English television presenter Philip Schofield was BOTD in 1962. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, he grew up in Cornwall, where he started working in community radio. At 17 he moved to London to work for the BBC. In 1981, he moved with his family to New Zealand, where homosexuality was still a criminal offence. He became a national celebrity as the host of children’s after-school show Shazam!, and as a DJ for a regional radio network. He returned to the UK in 1985 to work for the BBC, presenting youth-focused shows Going Live! and Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. In the 1990s, he moved to ITV, where he hosted adult-oriented programmes and starred in a West End production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. In 2002, he ascended to television royalty, simultaneously hosting the BBC quiz show Test the Nation and ITV’s flagship breakfast programme This Morning. He went on to co-host the highly successful dance competition Dancing on Ice. In 2012, he was widely criticised for revealed a list of suspected pedophiles during a live interview with Prime Minister David Cameron, wrongly identifying several retired Tory politicians as child sex abusers. He was subsequently sued for libel by one of the politicians on his list, Lord McAlpine, settling out of court. Schofield married his partner Stephanie Lowe in 1993, with whom he has two daughters. In 2020, following a tabloid newspaper’s attempts to out him, he confirmed that he was gay and separated from Lowe. In 2023, it was revealed that Schofield had a long-term relationship with a male co-worker at ITV, while he was still married. Schofield admitted to meeting the boy when he was 15 and arranging a job for him at ITV, but denied allegations of grooming, insisting that their sexual relationship started when the boy was 20. Schofield was subsequently fired from ITV and dropped by his talent managers. He later blamed the media controversy on homophobia, arguing that an affair with a younger woman would not have caused such a scandal.