On 7 February 2020 TV presenter Phlip Schofield announced, on ITV’s This Morning that he is gay. Although Mr Schofield insisted that this was his own decision, the journalism website, Byline Investigates, has alleged that he was forced to come out as gay in order to “manage” a threatened Sun story about his private life. Continue reading
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