Phillip Schofield has damaged his silence on his TV return after asserting he’ll star in his personal survival present.
The disgraced presenter has secretly a particular three half collection for Channel 5, which required him to surrender his residence comforts for 10 days of soul-searching on a tropical island within the Indian Ocean.
Posting on Instagram on Wednesday morning, the star shared pictures selling the brand new present Phillip Schofield: Forged Away as he informed followers: ‘Now you understand how I spent my Summer season! Alone for 10 days, no meals, no water, no crew.’
‘My story of survival, each on a desert island and off it. Forged Away begins Monday on @channel5 & My5 at 9pm.’
Schofield, 62, will talk about his bitter parting of how with ITV and This Morning, which he hosted for 21 years, whereas fending for himself on the island paradise, positioned off the coast of Madagascar.
Phillip Schofield has damaged his silence on his TV return. Posting on Instagram on Wednesday morning, the star shared pictures selling his Channel 5 present Forged Away
The presenter has secretly filmed Channel 5 particular Forged Away, which required him to surrender his residence comforts for 10 days of soul-searching on a tropical island within the Indian Ocean
He informed his followers: ‘Now you understand how I spent my Summer season! Alone for 10 days, no meals, no water, no crew’
The collection will air throughout three nights from Monday September 30 to Tuesday October 1, in three 60 minute installements.
It follows Phillip as he’s forged 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replicate on the emotional affect of his exile from mainstream TV after information of his affair with a 20-year outdated runner on This Morning got here to gentle.
It is understood that Schofield was given a handheld digital camera, physique cameras and a sound pack earlier than being left to file his emotional week-and-a-half lengthy journey.
In a press release to advertise the collection Phil mentioned: ‘That is most positively a primary for me and the one factor I felt compelled to do.’
‘It appealed to me on so many ranges. I’ve not too long ago had a variety of time to consider my life, what went proper and what went fallacious, however I’ve at all times had the protected arms of family and friends wrapped round me.’
‘This time it is simply me, no ‘cellphone, no comforts, no crew and solely lip balm as a luxurious. I am trying ahead to exploring the island, making an attempt to tie knots to safe my shelter and foraging and fending for myself within the wild … with no assist.’
‘Possibly I will be Robinson Crusoe, or perhaps I am going to simply be Tom Hank’s Wilson and quietly drift off into the wild blue yonder!!’
Phillip Schofield is returning 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 Forged Away, wherein he lives on a tropical island within the Indian Ocean for 10 days
Channel 5 Commissioning Editor, Man Davies, added: ‘This is not only a survival problem, it is probability for Phillip to look again over the past explosive 18 months of his life, and discover what occurred.’
‘The viewers will find out how he feels now about tv and the long run, in addition to the previous. And will probably be Phillip Schofield as we have now by no means seen him earlier than – unguarded, emotional and brutally sincere…’.
Billed as ‘an genuine and intense bodily and psychological problem’ Channel 5 have confirmed that Phillip was’left alone with solely a handful of cameras to doc his personal expertise.’
‘This solitary island existence presents a chance for Phillip to confront the challenges of whole isolation, the forces of nature and offers the time to battle inside his personal thoughts as he explores his personal controversial story.’
Whereas Phillip was alone on the island for ten days, the manufacturing group had been stationed half-hour offshore, and had been informed solely to intervene within the occasion of an excessive emergency.
Phillip’s psychological well being and bodily security had been monitored because the expertise progressed.
The TV comeback has been met with disdain by the general public with one declaring: ‘If that is designed to make individuals really feel sorry for him, it should backfire massively. Individuals had been simply beginning to neglect, and now they’re raking all of it up once more.’
‘There’s shameless. Completely shameless. And Phillip Schofield’.
A supply informed The Sun: ‘Over the previous few months Phil has had fairly just a few gives for varied issues – however has steadfastly turned all of them down.
‘This type of problem has at all times 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 as a way to maintain the information quiet.
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
‘After 42 years on telly, Phillip has learnt from some nice crews and groups on tips on how 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 powerful, emotional viewing.
‘However he wished an opportunity to share his story, unedited and sincere, and let viewers see one other facet to him.
‘While this can be a large coup for Channel 5, and large for Phillip, he is in no rush to come back 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 selections.’
The three-part collection will air on Channel 5 from Monday night and shall be Schofield’s first TV work since leaving This Morning underneath a cloud in 2023.
It was Could 2023 when the presenter admitted to having a relationship with a a lot youthful male colleague on This Morning, and later mendacity about it.
Viewers will see the axed presenter talk about the emotional affect of his exile from mainstream
He described their romance as ‘unwise however not unlawful’ and defined it happened throughout his almost 30-year marriage to Stephanie Lowe, with whom he’s a dad or mum to 2 youngsters.
Schofield subsequently resigned from each This Morning and ITV and mentioned 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.
Nonetheless, 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 every little thing, ‘the love remains 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 give up the expertise company that after represented her father.
The three-part collection will air on Channel 5 from Monday night and shall be Schofield’s first TV work since leaving This Morning underneath a cloud in 2023
It was Could 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 yr away to vanish and get himself collectively.
Calling him a uncommon expertise, Borkowski mentioned: ‘He is testing the waters. However audiences are very forgiving.’
Schofield informed 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 informed 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 mentioned: ‘Attraction is attraction. It is no completely 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 college [he attended].’
Schofield along with his spouse Stephanie Lowe and daughters Molly – who’s now his publicist – and Ruby in London in 2018
He mentioned 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 mentioned: ‘My women saved my life. They mentioned 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 along with one thing like that?
‘And so they mentioned 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 a press release 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 shedding thousands and thousands of kilos in sponsorship offers and a few company refusing to look on the couch.
However talking out on social media in Could 2023, Schofield hit out at these ‘with a grudge in opposition to me’.
In a press release posted on his Instagram, the presenter mentioned: ‘Now I not work on This Morning I’m free to say this. I hope you could 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 the perfect present to work on, with the perfect individuals. In all of the years I labored there there was no toxicity. You’ll be able to take heed to these persistently loud voices in the event you like.
‘However the 1000’s of company over time, 1000’s of employees and crew, a whole lot of presenters and contributors all understand it, it IS a household of fantastic, gifted, form, laborious, working individuals.’
Shamed TV presenter Schofield speaks to the BBC’s media editor Amol Rajan about his affair
Bosses at ITV printed the a lot anticipated evaluate into the scandal and allegations of poisonous working tradition in December. It was carried out by an unbiased lawyer, Jane Mulcahy KC.
One worker informed 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 evaluate discovered that the channel was ‘unable to uncover the related proof’ till Schofield’s personal admission in Could 2023, when he informed the Mail that he had been having the connection and later lied about it.
ITV bosses have mentioned 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 give up ITV and formally apologised.
It added that just one particular person out of 48 interviewed – a junior worker – mentioned they knew concerning the presenter’s relationship with a youthful male former colleague earlier than he revealed it in Could.
Mulcahy revealed that Schofield refused to participate within the evaluate 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.
Nonetheless, employees 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.