The three-part show, Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, will see the former presenter marooned alone on a tropical island off the coast of Madagascar with a handful of cameras following his nearly two-year absence from the limelight. In the teaser, he says to camera: “I’ve been cast away on a desert island, completely on my own, all I have is camera gear, and I can say whatever I want about whatever I want. “It’s my chance to tell my side of my story.
I know what I did was unwise, but is it enough to absolutely destroy someone?” The clip was interspersed with scenes of Schofield trying to find food and survive on the island. Announcing the new series on Wednesday, more than a year on from his resignation from ITV last May, he called the show his “story of survival, both on a desert island and off it” on Instagram. The series will air across three nights, from Monday until next Wednesday, and will see the former presenter getting to grips with isolation across 10 days and nine nights.
Channel 5 said the experience of Schofield being left alone allows him to “confront the challenges of total isolation, the forces of nature and provides the time to battle within his own mind as he explores his own controversial story”. Schofield said: “This is most definitely a first for me and the only thing I felt compelled to do. It appealed to me on so many levels.
“I’ve recently had a lot of time to think about my life, what went right and what went wrong, but I’ve alwa.