Fiona Phillips
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Back from her stint as entertainment and LA correspondent, Fiona Phillips anchors GMTV on weekday mornings.
Summary:
For over two years Fiona provided daily/weekly reports and covered a number of big news stories including the Michael Jackson alleged child molestation case, the LA earthquake, the OJ Simpson trial and the Oscars. She also interviewed some of the screen’s hottest names from Leonardo di Caprio and Clint Eastwood, to Brad Pitt and Mel Gibson. At the end of 2008, Fiona left GMTV after 15 years to spend more time with her family. In l996 Fiona was nominated for the RTS Interview of the Year Award. Fiona has presented the celebrity lifestyle show, ‘OK! TV’, plus Carlton’s entertainment guide ‘Good Stuff’, LWT`s Friday evening entertainment show ‘Start the Weekend’, ITV’s ‘Sunday Night’ and the ‘Rich and Famous’ series.
Biography:
On any given day, Fiona may interview the Prime Minister, a pop star or a grieving family in the midst of a news tragedy. Her compassion, humour and journalistic skills have made her one of Britain’s most popular presenters. At the end of 2003, Fiona signed a new 3 year deal with GMTV, taking her into ten years with the breakfast station and the longest-running female to sit on the famous sofa!
A mother of two young boys, Fiona has also become one of the main faces of Discovery Health with two childcare series, Complementary Kids about alternative health treatments for children and Toddler Taming.
An experienced and witty writer, Fiona also has her own popular weekly opinion column in Saturday’s Mirror. Before that, she also had a weekly column Express newspaper’s “S” magazine called “The Diary of a Thoroughly Modern Mother”.
Fiona has also been featured on the front covers of most national women’s magazines in Britain. Indeed, media research shows that she is one of the most popular female presenters in the country and an edition of Woman’s Own last year with Fiona on the cover was the magazine’s best sellers of the year.
In 2002, she launched a new health and fitness video “The Bodyshape Challenge” which has specific exercise plans for real women with different shapes. Fiona felt strongly as a mother of two young children that she and other women wanted straightforward exercise plans which work with a busy lifestyle and her video reflects this.
At the end of 2001, Fiona was the main presenter of the ITV prime time show “Rich & Famous”. She also guest presented ITV 2’s “Soap Fever” and BBC’s “Liquid News” and in 2000 she hosted the hit series “OK! TV”.
Fiona was born in Canterbury and educated in Southampton. She trained in the medical profession as a radiographer before graduating from the University of Birmingham with a BA (Hons) in English. She then gained a Post Graduate Certificate in Radio Journalism. She started her broadcasting career working for local radio stations before moving on to present BBC South and East’s “Weekend Programme” and later she joined Sky News as a news reporter before being promoted to Entertainment Editor.
She joined GMTV in 1993 and was quickly promoted to become the station’s LA correspondent, providing reports, features and celebrity interviews from Hollywood, including the Michael Jackson alleged child molestation case, LA earthquake, OJ Simpson trial and interviews with some of the screen’s hottest names including Cameron Diaz, Clint Eastwood, Leonardo Di Caprio and Mel Gibson. In 1996 Fiona was nominated for the RTS Interview of the Year Award for a headline-grabbing interview with Liam Gallagher on the doorstep of his home.
Fiona is married to Martin Frizell, previously GMTV’s Chief Correspondent and now Editor. They have two sons, Nathanial and Mackenzie.
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