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Kerry Katona slams Phillip Schofield’s TV comeback as 'tone deaf' as she predicts his next move

Kerry Katona has dubbed Phillip Schofield's return to TV with his Channel 5 show, Cast Away, as 'tone deaf' and predicted a reality TV appearance for the shamed presenter.

by · Irish Mirror

Phillip Schofield's return to TV has ruffled many feathers, and one person who hasn't held back on her opinions is Kerry Katona - who has slammed the former This Morning presenter's new Channel 5 show. Not one to mince her words, former Atomic Kitten star Kerry shared her thoughts in her New! Magazine column this week, writing: " Phillip Schofield is back on screen this week with his Channel 5 show Cast Away and I was quite surprised at his return to television.

"If I’m honest, I think it’s a really self-indulgent move to have him alone on a desert island, playing the pity card. He talks about living with absolutely nothing on this island, but then he goes back to his big house, wealth and home comforts. I think it’s really tone-deaf. Saying that, we’re obviously all watching it, aren’t we?

Predicting his next move, Kerry added that reality TV could be in Phillip's future, saying: "I think Phil will do Celebrity Big Brother next and I’d love to go in with him. Big Brother, if you’re casting, please put us in – I’d be brutally honest with him."

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Phillip is returning to the small screen this evening (Monday 29 September) with the new show, Cast Away, which sees the presenter 'surviving' alone on a desert island. Throughout the show, Phillip is expected to tell all from the last 16 months he has spent away from TV since stepping down from This Morning and revealing an 'unwise but not illegal' affair with a young male runner on the show.

Kerry admitted she thinks the show is 'self-indulgent'(Image: REX/Shutterstock)

And while many, including Kerry, are expecting this new venture to lead to Phillip coming back to TV for good, he appears to have ruled that out.

He says during the show: "You expect your life to follow a path? I honestly thought, you know. I'm going to die on live television, hopefully at 93. But then you know it. It's gone. And it's not the way you planned it to be. It's not the life you expected."

While Phillip is expected to tell his side of the story with the new venture, 16 months after he left TV(Image: PA)

Later in the programme he refers to the trip to the remote island as "the last challenge". He then adds: "Look I love telly. I've got telly in my bones but I won't sit on a sofa again. I'm not going to do that again. There are people I won't work with again. Some people I won't work with again. I've been hurt so badly by that sort of telly, that you get to a point where you think 'I don't want to do it anymore'."

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