Phillip Schofield has been pictured in public for the first time in weeks after travelling to Cornwall to ride out his affair fallout.
The former This Morning presenter, 61, appeared glum as he clutched onto a vape and had his bag slung over one shoulder as he prepared to celebrate his mum's birthday.
Phillip stepped down from all hosting duties with ITV and was dropped by his agent after he admitted to an affair with a younger ITV employee.
Phillip later spoke about the affair and the impact the fallout has had on him in a candid TV interview with the BBC.
Since then, he has stayed away from the spotlight but has now broken cover during an outing.
Phillip was spotted out in Cornwall, where he was said to be celebrating his mother Pat's 87th birthday, as he does every year.
He sported a blue T-shirt and off-white shorts, which he matched with a pair of blue and white Converse trainers.
The former TV host looked forlorn as he slung a black leather backpack over his shoulder while stood in front of an open boot of a black car.
Phillip clutched on to his phone, car keys and a vape in one hand as he sported a light tan and a haircut.
Despite his stoney-faced expression, body-language expert Judi James has revealed Phillip looked "relaxed" in the photographs.
Judi told the Mirror: "There are deep furrows etched on his forehead and deep grooves down either side of his mouth.
"His face looks jowly from side view but that’s possibly a result of the weight he said he had dropped since the drama started.
"But otherwise Schofield looks tanned and relatively relaxed here, like a man who has taken what must be his first break from work in several decades."
Judi added how he may appear stern but has a "good humoured response" to the woman he was photographed standing next to.
She explained: "We’re so used to seeing the signature Schofield perky smile on our screens that an unsmiling Philip does look dramatically dour but, despite the lip clamp, his one raised brow and the micro-curve of his lips suggests a good humoured response to the person he is with.
"There’s no sign of tension in his shoulders or his legs but, in a nod to his previously busy professional lifestyle, he seems to be clutching his phone, keys and what looks like the ever-present vape we saw him using in his interviews, all in the one hand."
It comes after Phil gave a series of bombshell interviews, where he discussed the impact the backlash to his affair admission had on his mental health.
The presenter said: "I do not know a time I will be able to walk out of the door.
"I don’t have any spirit. My friends tell me, 'It will get better'. It won’t. Not now. Not this one."
Phillip admitted he has never suffered any abuse in public before, but now fears he will be shouted at or spat on.
