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SCHOFE’S FURY

Furious Phillip Schofield warns men ‘don’t be an arse’ after ‘pull a pig’ victim appears on This Morning

While there is certainly something to say about the story Philip was reacting to, I want to focus more on the reaction itself because Philip Schofield is mostly famous for his appearance on 'This Morning' a morning news show. This show is extremely family friendly and the target audience is mostly female housewives with children. While the word 'arse' isn't horrific by any means in the world of T.V for a news host to have such an evidently biased opinion and lose his cool like that, however good the reason, is quite bold. 

Compared to most instances of T.V personalities losing their cool, this is extremely tame. Recently, Jimmy Kimmel broke into tears on his show discussing the Vegas shooting. It is his show, so he probably has a lot more freedom to say what he likes than Philip does, but it's still quite a risk for somebody with such a huge audience like that to openly condemn certain political parties. I am very glad that more and more people with a large voice are using it to provide their opinions, even if they were to be completely wrong or unjustified. Discussion is discussion and I want to be past the days of hiding things for the sake of not offending anyone.