he also played a role in the first season of the tv series "24" as secret government agent mark desalvo, opposite former "young guns" star kiefer sutherland. phillips played the recurring role of fbi agent ian edgerton in the television series "numb3rs". edgerton is an fbi tracker and sniper who works as an instructor at quantico fbi academy when he is not working a case in the field. phillips won the second season of the nbc reality series, "i'm a celebrity...get me out of here!", over pro wrestler torrie wilson. phillips currently hosts the weekly series "an officer and a movie" on the military channel. this series features various theatrical world war ii dramas, with discussion breaks during the film in which phillips interviews members of the us military and intelligence communities about details of the events that inspired each film.