Profile of Phillip Schofield on Famous Like Me

Phillip Schofield (born on April 1, 1962 in Oldham, England). When he was 17 he moved with his family to New Zealand where he made his TV appearance presenting the children's music programme Shazam! in 1982. After a year or so, he moved back to the UK, where he first appeared on UK television presenting Children's BBC on weekdays (from "the broom cupboard") in the '80s and then Going Live! on Saturday mornings for many years. In this era he was also a presenter on BBC Radio 1.

In the early '90s, he was famously attacked on live TV by Fruitbat of Carter USM for saying that Carter shouldn't be dismissed as merely a synthpop duo with a silly name, "they've got silly haircuts as well."

He then moved onto 'grown-up' TV with various documentaries and holiday programs for ITV. He took over the role of Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (theatre) from Jason Donovan. Another theatre production he's renowned for is Doctor Dolittle.

He also presented Talking Telephone Numbers for five series until its demise. He currently presents the BBC National Lottery - Winning Lines programme and a daytime TV talk-show, This Morning on ITV, along with Fern Britton and Lorraine Kelly. He also presents Test the Nation, a BBC nationwide quiz, alongside Anne Robinson and the daytime programme, Have I Been Here Before?.

Phillip was infamous for going grey haired at an early age and subsequently dyeing it black for a while before giving up on the bottle black.

One of Phillip's pet peeves is constantly being remembered as the companion of Gordon the gopher (a puppet) from his Children's BBC and Going Live! days. No surprise then that when he appeared on Room 101 Gordon was the first thing Schofield asked to be interred there. The audience took the side of the rodent.

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