Philip Schofield, 2023: "I have brought myself down. I am done. I have to talk about television in the past tense, which breaks my heart."

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Sixteen months is a long time in television, it seems. This week, it emerged that the disgraced presenter will be the subject of a three-part Channel 5 series called Cast Away, where Schofield will spend 10 days on a desert island giving his version of the tawdry scandal that brought about his downfall.

How very tasteful. I can see why Schofield might seize an opportunity to revive his TV career, but what was Channel 5 thinking of? How cynical do you have to be to turn allegations of sexual exploitation into a form of light entertainment?

Sadly, in our voyeuristic, celebrity-obsessed world, Cast........

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