Bottoms Are A Private Thing.

Why, in the name of Christ's kittens, is the fact that Philip Schofield had a fling with a co-worker at This Morning such a scandal/outrage/horror?

The colleague, said to be a runner on the TV show, WAS young - younger than Schofield -

but he was still of a legal, consenting age. So what's the problem?

It WAS a problem for the still-married-to-him Mrs Schofield. Affairs happen, discovering a partner is homosexual, or at least bisexual, happens. It's a private matter often settled in the divorce courts.

It WAS, perhaps, a problem for ITV's HR department, most companies having in place a "don't poke the payroll" policy. Warnings, written or verbal, usually follow. People are sometimes even sacked.

What, has ANY of this got to do with Joe and Josephine public or our rabid, disgusting tabloid press? NOTHING, that's what.

However, Schofield IS a celebrity. He IS, at the least, bisexual. Put those two together and the gutter press and the morons who pour over crap such as Hello and Chat magazines feel they have a divine right to lather themselves up in a frenzied bid to know every spit and cough of the "affair".

Their howlings of faux outrage lead to very public investigations, not least by ITV, into who knew what and when? Well, here's another interrogative - WHY? Here's another - WHO? Who, outside the Schofield family and the family of the runner should give a flying fuck?

But maybe I'm the only person not interested in the slightest, or who should be?