THREE KEY FACTS: Phillip Schofield returns to television with a new Channel 5 series, Phillip Schofield: Cast Away . Schofield’s comeback follows his departure from This Morning after admitting to lying about an affair. Reality TV has a mixed history of offering redemption, with past examples such as Michael Barrymore and Ellen DeGeneres Ben Lawrence is a commissioning editor for the Telegraph Media Group OPINION Does Phillip Schofield have a hinterland? We’ll soon find out, as he returns to British television for a new Channel 5 series called Phillip Schofield: Cast Away .
Note that title: the New Zealand-born television presenter is certainly a castaway, and will be spending 10 nights alone on a remote island off the coast of Madagascar. But he is also “cast away” – a nod to the vituperation heaped on him by the press and public after he admitted lying to co-workers, friends, families and lawyers about his affair with a younger male colleague..
