Philip Olivier - Gorgeous Guy, an English Actor, Model and Stage Performer

Philip Olivier

An English actor, model and stage performer best known for playing the role of Tim O'Leary in the soap opera Brookside. Philip spent his early childhood living in South Africa and the USA before returning to Liverpool when he was 7 years old. He attended St Edward’s College, Liverpool. In the evenings he attended a local amateur dramatic school in West Derby, Liverpool. Philip has performed in several audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series by Big Finish Productions as a companion of the Seventh Doctor by the name of Hex. Philip has also appeared as one of the guest regulars in the Channel 4 comedy sketch show Bo Selecta. He is popular with gay audiences, hosting Mr Gay UK in 2005 and appearing on-stage at several Gay Pride events. Philip appeared nude in the December 2008 and the April 2009 editions of gay magazine Attitude.

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Philip appeared on the Ghosthunting with... Paul O'Grady and Friends show, which was broadcast on ITV2 on 6 September 2008, alongside Jennifer Ellison (who had played his character's wife Emily in Brookside), Natasha Hamilton and the show's host Yvette Fielding. In 2008 Philip filmed the movie The Crew, released straight to DVD in early 2009. He played the role of a gangster named Paul the Hom. Philip appeared in a Celebrity edition of Come Dine With Me in February 2009.

He competed alongside Christopher Biggins, Julia Bradbury and Edwina Currie and finished second to Biggins, the eventual winner. During February and March 2009 he competed in "Escape from Takeaway Prison", a section on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, which he won on 21 March 2009. Philip also appeared in an episode of Missing, a BBC One afternoon drama, playing club owner and gangster Mark Stone in March of the same year.