delivered a very candid viewing experience during the second instalment of Cast Away, confronting his “inner demons” while totally isolated on a remote desert island for 10 days.
Avidly watching fans took to Twitter (X) to quiz whether he was taking aim at former co-host after he shared stories of his “sacking” and made claims he’d been “thrown under the bus”. “There are a lot of amazing people in morning television,” he mused while collecting wood to help him stoke a fire.
Then he made the audacious claim that there were “only three s***s”. Looking visibly angry, he declared: “One of them is a coward who never stepped up in Queuegate. One of them is a coward because they never stepped up when I was being battered by that one journalist… and the other one is just brand-orientated – not what you expect, not what you think you’re gonna get.”
” 100 percent talking about Holly from This Morning about ‘the brand’,” claimed one viewer on X. “So which one was Holly? #PhillipSchofield #Castaway,” another quizzed.
A third quipped of the Wylde Moon founder: “I have one question to Holly watching this, ‘Firstly, are you ok?’ #PhillipSchofield.” A fourth deduced: “He sounds pretty bitter. #PhillipSchofield.”
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Phillip Schofield confided in the camera on Tuesday’s episode of Cast Away (Image: CHANNEL 5)
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby together on This Morning before Phillip was axed (Image: ITV)
However, not everyone criticised the ex-This Morning host, who was axed from his weekday morning slot following his “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague.
One praised: “I admire #PhillipSchofield for telling it how he sees it. He was thrown under a bus when a lot of the media brigade who vilified him have done equally dubious things #CastAway #PhillipSchofieldCastAway.”
Earlier that evening, he declared: “When you throw someone under a bus, you’ve got to have a really bl***y good reason to do it. Brand ambition is not a good enough reason to throw someone under a bus.”
He also defended himself over his affair, declaring: “I know what I did was unwise… [but] others might have done exactly the same thing.”
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Phillip Schofield at his camp fire on the island (Image: CHANNEL 5)
He suggested that it was “not an unusual thing in the gay world” for couples to have age gaps and argued that if it had been a heterosexual couple, the man might have received a “pat on the back” and a cry of “well done, mate”.
In a monologue he recorded while alone on the island, he also made viewers gasp by declaring that the once “magical” world of TV had led to him being “hurt so badly” that he knew he would “never sit on a sofa [for morning TV] again”.
“I don’t think I want to do [TV] again,” he revealed, after blasting the “utter betrayal” he felt he’d experienced.
While catching a fish and trying desperately to survive in the wild, Phillip added that he’d once vowed to himself he’d “die on live television” – but now the illusion had been shattered and he was no longer so sure.