Can Cast Away rehabilitate Phillip Schofield?

The disgraced presenter has swapped the 'This Morning' sofa for a remote desert island off Madagascar

Phillip Shofield in a still from Castaway.
Schofield's 'self-absorption' makes for 'wearying entertainment'
(Image credit: Channel 5)

Phillip Schofield has returned to the small screen for what will either be the "first seeds of a television comeback" or the "incontrovertible death knell of his career", said Stuart Heritage in The Guardian. "Honestly, at this point it's hard to tell which way it's going to go."

It's been one year and three months since the "This Morning" presenter was sacked by ITV, following the highly publicised scandal of his extramarital affair with a much younger showrunner. Now, he's back on television – this time marooned alone on a remote island off Madagascar for 10 days in a three-part Channel 5 special, "Phillip Schofield: Cast Away".

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Irenie Forshaw is a features writer at The Week, covering arts, culture and travel. She began her career in journalism at Leeds University, where she wrote for the student newspaper, The Gryphon, before working at The Guardian and The New Statesman Group. Irenie then became a senior writer at Elite Traveler, where she oversaw The Experts column.