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Phillip Schofield admits he had 'everything in place' for a suicide attempt after This Morning scandal in candid admission on Cast Away


Speaking on the first episode of the three-part series which airs on Monday, the former This Morning host, 62, said: 'In the last eighteen months, it got as dark as it is possible to get.'

But when disgraced presenter Phillip Schofield quit the channel last year after he admitted to having a relationship with a much younger male colleague on This Morning - and later lying about it - he said things became so dark that he planned to take his own life. In his much criticised television comeback on Channel 5 programme Cast Away he tells how he had ‘everything in place’ for a suicide attempt, but decided against it when his eldest daughter Molly persuaded him not to. Schofield notably doesn’t mention Ms Willoughby or his former lover who he signed a mutual non-disclosure agreement with earlier this year in return for a six-figure payment to him.

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