Sally Phillips ‘so upset’ after son with Down’s syndrome rejected by trampoline park
Actor says onus should not be on parents to prove their children can take part in normal activities
November 2022
The Fence review – rough justice on the meanish streets of 1980s Bristol
Likable debut feature casts Sally Phillips as the mother of two tearaways, one of whom turns crimefighter when his motorbike is pinched
August 2022
This much I know
Sally Phillips: ‘How would I survive a zombie attack? Get another puppy’
The actor, 51, on swotting at Oxford, running away to clown school and being mistaken for Renée Zellweger
July 2022
The reader interview
Sally Phillips: ‘I gave myself a headache doing fake laughter on Alan Partridge’
With How to Please a Woman now showing, the actor and writer answers your questions on clown school, pouring sheep’s blood over her head and the worst sex scene of all time
How to Please a Woman review – Sally Phillips dishes out sex-positive domestic gods
Phillips charms in this Australian-set comedy about a businesswoman who runs a service that offers male sex workers who also scrub floors
The reader interview
Post your questions for Sally Phillips
Whether palling up with Bridget Jones, undermining Alan Partridge or co-founding Smack the Pony, the comic actor has been making audiences laugh for three decades. What would you like to ask her?
July 2021
Off the Rails review – Blondie-powered interrailing comedy is a feelgood trainwreck
Kelly Preston’s last performance is a formulaic film about three fiftysomething pals talk menopause and midlife crises on a Euro rail trip
April 2020
TV tonight
TV tonight: Joe Lycett, comic and consumer champ, is back on the case
Find out why the comedian changed his name and follow his consumer crusade. Plus Graham Norton’s chat show is back in a fun lockdown format
January 2019
Sexy, stupid and still spot on: the timeless genius of Smack the Pony
‘We’re working on the reunion’: why comedy needs the Smack the Pony comeback
October 2016
NHS to offer safer Down's syndrome test to pregnant women
Reports of my death
Clive James: ‘I am continually reminded of what a misery guts I have been’
Down’s syndrome and the threat of eugenics
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Westworld; A World Without Down’s Syndrome; The Apprentice; Real Time With Bill Maher
Sorry, Sally Phillips, but a woman should be able to know if her unborn baby has Down’s syndrome
Hadley Freeman
TV review
A World Without Down’s Syndrome? review – straight from the heart, and that’s the problem
Sally Phillips’s film on Down’s is ‘unhelpful’ for families, warns antenatal specialist
Sally Phillips: Do we really want a world without Down’s syndrome?
March 2016
Second thoughts
Why I’m cheering from the sidelines for care workers
Sally Phillips
My son Ollie has Down’s syndrome so I know just how vital his care workers are to our family. But they are not valued as they should be
January 2016
David Hepworth on radio
This week’s best new radio: Talking To Strangers
Sally Philips and Lily Bevan’s monologue format creates radio which will make you laugh your socks off
