Phillip Schofield TV comeback trailer: Should an affair absolutely destroy me?

Phillip Schofield acknowledged that not disclosing an matter with a younger workfellow was “unwise”, but questioned whether it should “absolutely destruct someone” successful a trailer showing his instrumentality to TV with a Channel 5 series.

The three-part show, Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, volition spot the erstwhile presenter marooned unsocial connected a tropical land disconnected the seashore of Madagascar with a fistful of cameras pursuing his astir two-year lack from the limelight.

In the teaser, helium says to camera: “I’ve been formed distant connected a godforsaken island, wholly connected my own, each I person is camera gear, and I tin accidental immoderate I privation astir immoderate I want.

“It’s my accidental to archer my broadside of my story. I cognize what I did was unwise, but is it capable to perfectly destruct someone?”

The clip was interspersed with scenes of Schofield trying to find nutrient and past connected the island.

Announcing the caller bid connected Wednesday, much than a twelvemonth connected from his resignation from ITV past May, helium called the amusement his “story of survival, some connected a godforsaken land and disconnected it” connected Instagram.

The bid volition aerial crossed 3 nights, from Monday until adjacent Wednesday, and volition spot the erstwhile presenter getting to grips with isolation crossed 10 days and 9 nights.

Channel 5 said the acquisition of Schofield being near unsocial allows him to “confront the challenges of full isolation, the forces of quality and provides the clip to conflict wrong his ain caput arsenic helium explores his ain arguable story”.

Schofield said: “This is astir decidedly a archetypal for maine and the lone happening I felt compelled to do. It appealed to maine connected truthful galore levels.

“I’ve precocious had a batch of clip to deliberation astir my life, what went close and what went wrong, but I’ve ever had the harmless arms of friends and household wrapped astir me. This clip it’s conscionable me, nary phone, nary comforts, nary unit and lone articulator balm arsenic a luxury.

“I’m looking guardant to exploring the island, trying to necktie knots to unafraid my structure and foraging and fending for myself successful the chaotic … with nary help. Maybe I’ll beryllium Robinson Crusoe, oregon possibly I’ll conscionable beryllium Tom Hanks’ Wilson and softly drift disconnected into the chaotic bluish yonder.”

In the 2000 film, Cast Away Tom Hanks’ quality Charles “Chuck” Noland crashes successful the Pacific Ocean, and has to fend for himself for years with lone a volleyball for company. Robinson Crusoe tells the communicative of a shipwrecked sailor trapped for decades, and gathering mutineers and natives connected an island.

Channel 5 commissioning exertion Guy Davies said: “This isn’t conscionable a endurance challenge, it’s accidental for Phillip to look backmost implicit the past explosive 18 months of his life, and research what happened.

“The assemblage volition larn however helium feels present astir tv and the future, arsenic good arsenic the past. And it volition beryllium Phillip Schofield arsenic we person ne'er seen him earlier – unguarded, affectional and brutally honest.”

Before the announcement, the transmission posted a abbreviated clip of a enigma prima walking crossed a distant beach, arsenic it teased its “brand new” godforsaken land programme connected societal media.

During the archetypal play of Cast Away, comedian Ruby Wax was near connected an land successful the the Indian Ocean for 10 days, and had to papers her ain communicative with assemblage and hand-held cameras.

Executive shaper and managing manager astatine accumulation institution Burning Bright Productions, Clive Tulloh, said: “We are precise excited astir this almighty and affectional series. It is much-watch TV. It gives a full caller meaning to survival.”

Channel 5 listings accidental the archetypal occurrence sees Schofield “excited and optimistic” astir the situation ahead, erstwhile helium lands connected the beach, until a “gale force” rips done his campy successful the mediate of the night.

He volition besides person a grooming time with a endurance adept anterior to arriving via boat, arsenic helium is “left to navigate his caller land location alone, attempting to scavenge for mangoes, find a h2o root and drawback fish”.

Schofield volition besides “reflect connected immoderate of the tougher times successful his life” amid days “without immoderate meaningful food”.

Hungry, helium volition effort to drawback crab for meal during dusk, earlier getting mislaid “in the dense jungle with lone a headlamp and nary thought of however to get backmost to camp”, the occurrence statement besides says.

Schofield said past twelvemonth helium had “lost everything” aft admitting to the affair, and that the fallout had had a “catastrophic effect” connected his mind.

An outer review, revealed successful December, recovered that ITV made “considerable efforts” to find retired the information astir an alleged narration betwixt him 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.

Carried retired by Jane Mulcahy KC, and commissioned by ITV brag Dame Carolyn McCall, Schofield “reluctantly declined” to instrumentality portion due to the fact that of “the hazard to his health”.

Holly Willoughby, who was a co-host of This Morning with Schofield for much than a decennary near the daytime programme successful October 2023, and continued astatine ITV by presenting Dancing On Ice with Stephen Mulhern, alternatively of her erstwhile on-screen partner.

– Phillip Schofield: Cast Away begins airing astatine 9pm connected Monday connected Channel 5.