Spotted by the British television director David Mallet, he invited Phillips to make Hot Gossip a regular feature of the 1978 The Kenny Everett Video Show, which he directed for Thames Television on ITV.
In 1978, during their initial impact period on The Kenny Everett Video Show, Hot Gossip recorded "Making love on a phone" and with Sarah Brightman on lead vocals recorded "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" [REF].