Phillip Schofield left Channel 5 viewers begging “Please stop” and switching off from the finale episode of Cast Away after he stripped naked and ran into the sea after burning a list of names.
Over the last three episodes, Schofield was left stranded on an island for 10 days where he opened up about his TV career crumbling around him – touching on the people who “left” at the height of the scandal and his near suicide attempt.
Tonight, Schofield opened up about how he was followed by paparazzi and discussed how he felt his career began to end when his brother – 54-year-old Timothy – who was convicted in April 2023 of 11 sexual offences involving a child between October 2016 and October 2019, including two of sexual activity with a child.
The star also admitted that whilst he loves working in TV, he will “never” work for a daytime TV programme again, and will never work with certain people within the industry again.
During his final night on the Madagascan island, Schofield wrote down a list of names that he felt needed to be burned from him life, and tossed the list into the fire he had burning throughout his 10 days.
Setting up the camera facing the sea, Schofield then bared all, stripping naked and running into the ocean during the dead of night – however, this left a sour taste in many Channel 5 viewers’ mouths.
Why’s phillip schofield just ran across my tv naked may i ask? #phillipschofield pic.twitter.com/nFAqYlSRW5
— derek branning’s shiny pursed lips (@realseanslater) October 2, 2024
Taking to X to comment on the moment, one user asked: “Did any of us need to see him naked??”
“Why’s Phillip Schofield just ran across my TV naked may I ask?” another quipped before a third said: “#PhillipSchofield for f**k sake!! We saw his a**e!!”
“#PhillipSchofield skinny dipping is not something I wanted to see midweek,” someone else penned before a fifth added: “#PhillipSchofield #castaway ok nobody needed to see his naked a**e.”
A sixth watcher exclaimed: “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.”
Discussing the moment he felt his career began to falter, Schofield explained: “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.”
Going on to the moment he was fired from This Morning the day before his brothers sentencing, he revealed: “My agent called, ‘I am afraid you have been let go from This Morning’.
“That’s it, it’s done, your not going back on Monday’. Why would I be sacked for something somebody else did. I was fired because of him. It was better for the channel and I agreed to say I resigned because it was better for everyone.
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“I was always open and honest. I was fired for the bad publicity of someone else’s crime and a week later I blew my own wheels off with everything else. I’ve done a full mia culpa. I came clean about my affair.
Before he was taken back to the mainland, Schofield was asked what was next for him, leaving him to reveal: “There is a lot of freedom in not giving a s**t. There is a lot of freedom, say what you want, do what you want. Honestly I don’t give a s**t.
“What’s next for me? Nothing. I am happy with nothing. I have family, friends and a dog. I’m not saying I am done but never in a million years would I go back to daytime TV. This is me saying ‘Thank you, I have absolutely loved it’.”
