Jeffrey Travis Andrew Phillips (born November 1948) is an Australian TV show host, personality, musical theatre actor and pop singer active from 1966 to the early 1990s.
Jeffrey Travis Andrew Phillips was born in November 1948 and grew up on the Canning River, Western Australia.
[4] For secondary education he started at St. Francis Xavier High School with his final two years at Trinity College, where he played football and also performed at annual concerts.
[4] In 1964 he was spotted by a TVW–7 representative at a Trinity College concert and invited to appear on nightly variety show, In Perth Tonight.
[4][6][12] The Australian Women's Weekly's Sally White described Phillips as having "charm" and "set for a long and highly tuneful career" with his "elfin chin and clean cut appeal".
[12] In 1970 he released a video recording of Sound Like Us with tracks by himself and by his guests, fellow pop singers, Ronnie Burns and Bev Harrell.
Then from July 1985 to October 1987 he appeared in the Australian stage production of Cats in the role of Rum Tum Tugger in both the Sydney run alongside Debra Byrne, Marina Prior and Anita Louise Combe; and then the Melbourne season; he also performed on the original Australian cast album.
In 1991 he hosted the Ten Network TV talent show, Star Search, where finalists were determined by phone-in votes from viewers.
[21] In March 1992 he had a guest role on soap opera Chances; he described his work as having "some steamy scenes and it will attract a bit of interest".