Phillip Schofield has claimed he was betrayed by those close to him when details of his affair scandal emerged. The former presenter, 62, left ITV last year after admitting he had lied about having a consensual relationship with a younger man , who worked as a runner on This Morning . Schofield has alleged other TV presenters have done “exactly the same thing” as him and said he could “drive the same bus over so many people”.
Speaking on the forthcoming second episode of his comeback series Cast Away , which sees him trying to survive on an island in the Indian Ocean for 10 days, Schofield expresses his love for working at the Television Centre, the filming studios in London. “It was my greatest dream to walk into Television Centre,” he says. “At the age of 19, I became a bookings clerk at the BBC and I got a pass that got me into all of the BBC buildings.
“It was so magical to walk through those gates.” He explains: “I loved being there. Which meant that when what happened to me happened to me, it screwed up my favourite building in the world.
It pretty well blew away all those happy memories. Suddenly the place became hostile to me. And that was heartbreaking.
” Schofield left ITV last May after apologising for lying to the media, his friends and his colleagues about an affair with a younger man. The presenter said he helped the teenager secure work experience with the channel when he was around 19 but denied having any form of sexual contact with him u.