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Phillip Schofield emotionally reveals his life nearly ended in suicide – but his daughters saved him
Phillip Schofield breaks down in tears as he opens up in his new TV show, Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, about how “dark” his life became and how his daughters helped him “take a step back from the edge”
Episode one kicks off with Phillip pondering over the prospect of isolation on a desert island and candidly admits: "I think there'd be an awful lot of people that hope I never come back." As the programme explores his journey through children's TV, treading the boards in theatre, and hosting This Morning with Holly Willoughby, he muses whether the "ultimate isolation can finally set me free" or if he'll be "consumed by my inner demons". Phillip Schofield on an island off the coast of Madagascar, on Channel 5's Cast AwayDetailing the unexpected career halt, he shared: "When it came to a sudden very abrupt end, you know one minute you're there and then the next minute you're gone, you know what it feels like to be cancelled," and likened it to "It's like the biggest grenade going off in your life, and you know you let people down, you've let yourself down, and it was unwise and (an) unprofessional thing to do, I will be forever sorry, I screwed up, I made a mistake, and I hurt the people around me."
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