Phillip Schofield has reportedly mocked former This Morning colleague Holly Willoughby on his comeback series Cast Away.
The 62-year-old is said to ask “are you ok?” to the camera in the Channel 5 reality show, in a parody of the much-mocked intro by his former best friend.
The premise of the new series, which begins over three hour-long episodes from Monday, is for disgraced presenter Schofield to spend 10 days stranded on a desert island.
In the self-filmed experience, he films himself talking about his fall from grace - that saw him leave ITV staple This Morning in 2023 after admitting an affair with a younger male staffer.
He admitted the affair, conducted when he was in his 50s and the man was in his 20s, was “unwise but not illegal”.
Cast Away is his first appearance back on TV.
“In the last 18 months my life has totally unravelled,” he says in the opening credits. “I locked myself away from the outside world.”
He also opened up about his time suffering with poor mental health and said that his daughter Molly, 31, talked him down from the edge of the abyss.
Schofield came out as gay in 2020 on the show alongside Willoughby, who at the time was said to be his best friend.
The two fell out amid the scandal and are now said to not be speaking.
Willoughby fronted This Morning alone in 2023 after Schofield’s departure and told the camera: “Hello, firstly, are you okay? I hope so. It feels very strange sat here without Phil.”
A clip seen by the Mail shows Schofield and his family parodying the clip as part of filming for Cast Away.
On the Channel 5, the presenter opens up further about his homosexuality.
In an early-obtained clip, he said: “For me, doing it later in life, at the moment, it’s just given me more anguish than joy. Because I’m fully aware of the damage that it leaves.
"I still have the love of my family. Never wavered.”
