Phillips was born in Kent and Canterbury hospital in 1961. Her grandparents ran the Duke's Head pub on Church Street in St Paul's, and her parents had got married in St Paul's church. The family lived in St Stephen's Close, off St Stephen's Road and Fiona attended Kingsmead school. The family later moved to Southampton where Phillips completed her schooling at Millbrook Community School. Fiona did Read more...

Phillips started her career in independent radio working for local stations County Sound in Surrey, Hereward Radio and Radio Mercury in Sussex as a reporter.

Phillips made her move from radio to television several years later, joining BBC South East's Weekend Programme as co-presenter. She then took a job as a reporter with Sky News, later moving on to become the station's entertainment's Read more...

Phillips joined GMTV at the beginning of 1993 as entertainment correspondent and was promoted to GMTV/Reuters Television's LA correspondent in December 1993. For over two years Fiona provided daily/weekly reports and covered a number of big news stories including the Michael Jackson alleged child molestation case, the LA earthquake, the OJ Simpson trial and the Oscars. She also interviewed some Read more...