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

It’s been over a year since Phillip Schofield left This Morning in a cloud of scandal – after he admitted to having an affair with a much younger male colleague.

But what has the presenter’s life looked like since he stepped away from the screen?

From drafting in PR help from his family to reuniting with celebrity pals, MailOnline takes a look back at Phillip’s year off the air – ahead of his imminent return.

This is the moment Phillip was dropped off on the desert island for Cast Away, leaving the camera crews behind.

The presenter looked agitated as he was seen waving goodbye to the crew for the new three-part series.

Filmed stepping off a boat and onto his new ‘home’ for the next week and a half, he wailed: ‘I’ll be entirely alone for 10 long days and nine solitary nights. God help me’.

Waving to the crew he shouts: ‘Thank you, see you in 10 days’, before musing: ‘That is the wildest feeling, oh my. S**t just got real.’

Phillip has taken to his Instagram stories to gear up for the first episode of Cast Away to go live at 9pm this evening.

The presenter quipped: ‘Nearly time!! See you at 9pm on @Channel5_tv and My5. Hope you enjoy x’

He included a previously unseen snap taken during filming, where the former ITV star is sitting underneath a canopy in front of a camera.

The disgraced presenter announced his return to mainstream TV on September 24.

Phillip wrote: ‘Now you know how I spent my Summer! Alone for 10 days, no food, no water, no crew. My story of survival, both on a desert island and off it.’

He will discuss his bitter parting of ways with ITV and This Morning, which he hosted for 21 years, while fending for himself on the island paradise, located off the coast of Madagascar.

Viewers will see the axed presenter reflect on the emotional impact of his exile from mainstream TV after news of his affair with a 20-year old runner on This Morning came to light.

It’s understood that Schofield was given a handheld camera, body cameras and a sound pack before being left to record his emotional week-and-a-half long journey.

‘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 through the hour-long first episode in a three-part series.

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