Caroline Phillips

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Caroline Phillips
“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”
Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of DMG Media; Former editor of the Daily Mail

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Get lean, lithe and puma-fit at Target Fitness Retreats

Our Man on the Ground | 6 Apr 2017

Tabata? Burpees? Pad work? Double Dutch to me. But, hell, I’m about to find out what these are. I’m on a Target Human Performance fitness holiday – if doing five hours’ exercise a day can be called a ‘holiday’. I’m here for a five-day ‘get fit fast’ retreat. A so-called health, fitness and wellness break.

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My first attempt at stand-up comedy … aged 64

The Times | 15 Jan 2024

I am onstage in front of 65 strangers who think I’m a stand-up comedian. I’ve never done anything like this before. Why have I agreed…

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Soukya: the Bangalore health retreat drawing a starry clientele — and interest from the NHS

FT Weekend | 29 Apr 2018

I am lying on a wooden massage bed as two women rub my naked body with hot pouches of cooked rice, milk and medicinal herbs.…

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Sun, sea, sand and a spell of humanitarian intervention

The Sunday Times | 7 Sep 2014

As we stepped off the Dodekanisos Pride ferry onto the Greek island of Symi for our late August beach holiday, our thoughts were on sunbathing…

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About

Caroline Phillips

Caroline Phillips is an award-winning journalist who played a key editorial role in launching the London Evening Standard’s much-imitated supplement, E.S, and wrote The Caroline Phillips Interview for the Evening Standard for many years – interviewing pop superstars to cabinet ministers and jailbirds. She worked next at the Express, and one of her stories made global headlines. Since going freelance in 1998, Caroline has continued to contribute to publications from the Financial Times to the Sunday Times and Harper’s Bazaar to Tatler.

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Well, it felt brave writing it; brave publishing i Well, it felt brave writing it; brave publishing it; and now super-brave posting it….from today’s YOU mag…and thank you for all the supportive comments sent privately that helped me take the final plunge to post it. #mail #mailonsunday #youmagazine #hoffmanprocess #hoffmanprocessuk
The Brutalist is an astonishing, monumental, maste The Brutalist is an astonishing, monumental, masterful film that’s up there with the Godfather and Citizen Kane.   Loosely based on a true story, László Toth, a fictional modernist architect and Hungarian Jew, survives the Holocaust and emigrates to America to rebuild his life and career under the patronage of a super-wealthy man.   Adrien Brody (as Toth) gives a sublime performance (as good as his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Władysław Szpilmanin in Polanski’s The Pianist).   The Brutalist is directed and produced by Brady Corbet —from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold. Shot on 70 mm (to give it, Corbet says, its 50s feel), it’s technically brilliant and panoramic. It also has a haunting score.   At 3 ½ hours long (including a 15- minute intermission), it’s extraordinary that this epic was made in 33 days (and on a budget of less than $10 million).   In the Q&A afterwards, Brady pitched it (in answers that he joked were almost as long as the film!) as a movie about architecture. But it’s also about the immigrant experience, capitalism and the corrupting influence of extreme wealth, antisemitism and xenophobia, imagination, human dignity, artistic integrity and the American dream.  I would have gladly sat glued to it for another hour. It’s being released in the UK 24 January 2025. The Oscars are calling….   #thebrutalist #universalpictures #adrienbrody #bradycorbet
My daughter @ellazbj took her borrowed dog out for My daughter @ellazbj took her borrowed dog out for a walk in Sydney. The dog lay down and…..(you finish the story, please). #dog #retriever #sydney
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Caroline is currently working on her first book, and has broadcast frequently on television and radio – from studio-based talk shows, radio discussion panels to news programme appearances.

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Critics & Letters

“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”
Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of DMG Media; Former editor of the Daily Mail
“I greatly enjoyed your Lorne Thyssen piece – as well as being tickled to read that he propositioned you. Does this mean his therapy for…”
John Preston, Journalist and best selling author
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