Phillip Schofield: ‘utter betrayal’ made me never want to be a presenter again

Phillip Schofield says the “utter betrayal” by his television colleagues has made him never want to be a daytime presenter again as he returns to the small screen.The 62-year-old former This Morning presenter will be seen in Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, his first appearance on a TV series since he left ITV in May 2023 after he admitted to an “unwise but not illegal” affair with a younger male colleague.When he resigned more than a year ago, he denied having been “forced out” of the daytime show, and said he was “so very, very sorry” for lying to the channel, his colleagues and his wife and friends.However, on the fourth day on the small island of Nosy Ankarea, off the coast of Madagascar, Schofield claims he was “chucked under a bus” and that he could do the same to others but he is “not that sort of person”.In the second episode, he says he had expected to “die on live television at 93”, but now he does not think he wants to do it any…