Terrified Phillip Schofield battles raging storm in new teaser video for his show Cast Away as he admits 'disaster has struck'

Phillip Schofield is forced to battle a raging storm in his upcoming show Cast Away, with a new teaser clip for the Channel 5 series revealing how the star copes alone on the desert island.

The presenter announced this week that he secretly filmed Cast Away, in which he lives on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean for 10 days, this summer. The three-part series will air from Monday across three nights.

The new teaser shows Phillip, 62, filming himself as he beds in for the night in his makeshift camp. 

The exhausted star tells the camera how hungry he is as he explains: 'I want to catch a fish that makes me feel full. I am literally going to sleep as I'm holding this. Anyway, there we go and um I'll see you tomorrow.'

Cutting to 12:34am the footage then shows a storm ravaging his camp as Phil shouts:

'Bloody hell. Disaster has struck, howling wind blowing through everything, it's taken out all the front.'

Continuing to film with his night vision camera, the star's tent can be seen struggling against the wind as Phil tells viewers: 'This is about to tear itself to pieces and there's still every possibility that it will. I wasn't expecting that.'

While Phillip was alone on the island for ten days, the production team were stationed 30 minutes offshore, and were told only to intervene in the event of an extreme emergency. 

Billed as 'an authentic and intense physical and mental challenge' Channel 5 have confirmed that Phillip was 'left alone with only a handful of cameras to document his own experience.' 

It will be the first time Schofield has been on TV since leaving the ITV's This Morning in May 2023 after admitting to having a relationship with a much younger male colleague. 

The scandal, which dominated the headlines for months, led to the breakdown of his friendship with co-presenter Holly Willoughby and 'devastated' his wife Steph. The couple separated in 2020 when Phillip came out as gay but had remained close until his betrayal was revealed. 

One clip from the show sees Schofield in tears telling the camera: 'I know what I did was unwise, but is it enough to completely destroy someone?' 

Viewers will see the axed presenter reflect on the emotional impact of his exile from mainstream TV after news of his affair with a 20-year old runner on This Morning came to light. 

In a statement to promote the series Phil said: 'This is most definitely a first for me and the only thing I felt compelled to do.'

'It appealed to me on so many levels. I've recently had a lot of time to think about my life, what went right and what went wrong, but I've always had the safe arms of friends and family wrapped around me.'

'This time it's just me, no 'phone, no comforts, no crew and only lip balm as a luxury. I'm looking forward to exploring the island, trying to tie knots to secure my shelter and foraging and fending for myself in the wild … with no help.'

'Maybe I'll be Robinson Crusoe, or maybe I'll just be Tom Hank's Wilson and quietly drift off into the wild blue yonder!!'

Channel 5 Commissioning Editor, Guy Davies, added: 'This isn't just a survival challenge, it's chance for Phillip to look back over the last explosive 18 months of his life, and explore what happened.'

'The audience will learn how he feels now about television and the future, as well as the past. And it will be Phillip Schofield as we have never seen him before – unguarded, emotional and brutally honest…'.

'This solitary island existence presents an opportunity for Phillip to confront the challenges of total isolation, the forces of nature and provides the time to battle within his own mind as he explores his own controversial story.'

It was May 2023 when the presenter admitted to having a relationship with a much younger male colleague on This Morning, and later lying about it.

He described their romance as 'unwise but not illegal' and explained it took place during his nearly 30-year marriage to Stephanie Lowe, with whom he is a parent to two children.

Schofield subsequently resigned from both This Morning and ITV and said that he was 'so very sorry' to Lowe for being unfaithful.

At the time, it was reported that Steph had been left 'devastated' by the revelation and angry that her husband had lied to her.

However, it was later revealed she is choosing not to file for divorce because she does not want him to 'fall any further' then he already has, and despite everything, 'the love is still very much there.'

As well as the breakdown of his marriage, Schofield's relationship with co-host Holly Willoughby faltered in the midst of the scandal, with the pair understood to be at loggerheads.

Schofield's daughter Molly is now his publicist after she quit the talent agency that once represented her father.

PR guru Mark Borkowski says his tepid return to the public eye has come after a year away to disappear and get himself together.

Calling him a rare talent, Borkowski said: 'He's testing the waters. But audiences are very forgiving.'

Schofield told the BBC in an emotional interview last June the affair had finished his career and revealed that the fallout had left him feeling suicidal.

He told how his two daughters - Molly and Ruby - had saved his life and had 'guarded me and won't let me out of their sight'.