Trevor Phillips was first married in 1981 to Asha Bhownagary. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. "I can't remember what the topic was, but they were having a phone-in. His own family experiences had taught him that none of us can truly know what the duke and duchess experienced when they talk about the toll on their mental health, Mr Phillips said. Sushila Phillips, 36, passed away "peacefully" in her mother's arms. "But we want to get them to think about what's happening. We meet in the glassy offices of the EHRC overlooking the Thames, which are every bit as sleek and polished as Phillips, who always looks as if he has just been dry cleaned. Isn't he asking turkeys to vote for Christmas? Announcing the news on Facebook, Holiday wrote: Dear all my beloved sister Sushi passed away on Sunday morning after a 22-year battle with anorexia. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Trevor Phillips was created on Dec 31, 1953 in London, Britain as Tag Trevor Phillips. Exactly how she would have wanted it. A passer-by spotted the couple sharing a romantic kiss outside Ms Veales flat before they set off in his X-reg Jaguar. For more stories like this,check our news page. [16], In 2006, Livingstone accused Phillips of "pandering to the right" so much that he "would soon join the BNP". 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The radical trio went to Cuba and condemned the Soviet Union as reactionary - though even then, one contemporary recalls, Phillips was a smooth operator who behind the scenes would rather seek "consensus than conflict". Education: Queen's College, Georgetown, Guyana; Imperial College, London (BSc, ARCS), Career: President, National Union of Students, 1978-80; London Weekend Television: researcher, 1980-81; producer, Black on Black, The Making of Britain, 1981-86; reporter, This Week, Thames TV, 1986-87; London Weekend Television: editor, London Programme, 1987-92; head, current affairs, 1992-94; presenter: London Programme, 1987-2000; Crosstalk, 1994-2000; The Material World, 1998-2000. They have two grown-up daughters. He was invited to advise the French government and in September 2007 was awarded the Chevalier de la Lgion d'Honneur. Phillips was initially reported[by whom?] Trevor Phillips's income source is mostly from being a successful Producer. Im a TV producer and Im about to go to work. [citation needed]. (He failed, in part because of his lack of a track record as an activist, in part because he had sent his two daughters to an independent school.) 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Sushila said that she wished that universities would look at the whole of a candidate's background. His CRE was noticeably reticent over concerns among Muslim leaders about the impact of terror laws on Asian communities. This will be a big year for Phillips, and such moments are both comic and probably quite unnerving. He spent his childhood partly in British Guiana, and partly in Wood Green, north London; he attended Wood Green County Grammar School (which became Wood Green Comprehensive in 1967) on White Hart Lane, but took his A-levels at Queen's College in Georgetown, Guyana. He has been a television presenter and executive. The biggest gorilla in the garden? Family (1) Spouse Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary All I would say is: it's not an automatic option. Sushila Phillips, 36, a freelance journalist, died 'peacefully in her. "We're not Ofquote," Phillips retorts. Following the installation of a ConservativeLiberal Democrat coalition government, the limit was in January 2011 allowed to revert to 14 days. She also recently won her school's English prize - achievements that have gained her offers from York and Nottingham universities. Well, he might look at Barack Obama, and consider the comments he has made in the past about the obstacles facing most black candidates in this country, and conclude that his profile and credentials confer a responsibility on him to run for office. About Contribute Trevor Phillips and Asha Aline Francine Bhownagary - Dating, Gossip, News, Photos list. They have two children. The daughter of the anti-racism campaigner and broadcaster Trevor Phillips has died after a 22-year battle with anorexia. Mr Phillips who has recently written about his daughters struggles with the eating disorder was present for Sushilas last hours. Shouldn't these circumstances count as well?" His is the first external appointment since 1928. Four years ago he was accused by Ken Livingstone of going "so far over to the other side that I expect he'll soon be joining the BNP", by declaring multiculturalism a misguided failure, leading us "sleepwalking towards segregation". Mr Phillips, a New Labour supporter, had been heavily tipped to. If Phillips is sometimes misrepresented or maligned, it is probably unsurprising, for he has to negotiate an inherently delicate line. [29] Writing for the Middle East Eye, Peter Oborne said Phillips had employed a double standard to attack social conservatism by comparing British Muslim views against Britain as a whole, rather than against other UK religious groups. ", Presumably, I suggest, this is why phone-in callers think he'll come round and have them locked up. The campaigner wrote that Sushila had received regular treatment at a specialist medical unit when the daily struggle against her demons proves just too exhausting., He added: Though I have thankfully never sunk to the despair described by the duchess, our family has spent more than two decades watching helplessly as my older daughter battled a severe eating disorder.. Who Is Trevor Phillips's Wife? Sushila Phillip died peacefully in her mother's arms aged 36, her sister Holiday confirmed in a Facebook post.. Later in 1999, Phillips ran to be Labour's candidate for Mayor of London. He applied for a job as a researcher at London Weekend Television, where he was interviewed by John Birt. My point is that our business is not to be going round poking our nose into every particular event or case, but to raise the expectations of all of the industries so that what they expect from their own people is greater than they used to be.". He insists he is a friend of business, but business doesn't always believe him. [3] His parents emigrated from then British Guiana in 1950. Actually I've no interest in that. By It was hard to imagine him adopting a similar position a decade earlier had anyone attacked the black community in similar terms. Wouldn't a black mayor of London be the perfect John the Baptist to a black leader in Westminster? The act places new duties on public bodies, enforceable by the CRE, to actively promote racial equality. "But nobody here in this organisation is addicted to rushing around getting into other people's business. 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Members of the House of Lords should also, he proposes, be subjected to fixed terms of 20 years. [55][56][57][58], Phillips married Asha Bhownagary, a Parsi child psychotherapist with Indian ancestry, in 1981 and they had two daughters,[59] one of whom, Sushila, died in April 2021 due to anorexia.[60]. A friend of Blair, Jack Straw and Charles Clarke, he chose Peter Mandelson as best man at his 1981 wedding to Asha Bhownagary, a child psychologist. They have two children. And it's flourishing now not as grand acts of discrimination, or bigotry, that everyone can see in Technicolor, but a much more subtle and difficult set of actions. Last summer, Mr Phillips was a panellist in a show produced by Ms Veales company at the Edinburgh Festival. "[44] He was cleared of contempt of Parliament and the House of Lords recommended that new and clearer guidance about the conduct of witnesses to Select Committees be issued. Phillips was married to Asha Bhownagary for 28 years. Prof Patricia Broadfoot, the pro-vice chancellor of Bristol University, defended the admissions policy that has seen the proportion of private school undergraduates fall from 42 per cent in 1998 to 39 per cent. [11] Following this and other controversies, including his decision to send his children to a private school, Phillips withdrew from the race a few months later and was not on the final shortlist of candidates. It's big and broad. Mr Phillips, 55, was seen hand-in-hand with TV producer Helen Veale who is 16 years younger near her flat in North-West London, just a couple of miles from his marital home in Crouch End. This year the English department rejected 78 per cent of independent school applicants and 85 per cent of state school applicants. He was seen as the preferred choice of Downing Street and the home secretary, David Blunkett, who announced his appointment yesterday. And that's why I'm here. Discussing the Oxford Union's invitation to BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust denier David Irving, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "As a former president of the National Union of Students, I'm ashamed that this has happened. Asked about his generalisations about British Muslims he said "if you do belong to a groupyou identify with a particular set of values, and you stand for it. Married equality chief Trevor Phillips looks happy and relaxed as he strolls in the morning sunshine with the new woman in his life. They are believed to have met through their TV work. It is about behaviour. Though I have no disagreement with greater access, I would have hoped that universities and the Government would have a slightly more sophisticated policy than simply 'blacklisting' independent schools. "I know I'm always on a hiding to nothing when I get technical about equality and discrimination, because people like them to be grand religious phrases." Performance & security by Cloudflare. [35], Phillips's suspension from the Labour Party was lifted in June 2021, though investigations had not concluded. "Yeah, I know, isn't this a frightful thought: Trevor Phillips, class warrior?" Mr Phillips heads his own production company, Pepper Productions, and Ms Veale owns Outline Productions, which specialises in reality TV shows including the Jade Goody documentary Living With Jade, which covered her dying days. Now, Mr Phillips spends most of his time at Ms Veale's 220,000 first-floor flat in Kentish Town and has his own set of keys to the property. [10], As a student at Imperial he became president of its students' union. Phillips's tenure as EHRC chairman (which at his request became a part-time position in 2009) was at times controversial. My wife's family did not speak English as a first language. Born December 31, 1953 Add or change photo on IMDbPro But it is hard to deny his declining popularity among ethnic-minority organisations as he takes over at the new Equalities Commission. "A large number of parents from ethnic minorities, especially Asian families, go into debt to send their children to independent schools because they believe that it will help their children escape the disadvantage that they might otherwise face in the state system. [40], Phillips became head of the Commission for Racial Equality in 2003, and on its abolition in 2006 was appointed full-time chairman of its successor, the EHRC (initially called the Commission for Equality and Human Rights), which had a broader remit of combating discrimination and promoting equality across other grounds (age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment). Last year he announced that we should focus less on the disadvantages facing ethnic minorities, and worry more about "poor whites". I am from a very ordinary background. He's a maker and article writer, known for The London Program (1975), Items We Won't State About Competition That Are Accurate (2015) and What English Muslims THINK (2016). Phillips served as chairman of the Assembly until February 2003, resigning his seat to take up his appointment at the Commission for Racial Equality. A passer-by spotted the couple sharing a romantic kiss outside Ms Veale's flat before they set off in his X-reg Jaguar. She previously studied at North London Collegiate school, another leading independent school. [37][38] He was the cofounder and director of Pepper Productions, an independent television production company, now dormant following the demise of co-founder Charles Armitage. 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