Phillip Schofield’s interview showed that lies catch up with you in the end

msn.com:

Phillip Schofield: The Interview, it was his turn to deliver a wretched mea culpa. What miserable viewing, to watch a man who has lost everything and knows he only has himself to blame.

This was not Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis on Newsnight, an encounter so disastrous that it strayed into the comical. Schofield told Amol Rajan that the love of his daughters was the only thing that has saved him from suicide. “I don’t see a future,” he said.

There were no tears, which somehow made the interview more alarming. So why do this at all? Presumably, Schofield’s advisers told him that it would be a good idea to do the interview and a companion piece in The Sun.

It’s hard to call it reputational management when the man arguably has no reputation left to salvage. Schofield said he was speaking out because the young man with whom he had his affair is “an innocent person who is vulnerable and didn’t do anything wrong”.