It has been over a yr since Phillip Schofield left This Morning in a cloud of scandal – after he admitted to having an affair with a a lot youthful male colleague.
However after being absent from TV screens for 16 months, Phillip is about to return subsequent week for Channel 5’s Forged Away.
Billed as ‘an genuine and intense bodily and psychological problem’ Channel 5 confirmed that Phillip was ‘left alone with solely a handful of cameras to doc his personal expertise’.
Asserting the information on Instagram on Wednesday, Phillip wrote: ‘Now you know the way I spent my Summer time! Alone for 10 days, no meals, no water, no crew. My story of survival, each on a desert island and off it.’
However what has the presenter’s life regarded like since he stepped away from the display screen?
From drafting in PR assist from his household to reuniting with movie star buddies, right here, MailOnline takes a glance again at Phillip’s yr off the air – forward of his imminent return.
It has been over a yr since Phillip Schofield left This Morning in a cloud of scandal – after he admitted to having an affair with a a lot youthful male colleague
From drafting in PR assist from his household to reuniting with ITV buddies, right here, MailOnline takes a glance again at Phillip’s yr off the air – forward of his imminent return
‘Story of survival’ TV comeback
Phillip broke down in tears in a trailer for the upcoming ‘survival’ present, as he stated the scandal round his departure from This Morning ‘destroyed’ him.
The disgraced presenter spent his summer time secretly filming a particular three half sequence for Channel 5, which required him to surrender his dwelling comforts for 10 days of soul-searching on a tropical island within the Indian Ocean. He described it as his ‘story of survival’.
One clip from the present, launched as we speak, sees Phillip in tears telling the digicam: ‘I do know what I did was unwise, however is it sufficient to utterly destroy somebody?’
The sequence will air throughout three nights from Monday September 30 to Tuesday October 1, in three 60 minute instalments.
Phillip broke down in tears in a trailer for the upcoming ‘survival’ present, as he stated the scandal round his departure from This Morning ‘destroyed’ him
It follows Phillip as he’s solid away for ten days and 9 nights on a distant, unpopulated island off the coast of Madagascar.
Viewers will see the axed presenter replicate on the emotional influence of his exile from mainstream TV after information of his affair with a 20-year-old runner on This Morning got here to mild.
It is understood that Phillip was given a handheld digicam, physique cameras and a sound pack earlier than being left to document his emotional week-and-a-half lengthy journey.
Drafting in household PR assist
Phillip was swiftly dropped by his brokers at YMU Group final yr after he admitted his affair with a youthful staffer.
But it surely appears his daughter has stepped as much as the plate and brought over as his supervisor.
Phillip tasked his daughter Molly, 30, with the pleasure of representing him – turning his model right into a household one.
On expertise database The Media Eye, Molly is listed as Phil’s supervisor and it appears she is now running her own firm called MMS Projects.
Her first undertaking gave the impression to be curating a brand new optimistic picture on-line for Phil, it was revealed beforehand.
Phillip was swiftly dropped by his brokers at YMU Group final yr after he admitted his affair with a youthful staffer – but it surely appears his daughter has stepped as much as the plate and brought over as his supervisor (Pictured in August 2022)
Amid studies he’s eyeing up a brand new profession in tv, Phil returned to posting on his Instagram earlier this yr, positioning his dog Alfie front and centre.
Till January this yr, Molly labored at YMU, the expertise company that represented Phil for 35 years.
Uncomfortably, it was reported that she was within the workplace when she discovered her dad had confessed to his affair with a younger male runner on This Morning.
Reuniting with movie star buddies
Whereas absent from British TV screens, Phillip has been supported by his movie star buddies since leaving the channel.
In Could, Phillip joined I’m A Celebrity host Declan Donnelly for a discreet four-hour dinner and drinks.
The dinner occurred near the fallen star’s West London dwelling and also becoming a member of the guffawing pair for dinner was Dec’s spouse Ali Astall and Phillip’s pet pooch.
But it surely’s not simply Ant who is claimed to have supported the star over the past yr, as a supply defined beforehand Alison Hammond was additionally in his nook.
The present This Morning presenter confirmed her help for Phillip in June when she preferred an Instagram publish, an image of his pet pooch.
In Could, Phillip joined I am A Celeb host Declan Donnelly for a discreet four-hour dinner and drinks, because it was revealed he was being supported by mates from ITV
Phillip and Dec’s dinner is the primary time the pair have been seen publicly collectively because the This Morning scandal.
Onlookers reported that the pair regarded in good spirits and have been seen laughing and joking collectively prefer it was an atypical night time out.
A buddy of the presenter revealed Phil’s plans for a potential return to TV as they spoke of his ITV mates’ help.
They stated: ‘They’ve all been rallying round him and their help, particularly from Dec who’s such buddy, has actually helped Phil. Some TV executives have been in contact with Phil a few potential return and his mates have instructed him he ought to contemplate it.
One other buddy by Phillip’s aspect was Vanessa Feltz – with the pair noticed smiling on an evening out collectively final summer time.
The pair have been seen as they left the Little Fowl restaurant in Chiswick, West London, with Phillip serving to his long-term buddy into her automobile earlier than departing on foot.
In snaps of the outing, Phillip appeared to pay attention intensely to Vanessa as they walked to her automobile, earlier than waving her off with a cheerful goodbye, forward of her stint presenting This Morning.
One other buddy by Phillip’s aspect was Vanessa Feltz – with the pair noticed smiling on an evening out collectively final summer time
Promoting ‘plush’ flat used for ‘secret trysts’
In February it was revealed that Phillip had bought the flat the place he used to spend ‘Playtime Thursdays’ with his younger lover, after slashing the asking value.
Phillip and his spouse Stephanie have been stated to have put the ‘immaculate’ two-bedroom penthouse in south London available on the market for £1.2million – £25,000 lower than they paid in 2012 when it had simply been constructed.
And in an inventory by property agent Cluttons it has since been described as ‘sale agreed’ – after they have been promoting it for ‘affords in extra of £1million’.
The property was the place Schofield would take his junior colleague for secret trysts earlier than the studio runner left the following morning in a taxi paid for by ITV, his former colleague Eamonn Holmes claimed.
‘It has been available on the market for some time now. Apparently there was one provide not too long ago however the purchaser dropped out,’ a supply instructed The Sun final yr.
In February it was revealed that Phillip had bought the flat the place he used to spend ‘Playtime Thursdays’ along with his youthful lover, after slashing the asking value (Pictured within the residence)
‘It looks as if the Schofields at the moment are unfussed about making a revenue and simply need rid of it since their cut up.’
In an interview with Dan Wootton on GB Information, Holmes claimed Schofield’s lover was secretly ferried between ITV’s studios and the presenter’s flat in an attempt to hide their affair.
The pair are stated to have entered by means of an adjoining resort to keep away from any suspicions of their secret trysts.
Eamonn stated: ‘Thursday was playtime when he and Phillip would hit the city after which he clearly stayed in a single day. There are information to point out that he was introduced within the subsequent day individually in automobiles paid for by ITV.’
Calling the youthful man ‘pretty’, and a ‘actually good proficient fella’, he stated the taxi to work on a Friday morning was a part of a ‘cover-up’ by ITV bosses.