Phillip Schofield fumes 'I quit' moments into second episode of Channel 5's Cast Away
Phillip Schofield has addressed his future in television as he fumed 'I quit' on Channel 5's Cast Away - after being 'fired' from ITV.
Cast Away: Phillip Schofield 'quits' TV in explosive rant
Former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield fumed: "I quit!" just half an hour into the second episode of his new Channel 5 series.
During the summer, Phillip spent 10 days stranded on a Madagascan island by himself, forced to hunt for food and water. And during an emotional fireside chat on day four, Phil confessed that his future in television isn't looking bright.
On the programme, he admitted: "Isolation has forced me to revisit the past and come to some big decisions about my future. I don’t think I want to do it any more. 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 some people I won’t work for again, some people I won’t work with again. I’ve been hurt so badly by that sort of telly, and by some of the people in that sort of telly, that you get to the point where you think, ‘I don’t wanna do it any more’."
At the end of his rant, Phil said: "Mic drop. I quit."
Launching into a tirade on the programme, Phil admitted: "I don’t want to do it any more. I’ll be slammed for this! ‘Phillip Schofield’s mad rant’. But the thing is, I don’t care any more. I don’t care.
"This is me having my say as I bow out. And the good thing is, when you do a programme like this and you do it just for yourself, you have nothing to lose. They’ve taken pretty much everything – reputation, dignity, legacy. Everything."
But putting a more positive spin on things, he added: "Anyway. I’m not bleating, I’m just getting it off my chest. And the reason I’m doing that is because I am loving this challenge. I am loving what I’m finding out about myself. I am loving every day.
"When I get on that boat and I leave here, I will know that I did my best and I’ve said my piece. Anyone who’s bitter about that, honestly you can f*** off, because I don’t give a sh**. I quit. Mic drop."
In episode one, Phillip claimed he was "fired" from ITV as he "doesn't quit", after stepping back from hosting This Morning when his "unwise but not illegal" affair with a younger colleague came out.
