Phillip Schofield can be seen claiming “disaster has struck” as his tent is destroyed by strong gusts of wind in a new clip from Cast Away, which sees him return to TV for the first time since 2023. In the clip from the upcoming Channel 5 show, the 62-year-old can be seen settling in for the night after his first day in Madagascar, which sees him setting up his tent, building a fire and hunting for food. In the middle of the night he is woken by a storm.
In the clip, Schofield says before going to sleep: “I want to catch a fish that makes me feel full. I am literally going to sleep as I’m holding this. “Anyway, there we go and I’ll see you tomorrow.
” The video then cuts to him waking up later in the night and saying: “Bloody hell, disaster has struck, howling wind blowing through everything, it’s taken out all the front (of my tent). “This (the tent) is about to tear itself to pieces and there’s still every possibility that it will. I wasn’t expecting that.
” The three-part show, Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, will see the former presenter marooned on a tropical island off the coast of the African country with a handful of cameras, following his near two-year absence from the limelight. In an earlier trailer for the series, the former This Morning presenter acknowledged not disclosing an affair with a younger colleague was “unwise” but questioned whether it should “absolutely destroy someone”. In the teaser, he says to camera: “I’ve been ca.