Hazel Phillips

In 2020, Phillips spoke to the Studio 10 program about gender pay gaps in the entertainment industry, stating female television hosts were paid less than their male counterparts, and that in the 1960s she had been paid less than one-tenth of the salaries paid to stars like Graham Kennedy and Don Lane.

Phillips in 2011, performed in the fifth series of Australia's Got Talent. and performed the Frank Sinatra song "You Make Me Feel So Young" and the Marilyn Monroe, song Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. Phillips reached the semi-finals in the over-65 category, but was eliminated in the public vote. She still performs with her son's quartet as a vocalist.

Phillips is an activist for alternative medicine, she suffered a mild heart attack in 2009, and underwent a hip replacement

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She also featured in a Marilyn Monroe Cabaret Show in 2002

Phillips has appeared in numerous films including the Australian film The Set in 1970 and more recently in 2021, the Netflix film Love and Monsters, and scheduled in a Paramount film starring Sam Neill, and a TV commercial for Ford motors

Phillips started her career at radio 2UE, having won a talent contest for Miss television in Australia. Active in television since its inception in Australia, she became one of the first personalities on Network Seven. in 1963, Phillips made her break into show business with a role on the talk show Beauty and the Beast opposite beast Eric Baume. She also began to appear on the satirical The Mavis Bramston Show, which she became a regular on after being told to choose between Bramston and Beauty and the Beast.

Theatre roles starting from 1956 include The Circle, Henry V, Pride and Prejudice and The Merry Wives of Windsor

Phillips was born as Hazel Lovegrove in Battersea (now Wandsworth), County of London (now south London). She has been singing and dancing since the age of three and in 1948 wonthe beauty pagent of Miss South England. At the age of 20, she became engaged to her husband Bill,a carpenter turned TV director and they emigrated to Australia as "Ten Pound Poms" in 1950–51, marrying shortly afterwards and having two children, Mark (born 1953) and Scott (born 1955). In 1961, at a time there where then no seat belts in vehicles the family was involved in a serious car accident, and Phillips sustaining severe injuries to her chin. Her husband left them some time afterwards, with Phillips suggesting that the surgeries on her chin, her husband s affair with a dancer and an ectopic pregnancy contributed to the break-up of their marriage.

Hazel Julia Phillips (née Lovegrove) OAM (born 17 November 1929) is a British-Australian singer, actress and television talk show personality with a notable career in Australia.