Sally Phillips has been announced as a patron of The Josephine and Jack Project, a Newcastle based charity supporting adults and young people with learning disabilities to 'explore matters of relationships and sex education'.

The Smack The Pony star, whose son Olly has Down's Syndrome, said 'The more I learned about Josephine and Jack and related it to my son's experiences and my hopes and dreams for him, I became all the more sure that the work of The Josephine and Jack Project was something I wanted to support'.