Phillip Schofield (born on April 1 1962 in Oldham, England) is a British TV presenter and occasional actor and singer.
When he was 17 he moved with his family to New Zealand where he made his TV debut 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 with a Sunday show (also called Going Live).
He then moved onto 'grown-up' TV with various documentaries and holiday programmes for ITV. To many people's surprise (but to enormous acclaim), he changed career and took over the role of Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat from Jason Donovan on the West End stage, and had a moderately placed single in the UK charts with Close Every Door as a consequence. Another theatre production he's renowned for is Dr Doolittle.
Schofield presented Talking Telephone Numbers for five series until its demise. He currently presents the National Lottery - Winning Lines programme for the BBC 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?.
He was infamous for going grey-haired at an early age and subsequently dyeing it black for a while. He is now proudly grey once again.
One of Schofield'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. To this day he is mentioned (and even occasionally makes the odd appearance) on Schofield's TV appearances, usually as a joke or novelty. When Schofield appeared on Room 101 Gordon was the first thing Schofield asked to be interred there. Possibly because of fond childhood memories, the audience took the side of the rodent.
Schofield is married and is currently co-presenting the celebrity reality television show, Dancing on Ice.