Hazel Julia Phillips was born on 17 November 1929 and is a British singer, actress and television talk show personality with a notable career in Australia.
14 Facts About Hazel Phillips
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Hazel Phillips has the apparent distinction of playing the world's first lesbian character on TV, the character Marie Crowther on the serial Number 96.
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Hazel 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.
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Hazel Phillips is often depicted as Australia's answer to Betty White in terms of career success and longevity.
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Hazel Phillips has been singing and dancing since the age of three and in 1948 won the beauty pageant Miss South England.
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In 1961, at a time there were no seat belts in vehicles, the family was involved in a serious car accident, and Hazel Phillips sustained severe injuries to her chin.
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Hazel Phillips's marriage broke up some time afterwards, with Phillips suggesting that the surgeries on her chin, her husband's infidelity and an ectopic pregnancy contributed to the break-up.
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Hazel Phillips started her career at radio 2UE, having won a talent contest for Miss Television in Australia.
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Hazel Phillips began to appear on the satirical The Mavis Bramston Show, where she became a regular after having to choose between Bramston and Beauty and the Beast.
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Hazel Phillips was the second female star to win that honour after entertainer Lorrae Desmond, who won in 1962.
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Hazel Phillips featured in a Marilyn Monroe Cabaret Show in 2002.
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In 2020, Hazel 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.
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Hazel Phillips is an activist for alternative medicine, she suffered a mild heart attack in 2009, and underwent a hip replacement.
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Hazel Phillips reached the semi-finals in the over-65 category, but was eliminated in the public vote.