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

The three-part present, Phillip Schofield: Solid Away, will see the previous presenter marooned alone on a tropical island off the coast of Madagascar with a handful of cameras following his practically two-year absence from the limelight.

Within the teaser, he says to digital camera: “I’ve been solid away on a desert island, fully alone, all I’ve is digital camera gear, and I can say no matter I would like about no matter I would like.

“It’s my likelihood to inform my aspect of my story. I do know what I did was unwise, however is it sufficient to completely destroy somebody?”

The clip was interspersed with scenes of Schofield looking for meals and survive on the island.

Saying the brand new sequence on Wednesday, greater than a 12 months on from his resignation from ITV final Might, he referred to as the present his “story of survival, each on a desert island and off it” on Instagram.

The sequence will air throughout three nights, from Monday till subsequent Wednesday, and can see the previous presenter attending to grips with isolation throughout 10 days and 9 nights.

Channel 5 stated the expertise of Schofield being left alone permits him to “confront the challenges of complete isolation, the forces of nature and gives the time to battle inside his personal thoughts as he explores his personal controversial story”.

Schofield stated: “That is most undoubtedly a primary for me and the one factor I felt compelled to do. It appealed to me on so many ranges.

“I’ve just lately had a number of time to consider my life, what went proper and what went incorrect, however I’ve at all times had the protected arms of family and friends wrapped round me. This time it’s simply me, no telephone, no comforts, no crew and solely lip balm as a luxurious.

“I’m trying ahead to exploring the island, attempting to tie knots to safe my shelter and foraging and fending for myself within the wild … with no assist. Possibly I’ll be Robinson Crusoe, or possibly I’ll simply be Tom Hanks’ Wilson and quietly drift off into the wild blue yonder.”

Within the 2000 movie, Solid Away Tom Hanks’ character Charles “Chuck” Noland crashes within the Pacific Ocean, and has to fend for himself for years with solely a volleyball for firm. Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a shipwrecked sailor trapped for many years, and assembly mutineers and natives on an island.

Channel 5 commissioning editor Man Davies stated: “This isn’t only a survival problem, it’s likelihood for Phillip to look again over the past explosive 18 months of his life, and discover what occurred.

“The viewers will find out how he feels now about tv and the long run, in addition to the previous. And it will likely be Phillip Schofield as we now have by no means seen him earlier than – unguarded, emotional and brutally trustworthy.”

Earlier than the announcement, the channel posted a brief clip of a thriller star strolling throughout a distant seashore, because it teased its “model new” desert island programme on social media.

Through the first season of Solid Away, comic Ruby Wax was left on an island within the the Indian Ocean for 10 days, and needed to doc her personal story with physique and hand-held cameras.

Govt producer and managing director at manufacturing firm Burning Vibrant Productions, Clive Tulloh, stated: “We’re very enthusiastic about this highly effective and emotional sequence. It’s much-watch TV. It provides a complete new that means to survival.”

Channel 5 listings say the primary episode sees Schofield “excited and optimistic” in regards to the problem forward, when he lands on the seashore, till a “gale drive” rips by way of his camp in the course of the evening.

He may also obtain a coaching day with a survival knowledgeable previous to arriving through boat, as he’s “left to navigate his new island residence alone, making an attempt to scavenge for mangoes, discover a water supply and catch fish”.

Schofield may also “replicate on a number of the more durable occasions in his life” amid days “with none significant meals”.

Hungry, he’ll attempt to catch crab for dinner throughout nightfall, earlier than getting misplaced “within the dense jungle with solely a headlamp and no thought of how one can get again to camp”, the episode description additionally says.

Schofield stated final 12 months he had “misplaced the whole lot” after admitting to the affair, and that the fallout had had a “catastrophic impact” on his thoughts.

An exterior overview, revealed in December, discovered that ITV made “appreciable efforts” to seek out out the reality about an alleged relationship between him and a runner on This Morning in 2019 however was “unable to uncover the related proof” till the presenter’s personal admission in late Might 2023.

Carried out by Jane Mulcahy KC, and commissioned by ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall, Schofield “reluctantly declined” to participate due to “the danger to his well being”.

Holly Willoughby, who was a co-host of This Morning with Schofield for greater than a decade left the daytime programme in October 2023, and continued at ITV by presenting Dancing On Ice with Stephen Mulhern, as an alternative of her former on-screen companion.

– Phillip Schofield: Solid Away begins airing at 9pm on Monday on Channel 5.