I get that you like him and enjoyed the show when he was on.When he was 15 he approached phil to ask him if he could help him to get into telly , being who he is he got him a job on this morning as a runner, it is like a internship which lots of young people do , he was 17 i think . When he was 19 they had a short fling . Phil came out as gay and the man was moved to loose women . It is right he has not been named so the papers cant splash his name and picture everywhere and out him when maybe he is not out , only twitter say he was paid off
Much of the above detail was from itv questioned at the select committe
He wasnt groomed in the way you are suggesting it , you might as well come out an call him a paedo , he clearly is not that else he would be in prison , this is where people prefer a screaming headline and not the detail or context
Anyway , i enjoyed the three docos he has done , last night he said it wad not the affair that he was sacked for, it was explained to him that with his brother being a paedo and jailed that the stigma included him and there was too much bad press about phil being his brother etc
make of that what you will
He is very good at presenting. Yet presenting is merely selling a "product" no matter how else it is dressed up.
I just found the whole very public"coming out" thing (with all the tears etc) as cringeworthy, and a desperate charade from a man who was crying for himself and his career just as much as his family.
I couldn't give a sod what his sexuality is, and no I don't think he is a peado. He met that 15 lad at the lad's drama school and was in a position of trust and power when they did become intimate some years later, but there was dialogue between the 2 for some years before that I believe.
With regards to the money here is a quote from the BBC;
"Lawyers for the star have confirmed he later helped pay his former lover's legal fees, as well as compensation for the loss of his job and home.
The arrangement came with a non-disclosure agreement for both sides."
Now how true that is I don't know, but it's certainly more than just a rumour off Twitter/X.
Anyway, I understand why you liked him. So did I once.
Yet that whole affair, and how he handled it (knowing there was more to come out), showed an ugly underbelly to what really was going on. In my opinion.