来 in showbusiness ― although the expensive showreels This Morning were complicit in making tell a different, sadder Cinderfella story.

Now everyone is 存在 dragged into the sinkhole, 含むing St Holly the Mother Superior of the Blind 注目する,もくろむ Convent, and an entire television 網状組織. ITV 長,指導者s were quick to abandon and 非難する the likes of Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson for 表明するing an opinion that didn't perfectly coalesce with 訂正する woke-think.?

Yet, if the rumours are to be believed, they seemingly 許すd Phillip Schofield to pretend to be what he wasn't, to 嘘(をつく) to his wife and millions of This Morning テレビ視聴者s, to 始める,決める himself up as a moral exemplar but to 行為/法令/行動する like a despot behind his 自由主義の aura.

In showbusiness, as in life these days, it's who you are that counts, not what you say or do.

In the 合間, the 身元 of the broken young man at the centre of this スキャンダル is 一般に 存在 kept a secret, perhaps so that he can be left to 選ぶ up the pieces of his 粉々にするd life.

Yet it has to be said that when his 事件/事情/状勢 with Phillip Schofield 恐らく began he was an adult in 支配(する)/統制する of his faculties and surely 井戸/弁護士席 aware of the 可能性のある 相互の 利益s that the 関係 could bring?

Perhaps 正確に/まさに like my former associate from the 1980s?

It is hard to say what the truth of the 事柄 is, except that things certainly worked out better for her than for Phillip's friend. 井戸/弁護士席 done to the woman I will modestly 言及する to as 指名する Redacted, whose 星/主役にする 質 was never in any 疑問.

And now, 支援する to the studio.

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Shame on the sick ghouls who filmed a dying child?

A 17-year-old and a 12-year-old died after getting into difficulties in the water around Bournemouth Pier (pictured)

A 17-year-old and a 12-year-old died after getting into difficulties in the water around Bournemouth Pier (pictured)?

God bless all those who 急ぐd to the 援助(する) of the two y oungsters who died at a beach in Bournemouth this week.

Not just the 緊急 労働者s who tried 猛烈に to save them, but also those members of the public who stepped in to help. Like Bournemouth-born Dr 略奪する Rosa, a former GP.

He was on the promenade when the first child was brought to the beach and ran 負かす/撃墜する to help when the second was brought in from the sea around 15 minutes later.

He spoke of his disgust that some youngsters on shore 急ぐd over to film the 悲劇の events on their phones as medics tried to save the lives of the 犠牲者s.??

Dr Rosa said: 'Those ビデオing the desperate CPR 試みる/企てるs should think long and hard at their 活動/戦闘s. The 悲劇の death of a child is not something anyone should voyeuristically 観察する.'

全く agree ― but how to stop them? Everything is a 演劇 to these desensitised ばか者,雇い暴力団s. Even the darkest and saddest corners of the human experience are nothing but content for their TikTok channel or social マスコミ 壇・綱領・公約s.

いつかs it is hard not to 結論する that such a 欠如(する) of humanity will presage the end of humanity. And they'd probably want to film that, too.

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?And Just Like That...Kim 勇敢に立ち向かうs 再会?

Kim Cattrall will briefly reprise her iconic role as man-eater Samantha Jones

Kim Cattrall will 簡潔に reprise her iconic 役割 as man-eater Samantha Jones

Wonders do not 中止する. The actress Kim Cattrall once said she would never, ever return to Sex And The City, but now she is 支援する for one episode only in the sequel to the classic series.?

She will 簡潔に reprise her iconic 役割 as man-eater Samantha Jones in the finale of the second 一連の And Just Like That.

But will she have any scenes with Carrie, played by Sarah Jessica Parker? Yes, say insiders.?

This is にもかかわらず the two women 落ちるing out spectacularly over the script 質 ― or 欠如(する) of ― in the SATC movies.

However, relations are still on the Siberian 味方する of frosty, so the scene is going to be a phone call between the two characters.?

That way Kim (pictured) and SJP won't even have to 会合,会う or be tempted into a 一区切り/(ボクシングなどの)試合 of (designer) handbags in a 直面する-to-直面する シナリオ. Honestly.?

It's like Batman and The Joker all over again, only with marginally more subtle make-up.

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King's tip to 避ける a 苦痛 in the neck . . . visit Dracula's 追跡する

King Charles (pictured) enjoyed a walking holiday in Transylvania as Prince Harry arrived in the UK to head to court

King Charles (pictured) enjoyed a walking holiday in Transylvania as Prince Harry arrived in the UK to 長,率いる to 法廷,裁判所

King Charles has played an 絶対の blinder, 調書をとる/予約するing a walking holiday in Transylvania just as Prince Harry is 予定 to arrive in the UK for his 最新の 任命 in 法廷,裁判所.?

A walking holiday in Transylvania! It is the perfect excuse for any family occasion or social event you know you should …に出席する but 猛烈に want to 避ける.?

So sorry I can't come, I'm on a walking holiday in Transylvania. I hear the vampires are lovely at this time of year!?

Which reminds me. What do Prince Harry and Count Dracula have in ありふれた? You got it in one. They're both a 苦痛 in the neck.

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Comedian John Bishop (pictured) and his wife Mel celebrated their 30th anniversary this week

Comedian John Bishop (pictured) and his wife Mel celebrated their 30th 周年記念日 this week

John Bishop and his wife Mel celebrated their 30th 周年記念日 this week by taking their bridesmaids, 勧めるs, best man and themselves off for a lovely break at Soho Farmhouse ― what a loving and generous gesture.?

At the 周年記念日 party Mel hilariously wore her wedding dress and 隠す, both still fitted perfectly.

But best of all was the 尊敬の印 husband John 地位,任命するd online, which almost had me in 涙/ほころびs.

'It is amazing how quickly three 10年間s pass.

'In that time there has been a million laughs and a million 涙/ほころびs. Life doesn't always 従う with the perfect world that social マスコミ 現在のs ― no 事柄 who you are, there are days when it's hard to see a way through,' he wrote.?

'There are some things I wish I had done better and there are others that blow my mind because they went so 井戸/弁護士席.

'After 30 years of marriage the one lesson I have learnt is that I am a stronger, better man because she is the person who 持つ/拘留するs my 手渡す and guides me through when all I can see is 不明瞭. She still fits in the dress and my heart still fits in her pocket.'

Isn't that just lovely? Interestingly, the couple once 分裂(する) up ― but went to counsellors to get their 関係 支援する on 跡をつける.

So don't give up on love, people. いつかs you've just got to 持つ/拘留する on and fight for the 権利 person ― because it will be 価値(がある) it in the end.

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