The former 'This Morning' presenter is starring in 'Cast Away', where he has to survive alone on a desert island Reviewers have labelled Phillip Schofield’s television comeback as a “sea of self-pity” and the “biggest misjudgement since Prince Andrew”. The first of the three-part series Cast Away aired on Channel 5 on Monday (September 30), in which the former This Morning presenter spends ten days trying to survive on his own on an island in the Indian Ocean . Schofield, 62, resigned from ITV last year after admitting to an “unwise but not illegal” extramarital affair with a much younger man, and until this has kept a low public profile since the scandal broke.
With the reviews in for the opening episode, the reactions have not been kind. The Guardian giving the show two stars and saying it is hard to remember a show “as salivatingly anticipated”, but adding: “It’s one thing to fend for yourself in the middle of nowhere, quite another to do it without acting like the most bitter man ever to walk the Earth.” The Times , meanwhile, have described the show as “a sea of self-pity”, while The Independent compared it unfavourably to I’m A Celebrity.
..Get Me Out Of Here : “Here in this insular, low-rent man-vs-the-elements bout, Schofield still has to go hungry and defecate next to a tree, only without the giant ITV-sized pay cheque or the bantery chats with Ant and Dec.
” The Daily Mail said it “could be the biggest television misjudgement since .