Phillip Schofield has hit back at reports he quit his role on This Morning following his widely reported affair scandal. The former presenter, 62, will address the controversy in a three-part Channel 5 series, titled Cast Away , which sees him spend 10 days trying to survive on an island in the Indian Ocean. It will mark the presenter’s first return to TV since he admitted to having an affair with a younger male colleague he worked with on ITV’s This Morning , which led to his departure from the daily chat show.
In the first Cast Away episode, seen by The Independent , a series producer asks Schofield how he’d feel if he couldn’t cope with island life, to which he replies: “Oh it is inconceivable that I would quit.” He then seemingly references his This Morning departure, adding: “I’m fired but I never quit.” Elsewhere in the programme, Schofield discusses the difficulties of filming the Cast Away series without the public finding out.
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Get Me Out of Here jungle for the forthcoming series, which will be hosted once again by double act Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly. “I’m apparently four to one [odds] to do the other jungle programme,” Schofield says from his home in London before heading to the Cast Away island. “Now, although my best mates host it, there are some channels you just won’t work for,” he adds of his relationship with ITV .
“There are just some people you won.