Phillip Schofield has revealed he misplaced a whopping 13lbs (6Kg) in simply ten days whereas residing on a desert island for his TV comeback.
The disgraced presenter, 60, secretly filmed a particular three half sequence for Channel 5, which required him to surrender his dwelling comforts of soul-searching on a tropical island within the Indian Ocean, which he described as his ‘story of survival’.
Will probably be the primary time Schofield has been on TV since leaving the ITV‘s This Morning in Could 2023 after admitting to having a relationship with a a lot youthful male colleague.
After filming over the summer time, he took to his Instagram Tales in a uncommon put up on Friday and shared a clip as he hit the gymnasium and lifted weight in a bid to achieve the burden he’d misplaced.
Writing: ‘Leg day. Placing again the 6kg I misplaced on the island with muscle… not carbs’.
Phillip Schofield, 60, has revealed he misplaced a whopping 13lbs (6Kg) whereas residing on a desert island for his TV comeback
The disgraced presenter secretly filmed a particular three half sequence for Channel 5, which required him to surrender his dwelling comforts of soul-searching on a tropical island
Phillip was backed by his former This Morning co-stars Dermot O’Leary, Alison Hammond and Josie Gibson as he introduced his TV return on Forged Away.
He shared the information on his Instagram with a teaser clip for the present which was favored by Alison, Dermot and Josie, in line with The Mirror.
Feedback on the put up had been turned off and there was no signal of his former shut buddy Holly Willoughby supporting him after he posted the announcement.
In the meantime Vanessa Feltz who usually stars on This Morning mentioned of the brand new present whereas speaking to The Solar: ‘I am stunned however delighted, and I hope it is nice leisure, and I hope that he achieves from it no matter he needs to realize.
‘I might prefer to see it, I am intrigued to see it and I want him all the easiest.’
‘I see why he would have chosen it, though it isn’t what I’d have anticipated. It appears to me that he would have autonomy over it, he’s the one individual in it, he was the one individual filming it.’
Eamonn Holmes nonetheless had a much less constructive response as he merely chuckled and sarcastically mentioned ‘superb’ because the information was mentioned on GB Information this week.
Unfastened Ladies’s Nadia Sawalha has additionally weighed in saying on her podcast: ‘The trailer was popping onto telephones all over yesterday and everybody was aghast.
After filming over the summer time, he took to his Instagram Tales in a uncommon put up on Friday and shared a clip as he hit the gymnasium and lifted weight in a bid to achieve the burden he’d misplaced
Writing: ‘Leg day. Placing again the 6kg I misplaced on the island with muscle… not carbs’
Will probably be the primary time Schofield has been on TV since leaving the ITV ‘s This Morning in Could 2023 after admitting to having a relationship with a a lot youthful male colleague (pictured on This Morning with Holly Willoughby in 2023)
‘Once I was first despatched it, there was no message with it, so I believed it was a joke.
‘I simply could not consider it. To start with, I cringed. If I am sincere, I completely cringed after I noticed that video. I believed ‘That’s so embarrassing’. That was my first feeling.’
‘I really feel he is advised his facet of the story. I really feel like we have solely heard his facet of the story as a result of he did that nice large unfold within the Solar and one other interviews.’
‘He is additionally very intelligent so I believe he understands an viewers and I believe he is aware of methods to communicate to an viewers. So I believe, sure, he’ll be very, very cautious.
‘He lied to everyone at work. He left individuals to take care of his s**t, I really feel, in my view.’
Phillip broke down in tears and mentioned the scandal round his departure from This Morning ‘destroyed’ him as he launched a trailer for his new TV survival present right now.
The scandal, which dominated the headlines for months, led to the breakdown of his friendship with co-presenter Holly and ‘devastated’ his spouse Steph.
The couple separated in 2020 when Phillip got here out as homosexual however had remained shut till his betrayal was revealed.
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.’
One clip from the showsees Schofield in tears telling the digital camera: ‘I do know what I did was unwise, however is it sufficient to fully destroy somebody?’
However whereas Schofield could hope the transfer will permit him to reconnect with viewers, the present has already been met with disdain by the general public and TV critics alike, with some it a ‘shame’ and branding the previous presenter ‘narcissistic’.
Viewers will see the axed presenter mirror 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 mild
One clip from the showsees Schofield in tears telling the digital camera: ‘I do know what I did was unwise, however is it sufficient to fully destroy somebody?”
He shared the information on his Instagram with a teaser clip for the present which was favored by Alison (left), Dermot and Josie, in line with The Mirror
Eamonn Holmes nonetheless had a much less constructive response as he merely chuckled and sarcastically mentioned ‘superb’ because the information was mentioned on GB Information this week
The sequence will air throughout three nights from Monday September 30 to Wednesday October 2, in three 60 minute instalments.
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 mirror 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 mild.
It is understood that Schofield was given a handheld digital camera, physique cameras and a sound pack earlier than being left to document his emotional week-and-a-half lengthy journey.
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 can backfire massively. Folks had been simply beginning to neglect, and now they’re raking all of it up once more.’
One mentioned: ‘There’s shameless. Completely shameless,’ whereas one other added: ‘How tke [sic] f*** is Phillip Schofield getting a television present? It is a shame.’
Scott Bryan added: ‘Fairly shocked by that Phillip Schofield present however then I remembered that that is Channel 5 so hardly not stunning.’
TalkTV presenter Renée Hoenderkamp branded the star as a ‘narcissist’, including that she didn’t assume he needs to be having anymore display screen time. She mentioned: ‘Is that this not an opportunity for a narcissist to only have extra me time on display screen? I do not need to know his story, I am not interested by it.’
In a press release to advertise the sequence 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 just lately had a variety of time to consider my life, what went proper and what went incorrect, however I’ve at all times had the secure arms of family and friends wrapped round me.’
Unfastened Ladies’s Nadia Sawalha has additionally weighed in saying on her podcast: ‘The trailer was popping onto telephones all over yesterday and everybody was aghast’
In the meantime Vanessa Feltz who usually stars on This Morning mentioned of the brand new present whereas speaking to The Solar: ‘I am stunned however delighted, and I hope it is nice leisure, and I hope that he achieves from it no matter he needs to realize’
Schofield will focus on his acrimonious departure from ITV and daytime present This Morning whereas fending for himself on the island, situated off the coast of Madagascar
Viewers will see the axed presenter focus on the emotional affect of his exile from mainstream
‘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 possibly I will simply be Tom Hank’s Wilson and quietly drift off into the wild blue yonder!!’
Whereas Phillip was alone on the island for ten days, the manufacturing staff had been stationed half-hour offshore, and had been advised 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.