Life's What You Make It :

The Sunday Times

Bestseller 2020
 By
Phillip Schofield
Penguin Books Ltd
 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Discover the funny, uplifting, occasionally heartbreaking and

always honest life story of Phillip Schofield

'[A] fantastic read on such an interesting life' Lorraine Kelly

'A really smashing book' Michael Ball

For forty years we've watched Phillip on our tellies, from children's
TV to This Morning and Dancing on Ice, but what is it like on set
and who is he when the camera's off?

In Life's What You Make It Philip for the first time takes us behind
the scenes of his remarkable career.

From his idyllic childhood in Cornwall, where for years he pestered

the BBC for a job, eventually landing a prize position in the Broom
Cupboard with mischievous sidekick Gordon the Gopher, through
hosting Going Live!, starring in Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolour Dreamcoat and finally finding his on-screen home and
presenting-partner Holly Willoughby on This Morning, Phillip takes
us on the highs and lows of his extraordinary life.
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'For a long time, I felt that I couldn't write this book. At first, I didn't
think I'd lived enough, then life got busy and filled with distractions.
In more recent years, there was always a very painful consideration
- I knew where it would eventually have to go.
'I have recently decided that the truth is the only thing that can set
me free. The truth has taken a long time to make itself clear to me,
but now is the right time to share it, all of it.

'Television and broadcasting has been a part of my DNA for as long

as I can remember. As a young boy I would make model TV sets
out of cardboard boxes, while spending long summers at home,
barefoot on Cornwall's golden beaches. Landing a job at the ice-
cream kiosk, I would enviously look on as my presenting heroes
took to the stage of Radio 1's Roadshow, an unforgettable event
when it came to town.

'In Life's What You Make It I look back with nostalgic delight on
my life, from being a young boy endlessly writing letters to the
BBC in pursuit of a job in broadcasting, to making it on to the
Broom Cupboard, with my infamous sidekick Gordon the Gopher,
to being on Going Live and starring as the lead in Lord Andrew
Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
It has taken four decades to get here but I feel lucky to have called
the sets of Talking Telephone Numbers, The Cube, Dancing on Ice
and of course, This Morning, home.

'I'm going to take you behind the scenes of my television home at

ITV, into my career and my dangerously funny relationship with
Holly Willoughby. I'm going to introduce you to my loving and
remarkable family, and I hope most of all to tell you that life, it
seems, is what you make it. Take it from someone who has sat on
the very edge and looked over, it's all about the people that love
you, and after that anything is possible. So, finally, here we go, this
is the real me.'
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'A beautiful book. There are amazing stories in there about meeting
Princess Diana, the Red Arrows and all of our favourite telly shows.
It's a delight' Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2

'We have loved your book - you've been so honest, open, everything
that anyone will have hoped to get from this book . . . you get it. A
stroll through your incredible career and you also tackle, head on, in
a really beautiful way what happened earlier this year' Andrea
McLean, Loose Women

'One of our favourite things is the many hilarious anecdotes he has

to share about his good friend Holly Willoughby' Hello!

'The book we've all been waiting for . . . we haven't been able to put
it down' New

'A bona fide national treasure . . . He tells his story in his way, with
great honesty' Prima

'A fantastic read!' Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2

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