Abi Phillips
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Abi Phillips is an English actress, singer and songwriter. She is best known for playing Liberty Savage
Liberty Savage
Liberty Savage is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by actress and singer-songwriter Abi Phillips. She made her first on-screen appearance on 10 December 2010. Phillips was approached by Hollyoaks producers after she submitted one of her songs...

 in Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 British soap-opera Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

.

Career

Abi was born in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...

 but currently has her own apartment in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

 due to work commitments.

Abi wrote a song called 'Missing You' and sent it to the production team of British soap opera Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

. The song was featured in the show for long-term cast member Carley Stenson
Carley Stenson
Carley Anne Stenson is an English actress and singer, best known for playing Steph Cunningham in the Channel 4 series Hollyoaks. She also appeared as a performer in Abbamania, and is a member of the all-female band Diamond...

's final scenes. The song was released on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 on 3 December 2010. The programme offered Phillips a chance to audition for a role in the show. She was successful and began portraying character Liberty Savage
Liberty Savage
Liberty Savage is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by actress and singer-songwriter Abi Phillips. She made her first on-screen appearance on 10 December 2010. Phillips was approached by Hollyoaks producers after she submitted one of her songs...



In April 2011, Abi revealed on her official website that she is currently writing and working on her debut album and single 'Summer Sunshine' which has been given an official release of July 31st. The single features popular rapper Fugative
Fugative
Fugative is a rapper and record producer from Essex, England. He worked with Kirk Burrowes for a week in April 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia the former manager of Mary J. Blige and co-founder of Bad Boy Records after Burrowes was contacted by Byart's mother Gloria who previously managed Marvin Gaye...

. The song's music video was uploaded onto Youtube
YouTube
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 on June 21st 2011.

In May 2011, Abi offered a free sample of a song she recorded called 'Somebody Without You'. Abi is also working on new song 'I Ran Over Your Baby And Kept Driving'. The song was promoted on the Hollyoaks website as a freebie for Hollyoaks fans and talks of a new music video, featuring upcoming London rap artist Dogtorturer, is in the works.

In August 2011 Abi climbed Mt Snowdon for the checkemlads.com charity which helps young men going through testicular cancer

Music

On July 31st 2011, Phillips performed her debut single 'Summer Sunshine' at the T4 annual event T4 on the Beach 2011 in which she performed on the sessions stage. The scenes of Phillips' performance are due to air on Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

 12th July 2011. Abi also announced to fans on her Twitter
Twitter
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 account that herself, Jorgie Porter
Jorgie Porter
Jorgina Alexandra "Jorgie" Porter, is an English actress, notable for her role as Theresa McQueen in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks...

 (Theresa McQueen
Theresa McQueen
Theresa McQueen is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Jorgie Porter. She made her first appearance in November 2008. The character was introduced as an extension of already established McQueen family...

) and Craig Vye
Craig Vye
Craig Vye , is an English actor, best known for his role as Ethan Scott in teen soap opera Hollyoaks.-Early life:Craig was born in Hertfordshire, England. Vye trained at RADA, graduating in 2005...

 (Ethan Scott) were set to film scenes at the event.

That year, the Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...

named Phillips one of "five talented young actresses destined to become tomorrow’s superstars".

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