Phillip Schofield has threatened to reverse over some of his former TV colleagues in a proverbial bus after he felt they threw him under it when his career imploded.

The 62-year-old television host saw his ITV presenting career go up in flames last year when he confessed to an “unwise, but not illegal” affair with a younger colleague behind-the-scenes of the iconic ITV flagship daytime show This Morning.

He was forced to cut ties with ITV and he was immediately dropped by his agents who claimed they were blindsided by his betrayal. This week, the star has attempted to rehabilitate his damaged public image through a series of documentaries all about him.

He is starring in the Channel 5 show Phillip Schofield Cast Away which saw him abandoned on a remote desert island and forced to fend for himself – while being equipped with cameras to document his experience. The host began searching his soul while in the sunshine and his thoughts have formed the basis for the three-part series – which TV fans have branded narcissistic and devoid of remorse.

Phillip Schofield on Cast Away
The former This Morning host was dumped on a desert island as part of an elaborate PR exercise ( 
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In the second episode of the series, Schofield has appeared to make a threat against former colleagues – whose lives he has hinted he could destroy. The former This Morning host said: “People just went, who I thought were my friends and they just went and that’s like ‘what the hell’.” He continued: “I have been chucked under a bus, and I could drive the same bus over so many people but I’m not that sort of person, I never have been. But if I sit down with a camera and the light’s going who knows what I’ll say.”

Elsewhere in the show, he implied he had bitterly fallen out with former colleagues. He said: “I miss parts of being on TV, certainly. I miss most of it, if I’m honest, I miss most of it. But there are bits that I really, really, really don’t miss. You learn a lot about people, I don’t miss that.”

 

Schofield hosted This Morning for 21 years before his own behaviour ruined his own career. His final co-host, Holly Willoughby, also quit the show last year after coming under a torrent of abuse from TV fans over her past close friendship with Schofield, and after police uncovered a horrifying kidnap plot against her.

Now something of a digital recluse who barely posts online in the wake of her safety scare, Holly took to Instagram on Monday night – when episode one of Schofield’s show aired – to show she had gone to the theatre to support her friend Tamzin Outhwaite in her new production. Holly posted a beaming snap of herself congratulating Tamzin after her show – which some fans have interpreted as a proverbial middle finger to Schofield.