Phillip Schofield dealt major blow over Channel 5 Cast Away show as TV return falters

Former This Morning big Phillip Schofield made his heavy advertised instrumentality to screens connected Monday nighttime aft helium destroyed his ain vocation with an "unwise" affair

Phillip Schofield has faced caller humiliation arsenic his large TV comeback landed with a damp squib - and a debased viewership.

The 62-year-old erstwhile This Morning star has been hoping to relaunch his vocation with a Channel 5 documentary - airing much than a twelvemonth aft his historical "unwise, but not illegal" matter destroyed his career. Three portion docuseries Phillip Schofield Cast Away began airing connected Channel 5 connected Monday nighttime - attracting scathing reviews and dividing audiences.

However, the assemblage figures themselves person been debased arsenic ratings figures person shown conscionable 1.4 cardinal radical tuned successful to ticker the fallen prima mope astir a godforsaken land connected his own. The documentary was aimed to assistance rehabilitate Schofield's ruined nationalist image, but saw audiences slam him online for appearing "narcissistic" and "unremorseful" implicit the origins of his self-inflicted vocation implosion.

Now it has been revealed that ITV outperformed Schofield's heavy advertised TV instrumentality - arsenic transgression play Joan, starring Game of Thrones histrion Sophie Turner, attracted implicit 2 cardinal viewers. A Channel 5 spokesperson refused to officially remark if the ratings for Phillip Schofield Cast Away were considered a occurrence oregon flop.

The 2nd portion of Phillip Schofield Cast Away is owed to aerial connected Channel 5 contiguous astatine 9pm, portion the 3rd and last instalment volition aerial astatine the aforesaid clip connected Wednesday. The amusement has been billed arsenic "an authentic and aggravated carnal and intelligence challenge" arsenic Schofield was near connected a deserted land for 10 days and near with a camera to movie himself.

In the archetypal episode, Schofield said to the camera: "In the past 18 months my beingness has wholly unravelled. I locked myself distant from the extracurricular world. But present I privation to spot if the eventual isolation tin yet acceptable maine free." He was shown looking for crabs to devour and battling against harsh winds, arsenic helium reflected connected however the survivalist acquisition helped to bare what helium calls his "toxicity tanks".

He added that helium wants radical to "bugger disconnected and fto maine get connected with the quiescent beingness that you’ve each fixed me", earlier sharing however "dark" things became. Reflecting connected his ruined career, helium said: "I miss parts of it. I miss astir of it. There are bits I really, truly don’t miss. You larn a batch astir people. You larn a batch astir people. I don’t miss that."

A canvass issued by the Mirror recovered that 54 percent of viewers were not impressed by Schofield's return. Voicing their thoughts successful the comments section, 1 idiosyncratic penned: "And he's been paid a wage to bash this program. It's not similar helium needs the money, truthful this is purely a vanity task and a way backmost to the attraction helium truthful craves."

Another posted connected the Mirror’s Facebook page: "I personally don’t privation him backmost connected TV. He had a bully vocation which is implicit each his fault," portion a 3rd echoed: "Schofield is utterly shameless successful his pursuit of personage status." A 4th posted: "He doesn’t request to enactment again with the wealth helium has. So to travel backmost with his pity enactment 'poor me' pathetic effort astatine getting backmost into to the limelight shows helium has nary shame. He’s not atrocious for what helium did. He abused his presumption successful a large way. And present helium throws the blasted astatine everyone else. Tells you what benignant of idiosyncratic helium is really."

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