Phillip Schofield faces a terrifying tempest that threatens to destruct his campy portion helium is stranded unsocial connected an land successful his caller TV show.
Cast Away, which starts connected Channel 5 connected Monday, sees the This Morning fable on an isle disconnected Madagascar, wherever helium has to fend for himself and films his ain aggravated journey.
And successful a sneak peek clip of the archetypal episode, things are soon thrown into chaos erstwhile the upwind takes a nasty crook successful the mediate of the night.
On his archetypal nighttime successful camp, Phillip settles successful for the nighttime aft a engaged time mounting up his campy and gathering a fire.
He is hopeless for a remainder pursuing a hunt for food, and tells the camera however bare helium is portion closing his eyes arsenic helium holds the camera.
Phillip says: "I privation to drawback a food that makes maine consciousness full. I americium virtually going to slumber arsenic I’m holding this. Anyway, determination we spell and um I’ll spot you tomorrow."
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But suddenly, astatine 12.34am, a tempest ravages the campy and, with nary 1 to crook to for help, Phillip indispensable clasp connected and anticipation for the best.
"Bloody hell. Disaster has struck, howling upwind blowing done everything, it's taken retired each the front," Phillip tells viewers portion filming the play connected his nighttime imaginativeness camera.
"This is astir to teardrop itself to pieces and there’s inactive each anticipation that it will. I wasn’t expecting that."
The three-part bid follows Phillip implicit the people of 10 days and 9 nights connected the distant island.
The amusement will spot him flooded the carnal and affectional challenges being stranded brings, arsenic good arsenic allowing him clip to bespeak connected what helium has been done implicit the past 2 years.
The Sun exclusively broke the quality of his TV comeback past night.
Phillip Schofield breaks down successful tears and admits This Morning ungraded 'destroyed' him successful archetypal look astatine TV comeback
Phillip was sacked from This Morning successful May 2023 pursuing a little matter with a younger colleague.
He aboriginal mislaid his presenting gig connected Dancing connected Ice and has not appeared connected TV since.
A melodramatic trailer for Cast Away has already been released aft the amusement was officially announced this morning.
It sees him successful tears arsenic helium grapples with everything that has happened.
In the melodramatic trailer, Phillip 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?"
Cast Away will aerial connected Monday 30th September to Wednesday 1st October at 9pm on Channel 5 and My5.
Phil's TV return
SOME thought it would ne'er happen. He thought it would ne'er happen.
But, aft a 16-month exile, Phil Schofield is backmost wherever helium belongs — connected TV.
A batch has happened successful that time, nary of it involving Phil. He’s gone from household sanction to household recluse.
I was the archetypal idiosyncratic to interrogation him aft his axing from This Morning, and helium was a ammunition of a man. Pale, gaunt and shaking, helium spoke, haltingly, successful a whisper.
Nailing vape aft vape, helium thought his erstwhile glittering vocation was over. Many came retired successful enactment but helium couldn’t look opening himself up for much scrutiny.
He’s said “no” to each accidental that’s since travel his way.
But the accidental to reset connected a distant land has proven excessively large a draw. This is simply a accidental to person his accidental — raw, unfiltered and honest. Who knows what volition emerge? (Only Phil, a fewer Madagascan crabs, and a Channel 5 edit suite volition know).
It’s a risk, thing with TV cameras mostly is, but worthy taking.