Holly Willoughby's response as Phillip Schofield burns 'enemies' names in fire on Cast Away show

Holly Willoughby has remained tight-lipped after her former This Morning co-star Phillip Schofield burned the names of his enemies in a first on his new Channel 5 show, Cast Away.

Former This Morning host Holly, 43, who quit the ITV show in October 2023 after a terrifying kidnap plot, has remained completely silent and has not addressed Phillip's actions on the controversial show.

The disgraced TV star, 62, who was axed from ITV after his affair with a much younger colleague was exposed last year, said that he was free of toxicity after burning a list of names of people he disliked before running into the sea naked on his new show.

The TV host has kickstarted a guessing game after he performed the ritual by the fire on the remote island off of Madagascar where he was 'cast away' after the public turned against him following his 'unwise but not illegal affair'.

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He told the cameras: "There’s something I’ve done here that I haven’t shared with you yet, and now’s the time. Over the course of my 10 days, I have written down all the things and all the people who were and are toxic in my life and so I have that now, it's there, that's it."

Throwing the names which were on paper into the fire before viewers could read them, he said: "And now the toxic bank is empty, and the goodness bank is full. Don’t dwell on what you have lost. Live for what you have and be grateful for it." He also said: "You have to be joyful about the future, no matter what the future might be." And he then ran into the sea naked.

The TV host left the island after ten days in high spirits and appeared to have rid himself of several problems off his chest. He has burned names of people he hates, blasted ITV saying he was fired by them and criticised former friends for throwing him under a bus and also said his affair would have been accepted if it had been with a younger woman instead of a man.

During the new Channel 5 show, Schofield also insisted that after leaving ITV he also lost many friends, thought to include Holly as the pair no longer speak or share messages on social media.

He said: "When what happened to me happened to me, it screwed up my favourite building in the world, and it pretty well blew away all those happy memories, and suddenly the place became hostile to me, and that was heartbreaking. And the people who did it to me know, they know how important that building was to me.

"They know that when you throw someone under a bus, you've got to have a really bloody good reason to do it. Brand, ambition is not good enough. It's not a good enough reason to throw someone under a bus." He added that "people can be so fake with you when it's all going well, and suddenly utter, utter betrayal".

"When the tidal wave washed through and it washed everybody away," he added. "The ones that are still standing. They're the ones that matter. And I thought: 'How many friends do you need? I don't need 200 fake friends'. I've got, what? Ten, 15 friends that I would die for, they would die for me."

Phillip Schofield Cast Away airs for three nights at 9pm on Channel 5, available to stream on My5.

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