The presenter was disgraced after an abuse of power in the workplace. His appearance on Cast Away is strategic – but you, the public, will decide if it’s successful

In what feels like the blink of an eye, Phillip Schofield is heading back to our primetime screens.

He never was a casualty of cancel culture – this was a spectacular career collapse sparked by a serious HR violation, an abuse of power and a betrayal of his inner circle, not to mention millions of viewers who saw one man and realised he was another. “I have brought myself down. I am done. I have to talk about television in the past tense, which breaks my heart,” he said then. But that was then.

Mark Borkowski is a crisis PR consultant and author