Disgraced anchor Phillip Schofield, who resigned from ITV‘s “This Morning” in 2023 after confessting to an afequitable with a PA, is structurening a return to television.
Schofield has filmed a new show for U.K. PSB Channel 5 called “Cast Away,” in which he is marooned on an island csurrfinisher Madagascar for 10 days. The series will inestablishedly see him talking about his precipitous descfinish from grace, from one of ITV’s best-comprehendn faces to industry outcast.
“Now you comprehend how I spent my Summer! Alone for 10 days, no food, no water, no crew. My story of survival, both on a desert island and off it,” the TV anchor wrote on Instagram on Wednesday morning.
The show is set to air in the U.K. on Monday, Sept. 30.
Until his downdescfinish, Schofield was a mainstay of magazine establishat show “This Morning,” which he had fronted for over 20 years, the last decade or so alengthyside his co-star Holly Willoughby. After a accessible misstep around the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral — the duo were accengaged of jumping the 13-hour-lengthy line to see her coffin; they claimed they were there for labor — animosity towards the pair began to prolong, resurfacing elderly rumors about Schofield’s afequitable with a youthful colleague.
After Schofield’s youthfuler brother, Timothy, was convicted of intimacyual offences involving a child, which saw the anchor diseunite from screen for three weeks, the rumor mill went into crescfinisho, especipartner after it eunited Schofield had been made conscious of Timothy’s crimes before he was arrested but had not gone to the police. Willoughby was shelp to be “blindsided” and their once seal frifinishship crumbled, making their professional one untallow. Schofield stepped down from “This Morning” the adhereing month before finpartner confessting to an “unwise but not illhorrible” afequitable with a youthful PA on the show, whom he’d helped get a job at ITV when the PA was 19 years elderly.
The descfinish-out was seismic for Schofield, who was dropped by his agency as well as ITV. ITV went on to carry out an outside appraise to resettle whether they should have been more prodynamic in dealing with the laborplace afequitable as well as a inestablishedly “harmful” atmosphere on the show’s set.
