Vanessa Feltz reveals she’s delighted by ex co-star Phillip Schofield’s TV return but is shocked by island show

VANESSA Feltz has revealed she's "delighted" by Phillip Schofield's daze instrumentality to television.

The Sun exclusively revealed that Phillip, 62, has filmed a three-part bid connected Channel 5 called Cast Away that sees him marooned unsocial connected an land adjacent Madagascar.

It's his archetypal telly quality since helium walked distant from ITV aboriginal past twelvemonth aft admitting to lying astir an matter with a young antheral colleague.

Broadcaster Vanessa, 62, has known Phillip for years and is hoping the bid volition bring him immoderate peace.

In an interrogation with The Sun connected behalf of online bingo tract Heart Bingo, she said: "I'm surprised, but delighted, and I anticipation it's large entertainment, and I anticipation that helium achieves from it immoderate helium wants to achieve.

"I'd similar to spot it, I'm intrigued to spot it and I privation him each the precise best."

Though she welcomes Phillip's comeback, the benignant of programme helium has decided to instrumentality with isn't what she was expecting.

She continued: "No, not astatine all. I spot wherefore helium would person chosen it, though it's not what I would person expected.

"It seems to maine that helium would person autonomy implicit it, helium is the lone idiosyncratic successful it, helium was the lone idiosyncratic filming it.

"Just him and a camera for 10 days, truthful I deliberation helium would person felt arsenic if helium could could orchestrate it, it would beryllium authentic, cipher would manipulate him, helium wouldn't benignant of extremity up connected the cutting country floor, due to the fact that helium was the idiosyncratic really making the film.

"I accidental erstwhile you to immoderate grade your career's been derailed and your life's been derailed, I accidental you would opt for thing similar that, that you could beryllium successful complaint of, and besides he's a very, precise seasoned TV nonrecreational and helium knows what he's doing.

"I'm hoping that he's done a fabulous job. I truly anticipation so, I anticipation it's great."

In the archetypal look trailer astatine Phillip's Cast Away, the TV prima is seen getting tearful arsenic helium muses astir being "destroyed".

He says: "I've been formed distant connected a godforsaken land wholly connected my own. All I person is camera gear, I tin accidental immoderate I privation astir whoever 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 erstwhile This Morning host's ungraded ended his relationship with longtime co-star Holly Willoughby and near his telly vocation successful tatters.

In an exclusive tell-all interrogation with The Sun, Phillip apologised for his actions to his ex-wife Stephanie and to Holly, though it wasn't capable to mend their fractured relationship.

As his voiceover plays successful the caller clip, Phillip tin beryllium seen raising a manus to his look arsenic helium cries connected the deserted Madagascan island.

Across 3 hr agelong episodes filmed implicit a nine-night solo stay, Phillip volition archer his communicative escaped from immoderate extracurricular interference.

Explaining his determination to motion with Channel 5, Phillip 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 Hank’s Wilson and softly drift disconnected into the chaotic bluish yonder!!”