It’s Phillip Schofield as we’ve never seen him before. Barely recognisable, looking unkempt, his famous silver fox hair overgrown and sporting a straggly beard, as he speaks to the camera completely alone in a dramatic trailer for three-part Channel 5 reality show, Cast Away, the first episode of which hit our screens on Monday.
In the teaser we see nothing but sand and sea behind the former This Morning star, who explained, with a serious expression, “I’ve been castaway on a desert island, completely on my own.
All I have is camera gear, and I can say whatever I want, about whatever I want..” The new show, which the star admitted he was filming ‘secretly’ before Channel 5’s big trailer reveal, joking on his social media, ‘Now you know how I spent my summer’, sees the rugged-looking 62 year old stranded on a tropical island off Madagascar for 10 days.
It’s believed he will reflect during the three episodes on the events of the past two years in detail - events which at the time he admitted in a raw TV interview had left him contemplating suicide, as he confessed, ‘I’ve lost everything’.
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