Schofield says Cast Away is his last TV appearance

Just implicit 15 months ago, erstwhile tv presenter Phillip Schofield told the BBC that his vocation was finished.

He had conscionable near ITV, aft admitting to an matter with a younger worker astatine the company, astir which helium had lied.

Many had expected Schofield to discontinue tv for bully and helium subsequently disappeared from the spotlight.

That was until earlier this week, erstwhile it was announced he would beryllium taking part successful Channel 5's Cast Away.

The 62-year-old has already filmed the series, wherever helium was stranded connected an land adjacent Madagascar for 10 days and forced to fend for himself, uncovering his ain food, h2o and shelter.

The BBC was fixed beforehand viewing of the archetypal 2 of 3 episodes.

One of the opening shots of the archetypal occurrence is Schofield sitting having a household barbecue with his woman Stephanie Lowe and his 2 daughters Molly and Ruby.

"We've seen him astatine his lowest times, but I've been truthful arrogant of him," Molly says.

Interviews with his household are spliced betwixt land scenes, with his sexuality discussed successful detail.

During the archetypal occurrence connected the island, Schofield talks astir "living your beingness to the implicit fullest" and inactive having "the emotion of my family", which helium says has "never wavered".

This is discussed successful narration to Schofield coming retired arsenic cheery successful February 2020 connected Instagram, and past discussing his announcement with his past co-host Holly Willoughby connected ITV's This Morning.

Molly describes his coming retired arsenic "very hard for me, precise hard for the full household - chiefly my mum of course", and says that "everything was turned upside down".

She says that successful the clip since helium came out, things person got a batch amended for the household - calling herself the "luckiest idiosyncratic ever" due to the fact that her parents stay champion friends.

Schofield, who presented This Morning from 2009 to 2023, does a batch of reflecting connected the island, talking into the camera astir his vocation connected the signifier and successful television, and what it has been similar down the scenes since his nationalist autumn from grace.

He says helium has gone to the land to bare his "toxicity tanks" and asks that radical fto him get connected "with the quiescent beingness you've each fixed me".

The presenter says helium has lone gone retired successful nationalist to be to his gravely sick parent since helium discontinue ITV, and admits helium considered termination erstwhile things got "dark".

"I got so, truthful close, I had everything successful place, everything was acceptable up and everything was ready."

He added: "Molly said, 'Do you ideate what this would bash to america if you really managed to propulsion this off? Imagine what would happen. Can you ideate what it would bash to maine if you did this connected my watch?', and that was conscionable capable to instrumentality a measurement backmost from the edge.

"I could person been hospitalised. I had the enactment to beryllium hospitalised, but past I thought, that's going to get out. So I conscionable raced to the household location and unopen the gates."

Schofield maintains that his matter with a younger antheral workfellow was "unwise but not illegal", and says, during the 2nd episode, that helium "made beingness pugnacious for the radical I emotion the most".

He appears to person not moved connected wholly from his exit from ITV and media successful general, saying: "I've been chucked nether a bus.

"I could thrust the aforesaid autobus implicit truthful galore people, but I'm not that benignant of person, I ne'er person been."

Schofield does not sanction anyone specifically isolated from his erstwhile absorption agency, who we cognize to beryllium YMU, who represented him for much than 30 years.

"I was suicidal, similar virtually 1 propulsion and I'm done and they sent maine what looked similar a chopped and pasted substance similar 'this clip we person to fto you go'," helium adds.

He besides points the digit astatine 3 "cowards" helium worked with successful TV - "one who ne'er stepped up successful queuegate", "one who ne'er stepped up erstwhile I was being battered by that 1 journalist" and "one [who] is conscionable brand-orientated".

His "queue" remark references the nationalist backlash helium faced erstwhile helium and Willoughby skipped a queue of up to 20 hours to sojourn Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state.

As Schofield navigates time 4 and 5 connected the island, his evident hunger and deficiency of structure look to instrumentality their toll.

Hunting astatine nighttime for crabs and avoiding being bitten by achromatic widow spiders, helium tells the cameras: "I'll beryllium slammed for this Phillip Schofield huffy rant."

His quality is changing too, an unkempt beard and soiled apparel a acold outcry from his polished greeting TV look.

"But the happening is, I don't attraction immoderate more, this is maine having my accidental arsenic I bow out," helium adds.

Filming himself from antithetic angles, helium says helium has "nothing to lose" by appearing connected Cast Away, arsenic "they've taken beauteous overmuch everything. Reputation, dignity, legacy, everything".

"I americium loving what I'm uncovering retired astir myself, I'm loving each time and erstwhile I get connected that vessel and I permission here, I volition cognize that I did my champion and I said my piece," helium adds.