Ten Phillip Schofield claims that insiders have a VERY different version of - and which might change your view of his Cast Away 'pity party': KATIE HIND By Katie Hind Published: 01:52 BST, 5 October 2024 | Updated: 01:52 BST, 5 October 2024 e-mail View comments When Phillip Schofield flew out to Madagascar to film his new television series, there can be no doubt it was an audacious bid to rehabilitate himself – and that he viewed the show as a platform to tell his side of his downfall. More than a year after his admission that he had indulged in an affair with a much younger colleague – before lying to ITV , his friends, his family, and this newspaper about it – the three-part Channel 5 series Cast Away offered him a chance to settle some scores. He had, after all, fallen out with his bosses at the network, his former This Morning sofa sidekick and best friend Holly Willoughby , and his management team, YMU.
Yet his former co-workers are furious about some of his claims made onscreen and believe the programme, which has been widely regarded as nothing more than a 'pity party' for the broadcaster, is inaccurate. As they tell it, there are inconsistencies about how 62-year-old Schofield has presented his departure from the network last May. Phillip Schofield, 62, confessing on the Channel 5 survival show Cast Away which was filmed in Madagascar Schofield had fallen out with his bosses at ITV, his former This Morning sofa sidekick and best friend Holly Willough.