Phillip Schofield to make TV return in survival show 16 months after This Morning scandal

The erstwhile TV prima is said to person filmed a Channel 5special called Cast Away, which follows a “celebrity marooned connected an inhabited tropical land disconnected the seashore of Madagascar for 10 days”.

It comes aft Schofield, 62, teased an upcoming announcement connected his Instagram story, writing: “Watch this space…9am.”

It is thought the amusement him struggling to past connected an Indian Ocean land for 10 days. Schofield, 62, is said to person been fixed a handheld camera and dependable signaling instrumentality for his one-man documentary, owed to aerial connected Channel 5 connected Monday night.

Over the weekend, Channel 5 posted a abbreviated clip of a enigma star, said to beryllium Schofield, walking crossed a distant beach, arsenic it teased its “brand new” godforsaken land programme connected societal media.

“A personage marooned connected an uninhabited tropical land disconnected the seashore of Madagascar for 10 days is challenged with full isolation, the forces of nature, and the conflict wrong their ain mind,” the video was captioned.

The amusement volition beryllium Schofield’s archetypal TV enactment since leaving This Morning nether a unreality successful 2023 aft admitting helium had an matter with a younger antheral ITV worker and lied to screen it up.

The ex-This Morning big said the narration with his inferior colleague, a 20-year-old runner connected the show, was “unwise but not illegal”.

He apologised for lying to colleagues, employers, the media and public.

Schofield subsequently resigned from some This Morning and ITV and said that helium was “so precise sorry” Stephanie Lowe, his woman of astir 30 years. It besides led to a fallout with Holly Willoughby, his erstwhile co-host of much than 10 years.

The TV peculiar is expected to amusement Schofield reflecting connected the past 2 years, according to the Sun.

“With 10 days to himself, nary camera crews oregon accumulation around, helium changeable immoderate unbelievably earthy footage, immoderate of it makes for tough, affectional viewing.

“But helium wanted a accidental to stock his story, unedited and honest, and fto viewers spot different broadside to him. He’s successful nary unreserved to travel backmost to TV full-time; helium remains precise bruised and is taking immoderate clip present to measurement things up,” the root said.

At the time, the erstwhile TV prima said helium had “lost everything” aft admitting to the affair, and that the fallout had had a “catastrophic effect” connected his mind.

In December, an outer reappraisal by Jane Mulcahy KC, instructed by ITV brag Dame Carolyn McCall, recovered that ITV made “considerable efforts” to find retired the information astir an alleged narration betwixt Schofield and a runner connected This Morning successful 2019 but was “unable to uncover the applicable evidence” until the presenter’s ain admittance successful precocious May 2023.

This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby near This Morning astir 5 months later, aft 14 years connected the sofa alongside Schofield.

Willoughby has continued to beforehand ITV’s Dancing On Ice, with Stephen Mulhern replacing Schofield arsenic co-host.