Phillip Schofield to make dramatic TV comeback on Channel 5 show Cast Away after former This Morning host admitted to ‘unwise’ affair with ITV colleague – live updates

‘What people don’t realise is that they batter you – but then there are other people affected’, Phillip Schofield’s ever-loyal wife Stephanie told him before he became a castaway on a desert island this summer.

Mrs Schofield, 59, has been unerringly supportive of her husband in an extraordinary and challenging decade that began with him coming out as gay and then losing his job on This Morning over an affair with a young producer last year.

Gone is his £2 million-a-year ‘golden handcuffs’ contract with ITV as have the lucrative deals with businesses such as Princess Cruises, We Buy Any Car and Waitrose.

Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as Phillip Schofield makes his first return to television since he stepped down from This Morning in May last year.

The disgraced broadcaster is appearing on Channel 5’s Cast Away in which he spends 10 days stranded on an uninhabited island off Madagascar without food, water or a production crew.

The previously beloved TV presenter shocked fans last week when he revealed he would soon be making a return to screens 16 months after an ‘unwise but not illegal’ affair scandal with a younger male colleague ended his career.

Stick with our coverage as we guide you trough the hour-long first episode in a three-part series.

Cast Away will be shown on Channel 5 at 9pm.