Lily Collins pays sweet tribute to dad Phil on his 74th birthday

Lily Collins has paid an affectional tribute to her dada Phil Collins arsenic the legendary instrumentalist marked his 74th day amid important wellness challenges.

The actress, 35, who antecedently admitted she had a strained narration with her begetter increasing up, shared the connection alongside photographs connected Instagram to observe the occasion.

One representation showed the brace wrong the Duke of York’s Theatre during her caller tally successful the West End play Barcelona, which concluded connected January 11.

The histrion wore a sparkling metallic and golden jumpsuit, portion the erstwhile Genesis drummer opted for a achromatic zip-up fleece and achromatic trousers.

Another drawback showed the brace astatine the musician's Hollywood Walk of Fame induction ceremonial successful 1999, erstwhile the Emily successful Paris prima was conscionable 10 years old. The pic captured the brace hugging and smiling proudly.

In her caption, she wrote: “From a westbound seashore prima to the West End signifier and everyplace successful betwixt — I’m truthful grateful to beryllium by your broadside and for the support, experiences, and emotion we person and volition proceed to share. The older I get, the greater I admit each the little, peculiar moments spent together.”

She concluded: “Happy day Dad. I couldn’t emotion you much oregon beryllium much thankful to observe you contiguous and each day. Truly. To the satellite and backmost again…”

The prima besides shared a video taken astatine Hotel Eden successful Rome, wherever she proudly noted that her autograph present appears alongside her father’s connected the hotel’s walls.

Smiling astatine the camera, she remarked: “Like father, similar daughter. So arrogant to stock abstraction with you. Happy birthday, Dad.”

The Against The Odds musician, has retired from performing unrecorded aft struggling with nervus harm and spinal problems that person affected his quality to play the drums.

Footage from the documentary captured the In the Air Tonight vocalist making an affectional instrumentality to his drum kit, assisted by his lad Nic, who stepped successful arsenic Genesis’s drummer during their farewell tours.

Holding drumsticks for the archetypal clip successful years, Phil Collins admitted: “It conscionable feels truthful unusual to clasp a pair. If I aftermath up 1 time and I tin clasp a brace of drumsticks, past I volition person a ace astatine it. I conscionable consciousness similar I’ve utilized up my aerial miles.”

The drummer's wellness struggles day backmost to 2009 erstwhile helium mislaid the feeling successful his fingers pursuing country and could lone play drums if the sticks were taped to his hands.

Speaking to the Daily Mail that year, helium said: “After playing drums for 50 years, I’ve had to stop. My vertebrae person been crushing my spinal cord due to the fact that of the presumption I drum in.”

In his 2016 autobiography, helium revealed that helium had struggled with intoxicant maltreatment pursuing his archetypal retirement. The pursuing year, helium disclosed that helium had benignant 2 diabetes and had received attraction successful a hyperbaric enclosure aft a diabetic abscess connected his ft became infected.

Collins’s past nationalist show was connected March 26, 2022, alongside his Genesis bandmates astatine London’s O2 Arena.