Life's What You Make It: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2020

Phillip Schofield

Oct 2020 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

Spend time with Phil this Christmas in his funny, uplifting, occasionally heartbreaking and always honest life story

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Searingly honest, brave, highly readable' Sunday Express
'[A] fantastic read on such an interesting life' Lorraine Kelly
'A really smashing book' Michael Ball
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For forty years we've been watching Phillip - from children's TV to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and This Morning - but what is life like behind the scenes and who is he when the camera is off?

In Life's What You Make It Phillip tells us his secrets, whisking us from an idyllic Cornwall childhood via pestering the BBC for a job to hanging out with stars of stage and screen.

Packed with stories he's never told, here's all the excitement of live TV, the mayhem and mistakes, the friendships with beloved co-stars and the sadness of onscreen breakups.

Above all, it's the wonderful tale of how life - like our favourite shows - is truly and always what you make it.
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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

'Candid, brave and readable . . . This Morning fans will love stories of his 18 years on the show' Sunday Express

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

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

Ratings and reviews

Fancy coming out after having kids and breaking his wife's heart.. it's selfish in my eyes. I always said he was a drama queen.

Disgusting human being, #groomcupboard #mathewmcreevey Itv paid millions to cover up his affair with a small boy.

What this book can be really about? This man doesn't sound like anything special at all. He could not even for most of his life say that he is gay? Such a cowalt who thinks that he can make some extra money of his stories which probably are not that great . He is just a presenter who who some reason work for such a long time in tv but I would not buy his book ever

About the author

Phillip Schofield is one of our most loved TV presenters, having spent nearly 40 years hosting some of the biggest shows on screen. Since gaining popularity working as a children's presenter for the BBC hosting The Broom Cupboard in 1985, Phillip has gone on to present multiple series of Going Live and more recently, Dancing On Ice, The Cube, 5 Gold Rings, Mr & Mrs and two Royal Weddings. He has performed on stage as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and as Doctor Dolittle. Phillip has hosted ITV's This Morning since 2002, now alongside his "on screen wife" Holly Willoughby, which has won the National Television Award for Best Daytime Programme fifteen times.