Phillip Schofield Cast Away: TV star fights back tears and vows 'I won't be defeated'

Cast Away will continue on Tuesday night on Channel 5.

Viewers were raging over one decision made by Channel 5 bosses.

Schofield ended up doing his own narration, as well as talking to the camera throughout.

One user wrote on X: "Doing his own narration is irritating". Another said: "Totally distracted by Schofield's voice being a lot deeper on the voiceover than the high-pitched squeak we all know and love."

Phillip opened up about his darkest hour and said he became "so so close" and had "everything in place".

However, he was told by his daughter that it would ruin them if he took his own life and he admitted that it brought him back from the edge.

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Schofield said that he misses most of his career on the telly.

However, he also said you learn a lot about people working in showbiz, and declared that he "doesn't miss" that.

Phillip's daughter Molly declared she was "so proud" of her dad as she wiped away tears.

She sobbed as she said: "I really hope people see him the way we see him."

Phil said he needed to "pull himself together" after fighting back tears on day one.

He told the camera that he's feeling "really lucky" as he spent some time solo.

Schofe added that he grew up on the beach and was incredibly happy being in the midst of it again.

Joanna Lumley appeared on air to give Phillip some advice for his stint, but viewers weren't too sure.

One user wrote on X: "Joanna Lumley, a national treasure? Surely not?" Another wrote: "Get Joanna Lumley away from Phillip Schofield!"

While a third simply wrote: "Aww, love Joanna Lumley!"

Phil sternly said within minutes of the new show airing that he will "not be defeated" as he made his triumphant TV return.

Schofield made a list of "all the toxic people in his life" before throwing it into a fire in the final episode of Cast Away.

In the new series Cast Away, Phil claims he left ITV due to his brother's crimes.

He said: "I was becoming more of a story than the programme. And I agreed to say that I resigned because it would be neater for everybody. I was fired for the bad publicity for someone else's crime."

He added that he was fired because of "someone I used to call brother".

Phil's brother, Timothy Schofield, was sentenced to 12 years behind bars after being found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy over the course of a three-year period.

The TV star made a stern vow that he will not be returning to ITV.

It came as he was tipped to take part in I'm A Celeb, prompting Phil to say: "Although my best mates host it, there are some channels you just won't work for. There are some people you won't work for."

Mere hours before Phil's show was set to air on TV the former This Morning star wrote "nearly time! hope you all enjoy!" on his Instagram stories as he prepared to make his return.

Eamonn Holmes had an explosive rant on GB News as he discussed Phil's new show.

The star said: "If I am one of the people who threw him under the bus, I am very proud to have done it[...]"

He added: "People seem to be forgetting this and they’re making it out to be one situation, one relationship, if you want to believe it, fine. But I believe he is where he deserves to be."

Phillip confessed that he had to be "talked from the edge" by his beloved daughters, Molly and Ruby, in the wake of the affair that led to his This Morning dismissal.

"In the last 18 months it got as dark as it is possible to get,” he admitted, revealing how he'd attempted to take his own life. “A year ago, I got so, so close. I had everything in place. Everything was set up. Everything was ready."

He admitted he'd "had the option to be hospitalised", but decided against it, in case the details were leaked to the press. Instead, he opted to deal with it privately, revealing: "I just raced to the family home and shut the gates."

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In the series, Phil opens up on how the experience blew away all his happy memories from working at ITV.

He says: "it screwed up my favourite building in the world, and it pretty well blew away all those happy memories, and suddenly the place became hostile to me, and that was heartbreaking.

"And the people who did it to me, know, they know how important that building was to me. They know that when you throw someone under a bus, you've got to have a really bloody good reason to do it."

Schofield added: "There are only three 's***s'. One of them is a coward who never stepped up in queue gate. One of them is a coward because they never stepped up when I was being battered by one journalist....and the other one is just brand orientated."

In the new series, Phillip says: "Shamed, disgraced Phillip Schofield who had an affair. But strangely, I think another TV presenter or two might have done exactly the same thing."

"Difference is, heterosexual. It's not an unusual thing in the gay world for there to be a difference in age groups. That's not that unusual in the straight world, but if that had been the case with me and it had been a woman. Pat on the back. Well done mate."

In the trailer that was released shortly after Phillip confirmed his return to TV, he vowed to tell his side of the story.

The short clip sees him say: "I know what I did was unwise, but is it really enough to absolutely destroy someone?"

He was then seen crying in the clip before the trailer came to a close.