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Life's What You Make It
- Narrated by: Phillip Schofield
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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Life's What You Make It, the long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved TV personalities.
For a long time, I felt that I couldn't write this book. At first, I didn't think I'd lived enough, then life got busy and filled with distractions. In more recent years, there was always a very painful consideration - I knew where it would eventually have to go.
I have recently decided that the truth is the only thing that can set me free. The truth has taken a long time to make itself clear to me, but now is the right time to share it, all of it.
Television and broadcasting has been a part of my DNA for as long as I can remember. As a young boy I would make model TV sets out of cardboard boxes, while spending long summers at home, barefoot on Cornwall's golden beaches. Landing a job at the ice-cream kiosk, I would enviously look on as my presenting heroes took to the stage of Radio 1's Roadshow, an unforgettable event when it came to town.
In Life's What You Make It I look back with nostalgic delight on my life, from being a young boy endlessly writing letters to the BBC in pursuit of a job in broadcasting, to making it on to the Broom Cupboard, with my infamous sidekick Gordon the Gopher, to being on Going Live and starring as the lead in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. It has taken four decades to get here, but I feel lucky to have called the sets of Talking Telephone Numbers, The Cube, Dancing on Ice and of course, This Morning, home.
I'm going to take you behind the scenes of my television home at ITV, into my career and my dangerously funny relationship with Holly Willoughby. I'm going to introduce you to my loving and remarkable family, and I hope most of all to tell you that life, it seems, is what you make it. Take it from someone who has sat on the very edge and looked over, it's all about the people who love you.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-01-2023
fantastic
I was a young teenager when Phil hit the broom cupboard so I've grown up with him and onto going live. A fantastic life story.
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- Lisa O'Connor
- 10-02-2023
Easy Listening..
Enjoyed listening to this book. Followed Phillip Schofield for many years
Interesting and poignant ..
Easy Listening.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-08-2021
I love this book!!
This was an awesome listen! What a great story , written from the heart and read so well.
Thanks for writing it!!!
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- michele peverill
- 10-11-2020
a brilliant read
and absolutely well told autographs well done phil and thank you ..I was entertained from start to finish
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- Gary O'Toole
- 27-12-2020
99% there
I loved 99% of this book, but the BIG questions: when did he realise he was gay, when did he have his first same sex encounter, just some of the details, from this part of his life are missing. All other aspects are there, so this is a choice he’s obviously made, but it’s a frustrating one because you’ve already become invested in the rest of his life.
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