Phillip Schofield's daughters and wife break silence 16 months after This Morning and ITV scandal

Phillip Schofield's wife and daughters have spoken for the first time since he came out on This Morning and was forced to resign from ITV after lying about a relationship with a colleague.

The 62-year-old former presenter will be seen on screen in Channel 5's Phillip Schofield: Cast Away next week, his first appearance on a TV series since he left ITV in May 2023 after he admitted to an "unwise but not illegal" affair with a younger male colleague.

The three-part series, which begins on Monday (September 30), sees Phillip marooned on a tropical island off the coast of Madagascar with a handful of cameras, with the first episode showing his shelter nearly being blown off on the first night, as well him being lost at night and looking for crabs to eat.

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Phillip, who had presented This Morning alongside Holly Willoughby since 2009 until his exit, appears to hint in the first episode that he considered suicide, as he talks about how when his daughters, Ruby and Molly, were looking after him.

Speaking alone to camera, on the island, he says when he was in the media storm, he "got so, so close, I had everything in place, everything was set up and everything was ready". He added: "Molly said, ‘Do you imagine what this would do to us if you actually managed to pull this off? Imagine what would happen. Can you imagine what it would do to me if you did this on my watch’, and that was just enough to take a step back from the edge.

"I could have been hospitalised. I had the option to be hospitalised, but then I thought, that’s going to get out. So I just raced to the family home and shut the gates."

Wife