Phillip Schofield accidentally sets his camp on FIRE after using emergency radio to Channel 5 crew

By Rod McPhee

OVER 3 nights - and 3 hour-long episodes - Phillip Schofield has been bearing his psyche successful caller Channel 5 amusement Cast Away.

And it's fundamentally a accidental for the erstwhile This Morning big to explicate the circumstances that saw him permission the amusement past year.

To enactment it mildly, helium near nether thing of a cloud, admitting he'd had a fling with a overmuch younger runner connected the programme. But successful the C5 amusement helium presents his ain versions of events - 1 which is astatine likelihood with the communicative that emerged astatine the time.

He was portrayed arsenic a antheral who'd had an "unwise" affair, who'd resigned arsenic a effect and had fto galore of his colleagues down.

But successful Cast Away Philip insists helium was fired by ITV and not for the affair, but due to the fact that of the atrocious publicity that surrounded the crimes of his paedophile brother. He summed it up champion erstwhile helium claimed he'd been "pushed nether a bus."

After watching Cast Away what you're near with is thing alternatively confusing, however.

Did Philip deliberation he'd done thing incorrect by having the fling with the runner, oregon not? For example, helium said helium wouldn't person been slammed for it rather truthful overmuch if it were a heterosexual fling.

He said he: "would person received a pat connected the backmost for having an matter with a woman." This infers that the lone happening incorrect with it was that it was a aforesaid enactment fling. So wherefore does helium besides say: "I volition beryllium everlastingly sorry. I screwed up. I made a mistake."

The answer, I suspect, is that the full matter was a murky business. There were truthful galore blurred lines astir appropriateness, professionalism and honesty.

The lone steadfast decision you tin gully from the amusement is that Phillip himself isn't ENTIRELY definite to what grade He was blameworthy of wrongdoing.

Amid the confusion, what volition the viewing nationalist think? I fishy that this volition permission those who disliked Phillip to consciousness adjacent much suspicious of him.

Those who backed him, volition consciousness reassured too. But those who inactive aren't definite what to deliberation volition beryllium none-the-wiser - and I'm not definite if that's what Phillip would person wanted.