Phillip Schofield has been pictured in public for the first time in weeks after travelling to Cornwall to ride out his affair fallout.
The former This Morning presenter, 61, appeared glum as he clutched onto a vape and had his bag slung over one shoulder as he prepared to celebrate his beloved mum's birthday.
Phillip stepped down from all hosting duties with ITV and was dropped by his agent after he admitted to an affair with a younger ITV employee.
The fallen ITV presenter later spoke about the affair and the impact the fallout has had on him in a candid TV interview with the BBC, where he admitted contemplating taking his own life.
Since then, Phillip has remained completely out of the spotlight, admitting that he has felt 'scared' to go out in public due to fears of being abused or 'spat at'.
However, he has now broken cover during an outing where he was spotted out in Cornwall and was said to be celebrating his mother Pat's 87th birthday - as he does every year.
Phillip sported a blue T-shirt and off-white shorts, which he matched with a pair of blue and white Converse trainers.
Body language expert Judi James feels as though Phillip is now a 'changed man', with the controversy not only taking a toll on his emotions and mental health, but also his appearance after he admitted to losing a substantial amount of weight amid the turmoil of his career ending.
"There are deep furrows etched on his forehead and deep grooves down either side of his mouth," Judi shared. "His face looks jowly from side view but that’s possibly a result of the weight he said he had dropped since the drama started."
"But otherwise Schofield looks tanned and relatively relaxed here, like a man who has taken what must be his first break from work in several decades."
Although Phillip looked like shell of himself during his BBC tell-all interview, it appears that he is slowly getting back to himself, with Judi predicting that he is in a more 'good humoured' mood around his beloved mum - who has been a pillar of support to hum throughout the past two months.
"We’re so used to seeing the signature Schofield perky smile on our screens that an unsmiling Philip does look dramatically dour but, despite the lip clamp, his one raised brow and the micro-curve of his lips suggests a good humoured response to the person he is with," Judi explained.
"There’s no sign of tension in his shoulders or his legs but, in a nod to his previously busy professional lifestyle, he seems to be clutching his phone, keys and what looks like the ever-present vape we saw him using in his interviews, all in the one hand."
It comes after Phil gave a series of bombshell interviews, where he discussed the impact the backlash to his affair admission had on his mental health.
The presenter said: "I do not know a time I will be able to walk out of the door.
"I don’t have any spirit. My friends tell me, 'It will get better'. It won’t. Not now. Not this one."
Phillip admitted he has never suffered any abuse in public before, but now fears he will be shouted at or spat on.
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