Early Life
Born Phillip Swan in Newport on the Isle of Wight, he took his stepfather Alexander's surname, Jupitus, when he was 16. The shortening of his first name to 'Phill' arose due to his mother's reminders that the name 'Phillip' is spelt with two Ls, something he carried over to the shorter form.
'Jupitus' is an anglicised version of the original surname Šeputis (pronounced ) ascribed to the Jupitus family by an immigration officer when they migrated to Britain from Lithuania in 1917.
Phill attended Northbury Infants and Junior schools in Barking and later attended Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich as a boarder on a scholarship.
He took eight O-Level exams, passing four, and enrolled at a Technical College briefly to study at A-Level.
After dropping out of college, he became a civil servant for the then Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) (now the Department for Work and Pensions) working in a Jobcentre.
He now lives with his wife and daughters in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
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