Nadia Sawalha thought Phillip Schofield's 'cringe' comeback was a 'joke' as she hits out

Loose Women panelist Nadia Sawalha shared her thoughts connected the quality that her erstwhile ITV workfellow Phillip Schofield volition marque his TV comeback connected Channel 5's Cast Away

Presenter Nadia Sawalha has addressed the quality that Phillip Schofield volition marque his TV comeback adjacent week.

It's been announced that Phillip, 62, will marque his instrumentality to TV connected Channel 5's Cast Away. Viewers are expected to spot him sermon the past 2 years whilst stranded successful Madagascar. Phil stepped down from hosting This Morning successful May past year, earlier resigning from ITV altogether.

Phil's resignation coincided with him admitting to having had an "unwise but not illegal" narration with a younger workfellow whilst connected This Morning. At the time, helium apologised for having antecedently lied astir the concern and successful his resignation connection stated that the "consensual on-off relationship" was "now over".

The quality has prompted absorption this week, including from Phillip's erstwhile ITV workfellow Nadia, who's a panelist connected Loose Women. She shared her thoughts connected the Coffee Moaning podcast, which she hosts with her hubby Mark Adderley.

Nadia said: "[The trailer] was popping onto phones each implicit the spot yesterday and everyone was agast. When I was archetypal sent it, determination was nary connection with it, truthful I thought it was a joke." She added: "I conscionable couldn't judge it." She further commented: "First of all, I cringed. If I'm honest, I perfectly cringed erstwhile I saw that video. I thought 'that is truthful embarrassing'. That was my archetypal feeling."

When 1 spectator shared that they are funny to perceive Phillip's "side of the story," Nadia responded: "That's absorbing due to the fact that I consciousness he's told his broadside of the story. I consciousness similar we've lone heard his broadside of the communicative due to the fact that helium did that large large dispersed successful the Sun [and different interview]."

Addressing different remark from idiosyncratic who suggested that the unshaven quality of Phillip connected the amusement is to represent that he's struggling and evoke sympathy, Nadia said: "He's besides precise clever truthful I deliberation helium understands an assemblage and I deliberation helium knows however to talk to an audience. So I think, yes, he'll beryllium very, precise careful."

Further sharing her thoughts, Nadia said aboriginal successful the podcast: "He lied to everybody astatine work. He near radical to woody with his s**t, I feel, successful my opinion." She went connected to question whether helium had considered his household and the idiosyncratic helium had a narration with erstwhile signing up for the show, saying: "This has each got to beryllium dredged up again." She added: "Have you taken into information those people's feelings? I mean, I person ever felt truly atrocious for his wife. I truly person [...] None of america volition cognize what the discussions were, and for his kids [and] it's like, present again? You're gonna archer it each again?"

Nadia admitted that erstwhile radical successful the manufacture person antecedently predicted that helium would instrumentality to TV she had been "naive," having thought that wouldn't beryllium the case. She said: "There's truthful galore radical he's upset. There's truthful overmuch shame progressive successful this and earlier anybody dares accidental this is from a homophobic constituent of presumption - it is not, astatine all! I would beryllium similar this close crossed the board."

The presenter added that she "doesn't cognize what happened" with Phillip but said determination has to beryllium "really wide lines" successful narration to radical successful positions of power. Sharing her thoughts connected powerfulness dynamics successful showbusiness, she said: "I person ever stood up and against radical successful positions of powerfulness and wealth and status. I volition ever instrumentality up for the young idiosyncratic that was swayed by that."

"[Phillip] is agelong successful the bony capable to cognize that this is going to disturbance everything up for each the radical he's lied to and each the radical he's hurt," she said astatine a antithetic constituent successful the episode. Nadia went connected to say: "I don't consciousness atrocious for [Phillip]. I consciousness atrocious for each the radical that are successful the fallout astir him."

Breaking his soundlessness connected the show, Phil took to Instagram explaining his reasons for doing the amusement - which helium films himself - posting: "Now you cognize however I spent my Summer! Alone for 10 days, nary food, nary water, nary crew. My communicative of survival, some connected a godforsaken land and disconnected it."

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