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Life's What You Make It
Life's What You Make It
Oct 8, 2024 8:30 PM

Author:Phillip Schofield

Life's What You Make It

Get to know the real Philip Schofield 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

Reviews

It's fascinating, it's funny and it's beautifully written . . . brilliant

—— Chris Moyles, Radio X

What a fascinating memoir

—— Tim Peake

Explosive

—— Sun

[A] fantastic read on such an interesting life

—— Lorraine Kelly

A really smashing book

—— Michael Ball

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

—— Sunday Express

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

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

—— New

A fantastic read!

—— Steve Wright , BBC Radio 2

We have loved your book - you've been so honest, open, everything that anyone knows you so well 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

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

—— Prima

One of our favourite things is the many hilarious anecdotes he has to share about his good friend Holly Willoughby

—— Hello!

Phillip Schofield has spoken candidly about his coming out process and his current mental health struggles in his autobiography

—— Pink News

Takes readers on the journey Phillip has taken to get to where he is today. Fans will delight at a nostalgic look back at Phillip's life, relish the behind the scenes stories, and feel touched by the emotional honesty in his writing

—— Northern Life Magazine

Dazzling

—— Evening Standard

Full of anecdotes about onscreen mishaps and meeting the famous

—— Daily Mail

The silver-haired overlord of daytime TV . . . Schofe's candour is admirable

—— Evening Standard

In this soul-bearing autobiography, Phillip looks back on his broadcasting career . . . A frank and highly readable life story

—— Sunday Express

O'Connor brings everything to this memoir

—— Financial Times

Incendiary

—— i

Astonishingly good, wise and hilarious

—— Louise Nealon

Candid, open-hearted . . . a lot of self-deprecation, a lot of laughs, and a measure of honesty that would put most of us to shame

—— Anglo-Celt

Genuinely incredible . . . [Rememberings is] suffused with humour and forgiveness

—— Guardian

There's nothing conventional about Sinéad O'Connor and there's little conventional about her memoir either. . . She writes with searing honesty and plenty of wit

—— Independent

Her complicated life makes for riveting reading. From ripping up photographs of the Pope on prime time US television and her mental health struggles to a rollercoaster spiritual quest, she has never been afraid to be fearless

—— iNews

A deliciously decadent tale of sex, tragedy, celebrity, surfboards and tanned skin in 1980s Malibu.

—— The Times

I absolutely loved her book.... It's an absolute blast to read

—— Alice- Azania Jarvis

JACKIE COLLINS, BUT BETTER Sacrilege to say "better", I know, but there we are. Set in the 1980s, Taylor Jenkins Reid's Malibu Rising is wonderfully written, intensely evocative and concerns the model/ surfer children of a rock star. Tons of glamour, tons of sharply observed insights about sibling relationships, plus a massive party. Beach read par excellence. See also her brilliant Daisy Jones & the Six, which is heaven (more rock stars).

—— Anonymous

When we picked up Malibu Rising, the new novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, we could barely put it down

—— That's Life

You'll never want this book to end, it will suck you in and spit you out!

—— Muddy Stilettos
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