ANGRY Phillip Schofield has blamed his downfall on a trio of leading figures at ITV — branding them the “three shs of showbiz”.

The telly veteran lets rip as he sits next to a desert island campfire on his new documentary show.

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Among those he appears to take aim at in Channel 5’s Cast Away — which starts tomorrow — are his former This Morning co-host Holly Willoughby.

Another is thought to be This Morning editor Martin Frizell, who Phil seems to blame for letting him take the fall over “queuegate” when he and Holly were accused of pushing in to see the Queen lying in state.

Other targets could include ITV chief Dame Carolyn McCall.

Discussing how he was forced to leave This Morning after 22 years following a fling with a much younger man, Phillip, 62, rants: “They know how important that was to me.

“They know 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.”

He goes on: “People can be fake. They can be so fake with you when it’s all going well, and suddenly utter, utter betrayal.

“There are a lot of amazing people in morning television.

“I think there are only three sh*s. One of them is a coward who never stepped up in queuegate.

“One is a coward, because they never stepped up when I was being battered And the other is just brand-orientated.

“Not what you expect, not what you think you’re going to get.”

In a dig at his former management firm YMU, which still represents top TV talent, Phillip reveals they axed him by text.

He says: “I was suicidal and they sent me what looked like a cut and pasted text.

“Thirty one years. There is so much more I could say.”

Elsewhere in the three-parter which sees him spend ten days alone on a small island off Madagascar, Phillip hints the show is his showbiz swansong.

He says: “They’ve taken pretty much everything. Reputation, dignity, legacy, everything.

People can be fake. They can be so fake with you when it’s all going well, and suddenly utter, utter betrayal

Phillip Schofield

“I’m not bleating, I’m just getting it off my chest. And anyone who’s bitter about that, honestly, you can f* off ’cause I don’t give a s*t. I quit.”

Holly, 43, yesterday shrugged off the controversy, celebrating the third birthday of her wellness company Wylde Moon.

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Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang has shared more details about the unnamed host who he said made cast members cry.

During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen last month, Yang was asked to reveal the worst SNL host behavior he’d ever witnessed. “This man – this person, this host – made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday before the table read because he hated the ideas,” he responded.

Yang was asked to elaborate on the incident during Wednesday’s episode of David Spade and Dana Carvey’s Fly on the Wall podcast.

Yang said it was “more about the environment of the place” than the celebrity host’s behavior alone.

“Imagine you stay up until 4am writing a sketch, and then the host is like: ‘I f***ing hate this,’ you’re gonna have some [reaction],” he explained. “Your nerves are frayed.

“You’re gonna have some weird, bizarre, emotional response,” Yang continued, adding that he wasn’t “the one who cried.”

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Carvey and Spade, who both starred in the long-running NBC sketch series in the Nineties, sympathized with their fellow comedian.

Spade recalled getting in trouble for saying that Steven Seagal had been the worst host to work with on SNL during a 2015 interview on Watch What Happens Live.

“Everyone gets in trouble for saying something, but that’s what everyone asks, and you can only dodge it for so long,” Spade said. “You just try to explain why they weren’t great.”

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Spade said of Seagal at the time: “He was a little tough. I mean, he was actually tough, and he was tough to work with. It was hard. He did not want to play along.”

SNL returns on 28 September with a re-assembled lineup of familiar faces, plus three new cast members.

The new series will see Maya Rudolph reprise her Emmy-winning take on Vice President Kamala Harris amid her bid for the presidency.

Yang first joined SNL as a writer in 2018 before he was promoted to part of the on-air cast a year later.

Since joining as a full-time cast member, some of Yang’s most memorable skits have included him portraying a talking balloon in reference to the suspected Chinese spy balloon that was shot down by the US military in February 2023. In October 2022, he also memorably skewered Elon Musk, Kanye West, Joe Biden and Chris Pratt during the show’s cold open.

In 2021, Yang made SNL history as the first Chinese American cast member to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, which he earned after having only appeared on two seasons of the NBC comedy sketch show.

Elsewhere on the Fly on the Wall podcast, Yang said season 49 host Sydney Sweeney “practically begged” the SNL cast to “make jokes about my boobs.”

DANI Dyer has asked fans for help after one of her twin daughters contracted a nasty infection that has left her scratching and bleeding. 

The former Love Island star is a proud mum to one-year-old twin daughters, Star and Summer, and three-year-old son, Santiago, but has been struggling after they’ve all fallen sick. 

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However, taking to Instagram today, Dani revealed poor baby Star has got the worst of it after contracting a painful illness. 

In the video, the kids can be heard screaming in the background as she talks to her followers from her kitchen counter. 

She told her fans: “Star’s got hand, foot and mouth, and you can’t do anything about that, can you? 

“I’ve looked and looked, but is there any remedies because she is scratching it so much she is bleeding.”

Explaining she was due a phone call with the doctor to try and get help, she added: “I know they genuinely can’t do anything, and now I’m looking at Summer thinking ‘you’re going to get it.’” 

“I just feel like the illnesses are constant,” said the exhausted mum. “A few weeks ago Santiago had impetigo, then chicken pox, then Star got a little impetigo. 

“Star is usually the sickly one, if anyone is going to get ill out of the twins it is usually Star. I can’t leave the house!”

Hand, foot and mouth, according to the NHS, is common in young children and usually gets better on its own between seven to ten days. 

Symptoms include a sore throat, high temperature and mouth ulcers, as well as a rash on hands and feet. 

The illness leaves those suffering from it with a low appetite. 

It is not, as is sometimes assumed, related to foot and mouth disease which affects animals. 

Dani later took to Instagram again to thank followers for their kind messages, sharing that Star had managed to finally get some sleep, with the hope she would feel slightly better once she woke up. 

“In my personal opinion, I feel like hand, foot and mouth is worse than chicken pox,” she added. “Star has cried all morning, she’s had a sleep this afternoon, so I’m hoping she wakes up better, but she’s in so much pain, like her mouth…

“It’s just worse than chicken pox.” 

She added that her mum Jo, is also sick so wasn’t able to come and help her, before sarcastically laughing and adding: “I’m really enjoying myself. If I don’t laugh, I’ll cry.” 

Dani is engaged to footballer Jarrod Bowen, with the West Ham star getting down on one knee and proposing in July while on holiday in Spain. 

The couple have been together since 2021, and together they share twins Star and Summer.

Santiago was born during Dani’s relationship with former partner, Sammy Kimmence.

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