Phillip Schofield is returning to to mainstream TV after signing up for a brand new present – 16-months after his departure from This Morning.
The presenter has secretly filmed Channel 5 particular Solid Away, during which he lives on a tropical island within the Indian Ocean for 10 days.
Schofield, 62, will talk about his acrimonious departure from ITV and daytime present This Morning whereas fending for himself on the island, positioned off the coast of Madagascar.
Viewers will see the axed presenter talk about the emotional affect of his exile from mainstream TV after information of his affair with a 20-year previous runner on daytime present This Morning got here to gentle.
A supply advised The Sun: ‘Over the previous few months Phil has had fairly just a few provides for varied issues – however has steadfastly turned all of them down.
Phillip Schofield is returning to to mainstream TV after signing up for a brand new present – 16-months after his departure from This Morning
The presenter has secretly filmed Channel 5 particular Solid Away, during which he lives on a tropical island within the Indian Ocean for 10 days
‘This type of problem has all the time appealed to him although and after consulting with family and friends, he determined to go for it. It is all been high secret, and has been an extremely fast turnaround with a view to hold the information quiet.
‘After 42 years on telly, Phillip has learnt from some nice crews and groups on methods to movie and inform a narrative.’
The supply added: ‘With 10 days to himself, no digital camera crews or manufacturing round, he shot some unbelievably uncooked footage – a few of it makes for robust, emotional viewing.
‘However he needed an opportunity to share his story, unedited and trustworthy, and let viewers see one other facet to him.
‘While it is a large coup for Channel 5, and big for Phillip, he is in no rush to return again to TV full-time but; he stays very bruised, and is simply taking a while now to weigh issues up earlier than he makes any main choices.’
The three-part collection will air on Channel 5 from Monday night and might be Schofield’s first TV work since leaving This Morning underneath a cloud in 2023.
It was Might 2023 when the presenter admitted to having a relationship with a a lot youthful male colleague on This Morning, and later mendacity about it.
He described their romance as ‘unwise however not unlawful’ and defined it occurred throughout his practically 30-year marriage to Stephanie Lowe, with whom he’s a mother or father to 2 youngsters.
Schofield will talk about his acrimonious departure from ITV and daytime present This Morning whereas fending for himself on the island, positioned off the coast of Madagascar
Viewers will see the axed presenter talk about the emotional affect of his exile from mainstream
Schofield subsequently resigned from each This Morning and ITV and stated that he was ‘so very sorry’ to Lowe for being untrue.
On the time, it was reported that Steph had been left ‘devastated’ by the revelation and indignant that her husband had lied to her.
Nevertheless, it was later revealed she is selecting to not file for divorce as a result of she doesn’t need him to ‘fall any additional’ then he already has, and regardless of the whole lot, ‘the love continues to be very a lot there.’
In addition to the breakdown of his marriage, Schofield’s relationship with co-host Holly Willoughby faltered within the midst of the scandal, with the pair understood to be at loggerheads.
Schofield’s daughter Molly is now his publicist after she stop the expertise company that when represented her father.
The three-part collection will air on Channel 5 from Monday night and might be Schofield’s first TV work since leaving This Morning underneath a cloud in 2023
It was Might 2023 when the presenter admitted to having a relationship with a a lot youthful male colleague on This Morning, and later mendacity about it (pictured with co-host Holly Willoughby)
PR guru Mark Borkowski says his tepid return to the general public eye has come after a 12 months away to vanish and get himself collectively.
Calling him a uncommon expertise, Borkowski stated: ‘He is testing the waters. However audiences are very forgiving.’
Schofield advised the BBC in an emotional interview final June the affair had completed his profession and revealed that the fallout had left him feeling suicidal.
He advised how his two daughters – Molly and Ruby – had saved his life and had ‘guarded me and will not let me out of their sight’.
He admitted in the course of the sit-down interview with Amol Rajan denied he had groomed the youthful colleague, earlier than telling critics: ‘Would you like me to die? As a result of that is the place I’m.’
Schofield additionally insisted he had not ‘groomed’ his younger lover, regardless of first assembly him when he was 15.
He stated: ‘Attraction is attraction. It is no totally different within the homosexual world as it’s within the heterosexual world or within the lesbian world.
‘There should not be a distinction. That is the place homophobia is available in. We did first meet when he was 15, I visited the drama faculty [he attended].’
He stated the fallout from his admission that he lied about his affair with a youthful male colleague had been ‘relentless’, revealing he has had suicidal ideas.
Schofield stated: ‘My women saved my life. They stated final week they have not left me for a second. They have been by my facet each second as a result of they’re scared to let me out of their sight. What’s that like for daughters to should go together with one thing like that?
‘They usually stated to me, ‘do not you dare do that on our watch. We’re imagined to be taking care of you’. If my women hadn’t been there, I would not be right here, as a result of I do not see my future.’
Schofield additionally slammed ‘a handful of individuals’ with ‘persistently loud voices’ in an announcement days after leaving This Morning – and rejected claims of a ‘poisonous’ tradition on the programme.
The daytime present was plunged into meltdown since revelations over Schofield’s relationship with a a lot youthful man at ITV emerged with the channel dropping tens of millions of kilos in sponsorship offers and a few friends refusing to look on the couch.
However talking out on social media in Might 2023, Schofield hit out at these ‘with a grudge in opposition to me’.
In an announcement posted on his Instagram, the presenter stated: ‘Now I now not work on This Morning I’m free to say this. I hope you might have observed that it is the similar handful of individuals with a grudge in opposition to me or the present who appear to have the loudest voice.
‘This Morning IS one of the best present to work on, with one of the best folks. In all of the years I labored there there was no toxicity. You may take heed to these persistently loud voices for those who like.
‘However the hundreds of friends through the years, hundreds of workers and crew, lots of of presenters and contributors all comprehend it, it IS a household of great, proficient, form, laborious, working folks.’
Bosses at ITV revealed the a lot anticipated evaluation into the scandal and allegations of poisonous working tradition in December. It was carried out by an impartial lawyer, Jane Mulcahy KC.
One worker advised the Mail of their ‘sheer bewilderment’ that just one junior employee was conscious of the connection.
The report discovered that ITV didn’t cover-up the connection and that station bosses had made ‘appreciable efforts’ to find the reality in 2019 – 4 years earlier than the affair broke.
The exterior evaluation discovered that the channel was ‘unable to uncover the related proof’ till Schofield’s personal admission in Might 2023, when he advised the Mail that he had been having the connection and later lied about it.
ITV bosses have stated each Schofield and his former lover, a runner who has by no means been named, ‘repeatedly denied’ allegations of a relationship till the star dramatically stop ITV and formally apologised.
It added that just one individual out of 48 interviewed – a junior worker – stated they knew concerning the presenter’s relationship with a youthful male former colleague earlier than he revealed it in Might.
Mulcahy revealed that Schofield refused to participate within the evaluation into the circumstances surrounding the his departure due to ‘the danger to his well being’. She added that she was knowledgeable that the host’s psychological well being had since deteriorated.
Schofield’s former colleague and lover additionally declined to take part within the report.
Nevertheless, workers at ITV have been left cross, accusing the report of being a ‘waste of time’.
The findings did reveal that there was a tradition of silence on the channel, saying that junior staff at ITV’s This Morning nonetheless concern that talking out will harm their careers within the trade.