Channel 5 fans fume 'won't be watching' as Phillip Schofield confirms TV return

Phillip Schofield volition marque his explosive instrumentality to TV adjacent week conscionable 16 months aft helium near This Morning.

Channel 5 has sparked a backlash among viewers with galore claiming they "won't beryllium watching" aft the broadcaster announced Phillip Schofield's comeback to TV.

Next week, Phillip volition instrumentality to tv successful an exclusive three-part bid for Channel 5. Making his archetypal tv quality successful implicit 12 months, the erstwhile This Morning big volition archer his ain idiosyncratic communicative successful an emotionally charged endurance acquisition titled Phillip Schofield Cast Away.

The three-part bid volition aerial crossed 3 nights from Monday, September 30, to Wednesday, October 2. It volition travel Phillip arsenic helium is formed distant for 10 days and 9 nights connected a remote, unpopulated land disconnected the seashore of Madagascar.

The synopsis for the bid reads: "Phillip is near unsocial with lone a fistful of cameras to papers his ain experience. This solitary land beingness presents an accidental for Phillip to face the challenges of full isolation, the forces of quality and provides the clip to conflict wrong his ain caput arsenic helium explores his ain arguable story.

"While Phillip is unsocial connected the land the accumulation squad volition beryllium stationed 30 minutes offshore, lone to intervene successful the lawsuit of an utmost emergency. Phillip’s intelligence wellness and carnal information is monitored arsenic the acquisition progresses."

In the abbreviated trailer for the programme, Phillip tin beryllium heard saying: "It is my accidental to archer my broadside of the story. I cognize what I did was unwise, but is it capable to perfectly destruct someone?"

Speaking astir his comeback, Phillip began: "This is astir decidedly a archetypal for maine and the lone happening I felt compelled to do. It appealed to maine connected truthful galore levels. I’ve precocious had a batch of clip to deliberation astir my life, what went close and what went wrong, but I’ve ever had the harmless arms of friends and household wrapped astir me.

"This clip it’s conscionable me, nary ‘phone, nary comforts, nary unit and lone articulator balm arsenic a luxury. I’m looking guardant to exploring the island, trying to necktie knots to unafraid my structure and foraging and fending for myself successful the chaotic … with nary help. Maybe I’ll beryllium Robinson Crusoe, oregon possibly I’ll conscionable beryllium Tom Hank’s Wilson and softly drift disconnected into the chaotic bluish yonder!”

Channel 5 Commissioning Editor, Guy Davies added: “This isn’t conscionable a endurance challenge, it’s accidental for Phillip to look backmost implicit the past explosive 18 months of his life, and research what happened.

"The assemblage volition larn however helium feels present astir tv and the future, arsenic good arsenic the past. And it volition beryllium Phillip Schofield arsenic we person ne'er seen him earlier – unguarded, affectional and brutally honest…”

However, the announcement has sparked a beardown absorption online, and portion galore are pleased to spot Phillip instrumentality to screens, different viewers are refusing to ticker the programme.

Taking to X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, 1 aggravated instrumentality wrote: "Shame connected Channel 5 giving Phillip Schofield a way backmost onto British TV. Hopefully, it backfires spectacularly. By the looks of things, it looks similar it's already backfiring."

"I won't beryllium watching the Phillip Schofield pity enactment connected Channel 5. And I don't judge helium turned down amended offers," different commented.

"I person perfectly nary volition of watching this," a 3rd added portion idiosyncratic other agreed: "I won't beryllium watching Phillip Schofield connected immoderate channel. I anticipation Channel 5 didn't wage him much."

Another asked: "Why did Channel 5 springiness Phillip Schofield the accidental to instrumentality to television?"

Stepping successful to support Phillip, 1 instrumentality penned: "Fair enough. Give Phillip Schofield different chance. A pistillate would beryllium fixed different chance, wherefore not a man?"

Phillip Schofield Castaway volition statesman adjacent Monday connected Channel 5.