Phil Nail was Gail Platt's love interest and boyfriend between 2005 and 2006. Phil met Gail at the Rosamund Street Medical Centre when he began work there as a reflexologist and Gail immediately took a shine to him. Phil also met Eileen Grimshaw and the two women would compete to win Phil's affections. After wrongly assuming Phil and Eileen had slept together, Gail filed a complaint to the Medical Centre Manager claiming that Phil's relationship with Eileen was unethical since she was his patient. Phil received a discipline over the matter, initially pushing him closer to Eileen. However, when Eileen unwittingly told Phil about Gail's past he was fascinated about her marriage to Richard Hillman.