‘I was thrown under the bus’, blasts Phillip Schofield in veiled dig at Holly Willoughby after ITV scandal

PHILLIP Schofield tells connected his caller amusement however determination are parts of TV helium does not miss — arsenic helium makes a drawstring of jibes astatine his erstwhile This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby.

The telly veteran, 62, opens up connected his bombshell exit from ITV up of being sent to a godforsaken land for Channel 5 documentary Cast Away.

Phillip discusses however helium was forced to permission This Morning aft 22 years pursuing a fling with a overmuch younger runner — and hints astatine a deficiency of enactment from his long-time person and co-host Holly, 43.

He says: “I miss parts of being connected TV certainly. I miss astir of it, if I’m honest, I miss astir of it. But determination are bits that I really, really, truly don’t miss.

“You larn a batch astir people, I don’t miss that.”

He adds successful the show, starting connected Monday: “When you propulsion idiosyncratic nether a bus, you’ve got to person a truly bloody bully crushed to bash it.”

Phillip besides appeared to mock the cringeworthy infinitesimal erstwhile Holly broached the taxable of his departure connected This Morning, arsenic she bizarrely opened the amusement with the words: “Are you OK?”

He is seen having a household barbecue successful the plot of his London location and handing nutrient to woman Stephanie Lowe and their daughters Molly, 31, and Ruby, 28.

As helium does truthful helium laughs: “If you’re OK, past we’re OK, and I’m OK …are you OK?”

Holly - who is ne'er mentioned by sanction - is not the lone people successful the programme, which volition tally implicit 3 consecutive nights.

In different country helium appears to sever ties with his erstwhile employers ITV, wherever helium worked for decades connected a drawstring of shows including Dancing On Ice.

He says: “I’m seemingly 4 to 1 to bash the different jungle programme (ITV’s I’m A Celebrity)

“Although my champion mates big it, determination are immoderate channels you conscionable won’t enactment for.

“There are conscionable immoderate radical you won’t enactment for.”

He besides blames himself successful Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, which sees him forced to forage and hunt for nutrient and h2o and unrecorded successful a flimsy structure connected the beach.

Discussing his fling, helium admits: “It was an unwise and unprofessional happening to do, I volition beryllium everlastingly sorry. You know, I screwed up. I made a mistake, and I wounded the radical astir me.”

Phillip, who is inactive seen wearing his wedding ring, reveals that helium did not resign past twelvemonth from This Morning, but was axed.

Asked if helium thought helium mightiness extremity up quitting the deserted island, conscionable disconnected the seashore of Madagascar, helium says: “It is inconceivable that I would quit.

“I don’t quit. I’m fired. But I ne'er quit.”

Phillip besides explains wherefore helium wants to bash the caller show, which was revealed exclusively successful The Sun this week.

He says: “This is the archetypal clip I’ve sat successful beforehand of a camera since the worst time of my life. I’ve spent truthful overmuch clip reflecting but if you bash it successful 4 walls, past thing changes.”

Describing his departure from TV arsenic “the biggest grenade going disconnected successful your life,” helium adds: “It each came to a sudden, precise abrupt end.

“One infinitesimal you’re determination and past you’re gone. You cognize what it feels similar to beryllium cancelled.”

Phillip says that helium was besides subjected to horrendous maltreatment connected societal media successful the aftermath of his exit and had to crook disconnected the comments.

But helium hopes being marooned for 10 days tin assistance “set him free” arsenic helium vows that helium “will not beryllium defeated”.

He says: “You get battered. It hurts. It really, truly hurts. This is specified a chunk of my beingness that I’ve conscionable been sad.

“But now, I privation to spot if the eventual isolation tin yet acceptable maine free…as I’m marooned connected a godforsaken land for 10 full days.

“Can I crook a corner? This is different world. It’s bully to observe caller things astir yourself and unearth a caller way for myself.

“I volition find a way. I volition not beryllium defeated. I conscionable consciousness my toxicity tanks emptying out.

“I anticipation that I person a affirmative acquisition for maine and that I americium fixed a just ace of the whip…hopefully. But I americium not doing this arsenic a ‘poor me’ I don’t person the close to a ‘poor me’.”

His household are besides seen talking for the archetypal clip astir the infinitesimal helium came retired arsenic gay successful February 2020 arsenic good arsenic the ungraded surrounding his exit from This Morning past May.

His wife defends her hubby and talks astir the maltreatment helium has received implicit the past 18 months — but admits helium could beryllium successful for much flak with the caller show.

Stephanie says: “What radical don’t realise is that they batter you, but determination are different radical affected.

“There’s nary question, by doing this, you’re popping your caput backmost up supra the parapet for the precise fewer horrid radical that determination are retired there.”

Meanwhile, daughter Molly tells of however “proud” she is of her “amazing” father.

She says: “Weirdly, everything that’s happened precocious has made america closer. We’ve seen him successful his lowest times. But I’ve been truthful arrogant of him. So arrogant of him.

“As a daughter, to spot the emotion that radical person for him. But erstwhile it’s taken away, it’s conscionable heartbreaking. On a godforsaken island. You can’t fake it. This is the existent you.

“So you can’t fell anything. And I truly anticipation that radical spot him however we spot him. Because helium is conscionable amazing.”

However she fears that his deficiency of applicable skills whitethorn beryllium a problem.

She says: “The DIY I’m truly tense about, due to the fact that helium can’t. He can’t bash it. He tin bash a batch of things, but helium can’t bash DIY.”

Molly besides recalls the infinitesimal her dada came retired unrecorded connected This Morning, with Holly by his side.

She says: “When my dada came out, it was precise hard for me. It was precise hard for the full family, chiefly my mum of course.

“Everything was turned upside-down, but we talked done it and implicit clip it’s got easier. My mum and my sister, we’re each the same. We volition ever proceed to enactment him, nary substance what.

"I ne'er thought it would person gone the mode it has. But to person my parents inactive champion friends is just… I’m the luckiest idiosyncratic ever.”

Talking astir coming out, Phillip says: “For me, doing it aboriginal successful life, astatine the moment, it’s conscionable fixed maine much anguish than joy. Because I’m afloat alert of the harm that it leaves. I inactive person the emotion of my family. Never wavered.”

Of his caller show, helium says: “The household deliberation it’s a large idea. And we’ve talked a batch astir it.

“None of them are peculiarly blessed with the limelight. Especially not the limelight I’ve fixed them recently.”

Phillip welled up with tears connected aggregate occasions arsenic helium paid tribute to his family, particularly dada Brian, who died successful 2008 aft having a bosom attack.

With his dependable breaking, helium says: “He was truthful benignant and truthful caring and truthful loving and truthful generous. My dada was my hero.

“A lot’s changed since then. There was a batch I’m gladsome helium didn’t see.”

He besides reveals however helium had the treble agony of losing his occupation connected This Morning rapidly followed by his parent Pam falling ill.

But it besides came with an unexpected infinitesimal of kindness from a stranger.

He recalls: “My mum got sick and I had to get successful the car. The archetypal clip I’d been retired done the gates, I recovered the courageousness to get successful the car and thrust down to Cornwall to look aft my mum who was critically ill.

“I walked into the reception of the hospital, and determination was this large guy, with his large reddish look and large arms and tattoos and I walked into the reception trying to find wherever the intensive attraction portion was and this feline said, ‘Schofield?’ And I said, ‘Yeah?’ And I thought, ‘Oh s***!’

“He said, ‘Can I springiness you a hug mate?’ I said: ‘Actually, bash you know, you can?’ And helium gave maine a massive, monolithic hug.

"He said: ‘They’re each s***s mate, they’re each s***s.’”