I don’t have time to go on social media, and ignorance is bliss
giving me a rendition in the hotel room, and confessingcon to having kept it going between takes. “There was on one time when I wa was in a supermar supermarket with Charlott Charlotte and Millie, and I said, ‘Girl ‘Girls shall we all be American?’ So we were wandering around th the aisles and we saw Beth getting something. I said, ‘Now!’, and togeth together they
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shouted, ‘Mom, mom!’ It was very funny.”
Is this a sign they could follow in his performing footsteps?
“Hopefully not!” Philip responds, head in hands. “No, I don’t know. It’s early doors and I don’t know what they’ll want to do. It’s entirely up to them really, they just need to get their education first and they’ll be their own people.
“As long as they’re strong, independent and have a voice.”
He beams as he recalls the girls visiting him in the US for a month during school holidays, while he out there filming.
Does he find it hard being PHILIP GLENISTER was born in Harrow, North-west London, and is the son of TV director John Glenister (whose hits include Rumpole of the Bailey and A Touch of Frost). He is also the younger brother of Hustle star Robert Glenister.
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HE STUDIED with TV chat show host Graham Norton and a Knight’s Tale actor Rufus Sewell at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. He went on to share a flat with Jamie Glover (who played Andrew Treneman in Waterloo Road).
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PHILIP has two daughters with actress Beth Goddard, whom he married in 2006. However, he insists that he would ban marriage for anyone until they’re 30, saying: “That’s what your twenties are for – to be as hedonistic and crazy as possible.”