Phillip Schofield throws 'enemies' names into fire' in bizarre cleansing ritual as fans try to work out true identities

Phillip Schofield burns the names of people who have wronged him and then bares all for viewers on Channel 5 show

Phillip Schofield insisted he was free of toxicity after burning a list of names of people he disliked before running into the sea naked on his new TV show. The TV host will kickstart a guessing game after he performs the ritual by the fire on the remote island off of Madagascar.

He tells the cameras: "There’s something I’ve done here that I haven’t shared with you yet, and now’s the time. Over the course of my 10 days, I have written down all the things and all the people who were and are toxic in my life and so I have that now, it's there, that's it."

Throwing the names which are on paper into the fire before viewers can read them, he says: "And now the toxic bank is empty, and the goodness bank is full. Don’t dwell on what you have lost. Live for what you have and be grateful for it." He also says: "You have to be joyful about the future, no matter what the future might be." And he then runs into the sea naked."

The TV host leaves the island after ten days in high spirits and certainly seems to have got many problems off his chest. He has burned names of people he hates, blasted ITV saying he was fired by them and criticised former friends for throwing him under a bus. He also said his affair would have been accepted if it had been with a younger woman instead of a man.

Schofield insists after leaving ITV he also lost many friends, thought to include Holly Willoughby as the pair no longer speak or share messages on social media.

He added: "When what happened to me happened to me, it screwed up my favourite building in the world, and it pretty well blew away all those happy memories, and suddenly the place became hostile to me, and that was heartbreaking. And the people who did it to me know, they know how important that building was to me.

"They know that when you throw someone under a bus, you've got to have a really bloody good reason to do it. Brand, ambition is not good enough. It's not a good enough reason to throw someone under a bus." He added that "people can be so fake with you when it's all going well, and suddenly utter, utter betrayal".

"When the tidal wave washed through and it washed everybody away," he added. "The ones that are still standing. They're the ones that matter. And I thought: 'How many friends do you need? I don't need 200 fake friends'. I've got, what? Ten, 15 friends that I would die for, they would die for me."

But although he is on Channel 5 this week, a full time return to TV is not guaranteed. He later adds: "What is next for me? nothing. I am happy with nothing. I have got family and friends and dog. I am not saying I am done but never in a million years will I go back to daytime telly. I've lived 100 TV lives."

Phillip Schofield Cast Away airs for three nights from Monday 30 ^th September at 9pm on Channel 5, available to stream on My5

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