Vanessa Feltz has addressed her former This Morning co-star and ‘good friend’ Phillip Schofield ’s huge return to television, warning it could be a ‘risk’. After 16 months of laying low since quitting the ITV programme and confessing his ‘unwise but not illegal’ affair , Schofield is returning to the limelight . The 62-year-old has vowed to ‘tell my side of the story’ and ‘say whatever I want about whatever I want,’ while he faces isolation for ten days on Cast Away.
‘My story of survival, both on a desert island and off it,’ he announced, adding: ‘I know what I did was unwise, but is it enough to absolutely destroy someone?’ Vanessa, 62, has now admitted she thinks his reality TV stint could be a ‘risk’, but is throwing her support behind him. The Celebs Go Dating star told Metro.co.
uk: ‘I just think whatever he does to make him feel better, I wish him all the luck in the world. ‘Obviously I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know how he copes in isolation for all those days, and whether it turns out to be a good thing or a bad thing. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video ‘Any reality TV show anyone does is a risk, that’s the whole point, you could come out brilliantly and everyone could fall in love with you and you could impress them to the max.
’ She went on: ‘But he is a very seasoned TV professional, and I really hope that it’s the right thing for him, and .