Actress Sally Phillips recently revealed her son, who has Down syndrome, was refused entry to a trampoline park.

The 53-year-old comedian spoke of her experience and said her child Olly was not welcome to perform at London’s Oxygen Acton.

talking bbc breakfast On Friday, March 29, Phillips revealed that her son was not allowed into the company because people with the syndrome need to produce a letter from their GP.

phillips, best known for creating and starring in sketch shows hit pony Explaining: “Oli was used to being able to do what his contemporaries were doing… so we went with his brother and his brother’s friends, we’d been there hundreds of times before, and the table The lady on top said, “Oh, I’m sorry, can I say something? “And called the manager… I’m very, very upset that Ollie was stopped.”

She further added that “they are weeding out people with visible disabilities” and “so if you have an invisible disability, you don’t need to carry a doctor’s note”.

As a patron of the Down Syndrome Association, she said it was crucial to pay for a doctor’s letter in order to obtain the required documentation.

This means “that administrative burden for special needs parents just to be part of a community…to do a normal thing and take the normal risks that everyone can take is unbearable,” she explain.

Phillips said in a statement that this was an “unfair” approach because “making changes would not be fair to special needs parents but would help the company.”