Ekstedt at The Yard<\/a>. Everything cooked over an open fire, in iron bowls, presented on beds of moss and nasturtium \u2014 wild and wonderful.<\/p>\nWhat would you do if you were Mayor for the day?<\/p>\n
One child in every 20 is homeless in London so stop building largely unaffordable, poor-quality tower blocks and build the housing we need. <\/p>\n
Who is the most iconic Londoner?<\/p>\n
Well, listen, I know the correct answer is David Attenborough but I\u2019ve got to put a shout in for some of the iconic women of London \u2014 Mary Shelley and her mum, Emma Thompson and Tilda Swinton, and both Queen Elizabeths. I could go on\u2026 <\/p>\n
Where do you go to have fun?<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the best thing a cabbie has said to you?<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved you in Ocean\u2019s 8.\u201d<\/p>\n
Have you ever had a run-in with a London police officer?<\/p>\n
My eldest son, Olly, has Down syndrome and autism and went through a period of going walkabout so often I had PC Christmas (really his name) on speed dial. You\u2019re vulnerable if you have a learning disability \u2014 Olly\u2019s been threatened online and in person and the police have been awesome.<\/p>\n
Where do you let your hair down?<\/p>\n
Start the evening with an Elf Lyons show. Her latest is Woman on the Edge and it\u2019s guaranteed to inspire an evening of escapades.<\/p>\n
Who do you call to have fun?<\/p>\n
The zoologist and author Lucy Cooke can sniff out a good night from the other side of the world and turn what was just supposed to be a trip to the pub into an anecdote you\u2019ll be telling years after.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your biggest extravagance?<\/p>\n
I spend quite a lot on my hair because left untended I look like Catweazle.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your London secret?<\/p>\n
The Brentford Penguins. Most of the Premier League clubs have their own Down syndrome teams and so do Brentford. They play every Sunday in Gunnersbury Park. There are more than 50 members. The youngest player is two and the oldest is 28. <\/p>\n
What are you up to at the moment for work?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m in a new play, Relics, a dark-ish comedy by Ben Ockrent, at the Lyric Hammersmith. It should be a great night out with a moral dilemma at its heart and lots of laughs. <\/p>\n
Who is your professional hero?<\/p>\n
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who I worked with on Veep. She didn\u2019t settle for just \u201cgood\u201d but was always reaching for something really hilarious. <\/p>\n
Moomin mugs. I get one every time I go to Sweden.<\/p>\n
Relics is at Lyric Hammersmith until July 18; lyric.co.uk<\/a>. Sally Phillips is also in The Hairdresser Mysteries, coming soon to BBC One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wherever my boys (and dogs) are. I\u2019m a bit rootless and can nest anywhere really so currently home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,143167,217020,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-my-london","tag-sally-phillips","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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