Sally Phillips: 'Carers are so, so important'
It was really touching to go back and see how the characters are 15 years on from the first one, because you wonder whatever did happen to those people!
Comic actor and writer Sally Phillips joins Lorraine to discuss hosting the inaugural Towergate Care Awards on 10 March and, as a mother whose eldest son has Down's Syndrome, her own first-hand experiences of what it takes be a dedicated carer.
The Smack the Pony star discovered her eldest son Ollie, 11, had Down's Syndrome when he was 10 days old.
Sally told Lorraine how much presenting the awards meant to her, "In the age of austerity, we really need carers that go above and beyond. We really need someone who talks to the person and not the condition, who thinks of it as more than a job."
Sally, who plays Shazza in Bridget Jones' Diary and has just finished filming the third installment, insists first and foremost she's a mother, but says that having a son with learning disabilities means she regularly sees the impact that good carers can have.