The 62-year-old former This Morning presenter will make his TV return in Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away. This is his first appearance on a TV series since he left ITV in May 2023 after he admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague. The three-part series will see him marooned on a tropical island off the coast of Madagascar with a handful of cameras and in the first episode viewers will see his shelter nearly being blown off on the first night as well him being lost at night and looking for crabs to eat.
Complete isolation. No comforts, no safety net. Phillip Schofield faces life on a remote island, learning to live in the unforgiving wilderness.
📺 Phillip Schofield Cast Away starts Monday 9pm on Channel 5 & My5 pic.twitter.com/tM9rJbEPWN Following his arrival at the small island of Nosy Ankarea, he reflects on how the survivalist experience is helping to empty what he calls his “toxicity tanks”.
He says he wants people to “bugger off and let me get on with the quiet life that you’ve all given me” and then reflects on how “dark” things became. Schofield had presented This Morning alongside Holly Willoughby since 2009 until his exit and in the first episode of his new survival series, he appears to hint that he considered suicide as he talks about when his daughters, Ruby and Molly, were looking after him. Speaking alone to the camera on the island, he says when he was in the media storm he “got so, so close, .