Phillip Schofield vows to never work for ITV again in scathing attack

Former This Morning and Dancing On Ice host Schofield might not be welcome back at ITV but either way, he won't be returning following his abrupt exit last year

Phillip Schofield makes it clear there is no love lost with ITV in the new show - vowing he would never work there again.

Before heading off to tropical island off the coast of Madagascar he says he is being tipped to do I'm A Celebrity on ITV where he used to work. But Schofield says: "Although my best mates host it(Ant and Dec), there are some channels you just won't work for. There are some people you won't work for."

Schofield says his career on This Morning came to an "abrupt end". But he actually put out the statement confirming he was leaving ITV himself, following his affair. On May 26 last year Schofield said in a statement: "I am painfully conscious that I have lied to my employers at ITV, to my colleagues and friends, to my agents, to the media and therefore the public and most importantly of all to my family. I am so very, very sorry, as I am for having been unfaithful to my wife.

"I have therefore decided to step down from the British Soap Awards, my last public commitment, and am resigning from ITV with immediate effect expressing my immense gratitude to them for all the amazing opportunities that they have given me. "I will reflect on my very bad judgement in both participating in the relationship and then lying about it."

Schofield also uses the first episode of his Cast Away show to put the boot into former friend Holly Willoughby. Sitting down for. BBQ with his wife and two daughters with a glint in his eye, Schofield says: "If you're okay, then we're okay and I'm Okay. Are you okay?" And it is not the only time in the opening episode he appears to put the boot in to his old employers and possibly other hosts like Holly.

Biting on a piece of fruit he says: "It's going through an angry bitter stage...like some television presenters haha." One celebrity Schofield does have a lot of time for is Dame Joanna Lumley who shows her support and "love" for Phillip Schofield with a video message as he jets off for his Channel 5 survival show. The Absolutely Fabulous actress, 78, was cast away off the coast of Madagascar in Girl Friday, a 1994 BBC programme that took its name from a character in Daniel Defoe's island-set adventurer novel Robinson Crusoe.

As he prepares to arrive on the island for Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, Dame Joanna sent him a message saying: "Listen, Phil these are the tips I've got, keep your knives sharp, spend much of the day trying to find wood otherwise you won't be able to eat anything. "When I was on the island I made a pair of shoes out of my bra... and I would love to think that you could do something a bit challenging, and bring it back so we could all look at it.

"I shall be thinking of you all the time Phil, and actually I'm a little bit jealous, lots of love." Schofield, 62, said: "Oh you darling, thank you so much, that's amazing."

When comedian Ruby Wax was left on an island in the Indian Ocean for 10 days, and had to document her own story with body and hand-held cameras, in the first series of the show, she was sent a letter from Dame Joanna.

In the three-part show, Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, the former presenter will be in a similar situation, trying to find his own food and shelter to survive.

* Phillip Schofield: Cast Away begins at 9pm on Monday on Channel 5, and will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday at the same time.

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