Sally Phillips
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
Leslie Felperin
22, Nov, 2022 @9:00 AM
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
Rich Pelley
20, Aug, 2022 @1:00 PM
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
As told to Rich Pelley
28, Jul, 2022 @1:00 PM
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
Leslie Felperin
06, Jul, 2022 @8:00 AM
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?
Rich Pelley
05, Jul, 2022 @9:38 AM
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
Phil Hoad
22, Jul, 2021 @12:38 PM
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
Ammar Kalia, Hannah Verdier , Ali Catterall and Paul Howlett
10, Apr, 2020 @5:20 AM
Sexy, stupid and still spot on: the timeless genius of Smack the Pony
As Smack the Pony announce their comeback, we look at the beloved sketch show’s best offerings so far … and find they haven’t aged at all
Hannah Jane Parkinson
23, Jan, 2019 @4:36 PM
‘We’re working on the reunion’: Smack the Pony comeback
Two decades after the cult sketch show first aired, its creators discuss its inception, near-death experiences and why they were the Spice Girls of turn-of-the-century comedy
Ellen E Jones
21, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM
NHS to offer safer Down's syndrome test to pregnant women
Non-invasive prenatal test allows screening without risk of miscarriage but critics fear it could lead to an increase in terminations
Sarah Boseley Health editor
28, Oct, 2016 @11:01 PM
Clive James: ‘I am continually reminded of what a misery guts I have been’
When I was young, I rarely demonstrated any subtlety at all
Clive James
22, Oct, 2016 @7:00 AM
Down’s syndrome and the threat of eugenics | Letters
Letters: Sally Phillips’ programme offers a timely reminder of the dangers of embarking on a determinist view of society and the risk that selective breeding is acceptable
Letters
09, Oct, 2016 @6:42 PM
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