SCHO FOR IT

This Morning's Alison. Josie & Dermot back show's ex-star as he bids for TV comeback

- MARK JEFFERIES

THIS Morning trio Alison Hammond, Josie Gibson and Dermot O'Leary are supporting Phillip Schofield as he launches a career comeback hosting a new Channel 5 series.

Schofield, 62, quit This Morning last year after he admitted lying about an affair with a man 34 years his junior who had worked on the daytime show.

At the time he said his TV career was finished but he is now attempting to resurrect himself on screen.

In three-part series Cast Away he will spend 10 days on a remote, unpopulated island off the coast of Madagascar.

Channel 5 say Phillip will "confront the challenges of total isolation, the forces of nature and provide the time to battle within his own mind as he explores his own controversial story".