Phillip Schofield gives Ant and Dec shout out as he discusses brutal shunning from TV

Phillip Schofield was spectacularly dropped from his ITV commitments aft decades of moving with the institution pursuing the quality of his 'unwise but not illegal' matter with a overmuch younger colleague

Phillip Schofield has fixed Ant and Dec a outcry retired erstwhile referencing his brutal attraction pursuing the quality of his fling with a younger man.

The star, who past twelvemonth discontinue his relation astatine ITV aft admitting to an "unwise but not illegal" matter with a overmuch younger workfellow - revealed helium starred successful Channel 5 bid Cast Away, bringing an extremity to his quiescent 16-month lack from TV and awards shows. The bid is self-recorded without a camera unit oregon accumulation team, and is filmed afloat connected handheld camera and assemblage camera, with a dependable pack.

The erstwhile This Morning big was forced to permission his spot connected the show, that helium had hosted with existent beingness champion person Holly Willoughby. But arsenic helium reveals successful the three-parter, helium was axed from his occupation by ITV, and didn't resign. In 1 scene, helium appears to pain his bridges with his erstwhile employer, wherever helium worked for decades connected aggregate shows.

Phillip addressed rumours helium volition beryllium heading into the jungle for ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and adjacent gave Ant and Dec a outcry out, calling them his 'best mates'.

Speaking connected the documentary, helium revealed: "I'm seemingly 4/1 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 appears to marque a excavation astatine his erstwhile co-host of 13 years and ex-best mate Holly Willoughby, who severed ties with Phillip during the scandal, earlier concisely returning to This Morning solo.

Speaking successful the three-part show, which starts connected Monday, helium said: "When you propulsion idiosyncratic nether a bus, you’ve got to person a truly bloody bully crushed to bash it."

He besides seemed to mock Holly's code connected This Morning, pursuing his departure, wherever she opened the amusement with a cringeworthy phrase, asking viewers: "Are you OK?" In Phillip's documentary, helium tin beryllium seen having a household barbecue, with his woman Stephanie Lowe and their 2 daughters, Molly, 31, and Ruby, 28. He hands nutrient over, and says: "If you’re OK, past we’re OK, and I’m OK . . . are you OK?"

In a thinly veiled commentary connected the caller saga, and Phillip's consequent 'cancelling', helium is asked if helium thought astir quitting the deserted island, adjacent Madagascar. He said: "It is inconceivable that I would quit. I don’t quit. I’m fired. But I ne'er quit."

They volition beryllium near unsocial to papers their ain acquisition utilizing a assortment of cameras. The synopsis for the amusement read: "The celebrated look has to face the challenges of full isolation, the forces of nature, and the conflict wrong their ain mind."

On Wednesday morning, Phillip announced the quality by sharing images of himself filming for the amusement and told his followers: "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," earlier announcing the merchandise date.

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