PHILLIP Schofield’s daughter Ruby has paid a touching tribute to her late grandmother Pat Schofield.
TV star Phillip, 62, announced Pat’s death aged 88 on Instagram yesterday and both of his daughters have now publicly posted about it too.
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Sharing a throwback picture of Pat and her husband Brian, Ruby, 28, wrote: “We will miss you so much Bo [heartbreak emoji].
“Love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
“Bri has been waiting for you. Give him the biggest hug for us.”
Ruby’s sister Molly, 31, also shared a heartfelt tribute to Pat following the news of her passing.
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“Love you so much, Bo” Molly wrote over a photo of Pat with her granddaughters.
She added: “Give a huge kiss to Bri when you see him.”
Brian Schofield died in 2008. Phillip previously revealed how he resuscitated his dad three decades ago after he suffered a heart attack in New Zealand.
He said on This Morning: “If I hadn’t been in that night, then there was no chance he would have survived and lived for another 30 years to see his grandchildren.”
Phillip took to Instagram last night to inform his 2.7 million followers of the devastating loss.
Sharing several touching photos of his beloved mum, the former ITV presenter expressed his heartbreak.
In his emotional post, Phillip wrote: “Today, at 3pm and after a heartbreaking weekend, my magnificent mum decided it was time to go to her beloved Brian.
“Over three days, we held her, loved her, hugged her, and said everything that needed to be said.
“She was calm, peaceful, beautiful, and dignified. I will forever be proud and privileged that she was my mum. I love you mum, forever.”
The TV star also expressed his gratitude to the medical staff who had cared for his mother, praising the paramedics and the critical care team for their support.
He shared more personal moments, including a video of his adventurous mother wing walking on a plane, which he said he “loved her for”.
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Molly and Ruby’s tributes come after they appeared in Cast Away last month.
The Channel 5 programme was Phillip’s big return to TV over a year after his departure from This Morning.
His exit in May 2023 followed his admission of an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a junior colleague during his time on the ITV show.
Despite the challenges of the past year, Phillip has received unwavering support from his family, with Molly, Ruby, and their mother Stephanie Lowe remaining by his side throughout.
Cast Away verdict
By Rod McPhee
OVER three nights – and three hour-long episodes – Phillip Schofield has been bearing his soul in new Channel 5 show Cast Away.
And it’s basically a chance for the former This Morning host to explain the circumstances that saw him leave the show last year.
To put it mildly, he left under something of a cloud, admitting he’d had a fling with a much younger runner on the programme. But in the C5 show he presents his own versions of events – one which is at odds with the narrative that emerged at the time.
He was portrayed as a man who’d had an “unwise” affair, who’d resigned as a result and had let many of his colleagues down.
But in Cast Away Philip insists he was fired by ITV and not for the affair, but because of the bad publicity that surrounded the crimes of his paedophile brother. He summed it up best when he claimed he’d been “pushed under a bus.”
After watching Cast Away what you’re left with is something rather confusing, however.
Did Philip think he’d done something wrong by having the fling with the runner, or not? For example, he said he wouldn’t have been slammed for it quite so much if it were a heterosexual fling.
He said he: “would have received a pat on the back for having an affair with a woman.” This infers that the only thing wrong with it was that it was a same sex fling. So why does he also say: “I will be forever sorry. I screwed up. I made a mistake.”
The answer, I suspect, is that the whole affair was a murky business. There were so many blurred lines around appropriateness, professionalism and honesty.
The only firm conclusion you can draw from the show is that Phillip himself isn’t ENTIRELY sure to what extent He was guilty of wrongdoing.
Amid the confusion, what will the viewing public think? I suspect that this will leave those who disliked Phillip to feel even more suspicious of him.
Those who backed him, will feel reassured too. But those who still aren’t sure what to think will be none-the-wiser – and I’m not sure if that’s what Phillip would have wanted.