Phillip Schofield’s Channel 5 finale of Cast Away left audiences gobsmacked and reaching for the remote as he dashed into the ocean stark naked. The former This Morning host, 62, marked his television comeback with a nearly 10-days stint on an isolated isle off the coast of Madagascar.
Phillip laid bare personal reflections about his television career crumbling and made pointed remarks about those who abandoned him at the height of the scandal.
The star also revealed that despite his profound passion for TV, a daytime television comeback or partnerships with certain industry figures are firmly off the table for him. In a jaw-dropping final night spectacle on the Madagascan shore, Phillip set tongues wagging with a risque skinny dipping escapade.
Having positioned his camera towards the sea, he stripped off all garments and bolted for a nocturnal dip in the surf, prompting distaste among numerous Channel 5 viewers.
Venting on X, viewers expressed their disbelief at the scene; one user queried: “Did any of us need to see him naked?” “I’m absolutely horrified,” remarked another, whilst a third exclaimed: “#PhillipSchofield for f**k sake! ! We saw his a**e!”, reports .
Phillip Schofield filmed himself skinny dipping (Image: Channel 4)
“#PhillipSchofield skinny dipping is not something I wanted to see midweek,” declared another viewer, and one more commented: “#PhillipSchofield #castaway ok nobody needed to see his naked a**e.”
Some viewers hailed the former Dancing On Ice host for his actions, with a fan remarking: “So #PhillipSchofield just burned a list of all the toxic people in his life, in his last #castaway fire, and then ran naked into the #Madagascan sea. But I hope @Schofe really did find himself on his island.”
In another segment of the show, Schofield opened up about his ordeal with the paparazzi and pondered over the moment he sensed his career slipping away following the conviction of his brother, Timothy, 54, for 11 counts of child sexual offences between October 2016 and October 2019.
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Phillip Scofield dealt major blow over C5 show (Image: Channel 5)
He declared: “There is a member of my family who I refuse to name and acknowledge who committed a heinous crime and I had no qualms whatsoever in shopping him.”
“We were praised by the police and we got justice done. Even when they knew all of the facts the papers made me to be some complicit agent. My poor mum, I had to tell her about that member of the family and I had to go through everything with the hierarchy at ITV so they knew that I hadn’t done anything wrong.”
Cast Away is available to watch on My5