Former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield had viewers in disbelief last night when he hinted about throwing former colleagues 'under the bus'.
Phillip presented beloved ITV daytime show This Morning for more than 20 years, but quit in 2023 after admitting to bombshell allegations of an affair with a younger colleague.
The 62-year-old presenter had at first denied any truth to the allegations, eventually admitting to an 'unwise, but not illegal' affair, which he claims began when his colleague was 20 years old, though they met when the unnamed male colleague was 15.
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The allegations came to light after Phillip publicly came out as gay in 2020.
He remains married to his wife, Stephanie Lowe, with whom he tied the knot in 2003.
After his perceived fall from grace and absence from television, people were left wondering if they'd ever see Phillip on screens again.
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16 months later, he has made his return on Channel 5's Cast Away, which sees Phillip marooned on a desert island off the coast of Madagascar for 10 days.
The lack of material luxuries and exhaustion seems to be getting to Phillip, as he reflects on his experiences and departure from TV.
In shocking scenes that aired last night (1 October), he mused: "People just went, who I thought were my friends and they just went and that's like 'what the hell'."
Phillip continued: "I have been chucked under a bus, and I could drive the same bus over so many people but I'm not that sort of person, I never have been.
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"But if I sit down with a camera and the light's going who knows what I'll say."
Reflecting on treatment from others after news of the scandal broke, he added: "I miss parts of being on TV, certainly.
"I miss most of it, if I’m honest, I miss most of it.
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“But there are bits that I really, really, really don’t miss.
“You learn a lot about people, I don’t miss that.”
In an earlier episode, Phillip referred to three former colleagues as 's**ts', again accusing them of throwing him 'under the bus'.
He said: "When what happened to me happened to me, 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.
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"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. Brand, ambition is not good enough. It's not a good enough reason to throw someone under a bus."
The former presenter concluded: "I was just thinking there as I was collecting wood. 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-oriented."
Topics: Channel 5, Reality TV, Phillip Schofield
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