Phillip Schofield is compelled to battle a raging storm in his new present Forged Away, with a brand new teaser clip for the Channel 5 present revealing how the star copes alone on the desert island.
The presenter introduced this week that he secretly filmed Forged Away, during which he lives on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean for 10 days, this summer season. The three-part sequence will air from Monday throughout three nights.
The brand new teaser reveals Phillip, 62, filming himself as he beds in for the night time in his makeshift camp.
The exhausted star tells the digicam how hungry he’s as he explains: ‘I wish to catch a fish that makes me really feel full. I’m actually going to sleep as I am holding this. Anyway, there we go and um I will see you tomorrow.’
Phillip Schofield is compelled to battle a raging storm in his new present Forged Away, with a brand new teaser clip for the Channel 5 present revealing how the star copes alone on the desert island
The presenter introduced this week that he secretly filmed Forged Away, during which he lives on a tropical island within the Indian Ocean for 10 days, this summer season
Reducing to 12:34am the footage then reveals a storm ravaging his camp as Phil shouts:
‘Bloody hell. Catastrophe has struck, howling wind blowing via every part, it is taken out all of the entrance.’
Persevering with the movie along with his night time imaginative and prescient digicam, the star’s tent may be seen struggling towards the wind as Phil tells viewers: ‘That is about to tear itself to items and there is nonetheless each risk that it’ll. I wasn’t anticipating that.’
Whereas Phillip was alone on the island for ten days, the manufacturing staff had been stationed half-hour offshore, and had been instructed solely to intervene within the occasion of an excessive emergency.
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.’
It is going to 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.
The scandal, which dominated the headlines for months, led to the breakdown of his friendship with co-presenter Holly Willoughby 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.
One clip from the present sees Schofield in tears telling the digicam: ‘I do know what I did was unwise, however is it sufficient to fully destroy somebody?’
The brand new teaser reveals Phillip, 62, filming himself as he beds in for the night time in his makeshift camp earlier than a storm hits within the early hours
Viewers will see the axed presenter talk about the emotional influence of his exile from mainstream
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 previous runner on This Morning got here to gentle.
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 numerous time to consider my life, what went proper and what went unsuitable, however I’ve at all times had the secure 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, attempting 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 will simply be Tom Hank’s Wilson and quietly drift off into the wild blue yonder!!’
Channel 5 Commissioning Editor, Man Davies, added: ‘This is not only a survival problem, it is likelihood 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 it will likely be Phillip Schofield as now we have by no means seen him earlier than – unguarded, emotional and brutally trustworthy…’.
‘This solitary island existence presents a possibility for Phillip to confront the challenges of complete isolation, the forces of nature and offers the time to battle inside his personal thoughts as he explores his personal controversial story.’
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.
He described their romance as ‘unwise however not unlawful’ and defined it came about throughout his practically 30-year marriage to Stephanie Lowe, with whom he’s a mum or dad to 2 youngsters.
Schofield subsequently resigned from both This Morning and ITV and said that he was ‘so very sorry’ to Lowe for being unfaithful.
On the time, it was reported that Steph had been left ‘devastated’ by the revelation and offended 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 part, ‘the love continues to be very a lot there.’
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
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 after represented her father.
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 mentioned: ‘He is testing the waters. However audiences are very forgiving.’
Schofield instructed 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 instructed how his two daughters – Molly and Ruby – had saved his life and had ‘guarded me and will not let me out of their sight’.