Julia M. Smith, Freelance Journalist Profile

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JOANNA VANDERHAM on playing Diana Mosley, 'the most hated woman in England' in the hotly anticipated TV drama about the colourful lives of the Mitford sisters | Daily Mail Online

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Julia M. Smith

Actress Joanna Vanderham is describing the early negotiations of her wedding to fiancé Ben Hudson Mclldowie, better known as the singer, songwriter and music producer Mr Hudson. Her future husband’s hits have included the top ten banger Supernova, featuring Kanye West, and he’s worked with artists including Jay-Z, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and John Legend. ‘We’re debating do we have a showbiz wedding or do we have immediate family and friends. Ben’s leaning more towards showbiz.
Bestselling Chocolat author JOANNE HARRIS on the disgusting quip Harvey Weinstein made to her at the Oscars

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Julia M. Smith

Sometime in 2000, the French actress Juliette Binoche travelled to Barnsley, West Yorkshire. She was there to meet Joanne Harris – then a schoolteacher who published novels on the side. The film rights to her third book, Chocolat, had been sold to Hollywood and Binoche had signed on to play the heroine, Vianne. She asked Harris if she could visit her, to chat about the part. ‘Juliette came to stay in our two-bedroom semi in Barnsley,’ recalls Harris.
'I've been in a perpetual midlife crisis since I was 17'

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Julia M. Smith
This spa in the Tuscan hills is perfect for a classy girls' trip

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Julia M. Smith
'Trump is trying to erase all the things that Americans love'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Julia M. Smith

The host of tomorrow's TV Baftas - and the 'very queer' Traitors US - on when campness and conservatism collide"I'm drenched in sweat!" Alan Cumming has burst into our meeting room in Bafta 's Piccadilly headquarters wearing pistachio green trousers and a matching shirt open to the navel.
Shirley Ballas on dating at 64: ‘They have to be fit and tall’

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Julia M. Smith

Shirley Ballas, the three-time world Latin American dancing champion and, for the past eight years, head judge on Strictly Come Dancing, has been single since September and after Christmas applied to join the celebrity dating app Raya. “But they still haven’t accepted me,” she says, laughing.
Friends' divorcing? Here's what that means for your group holiday

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Julia M. Smith
'I'm self-aware enough to know I would never play Bond'

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Julia M. Smith

The powerhouse actor on learning from his father Roy, his love of Sondheim, navigating fame, and who should play the next James BondFortunately, Rory Kinnear seems amused when I read him the less than flattering description of his character Leo in the National Theatre's staging of Here We Are, Stephen Sondheim's final musical. It begins: "60s". Kinnear is 47. "Thank you!" laughs the son of the late actor Roy Kinnear, who shares his father's cheerful, oval face and thinning pate.
I'll never be cancer-free

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Julia M. Smith
Reality TV star OLIVIA ATTWOOD reveals exactly how much work she's had done, how much she spends each month on her looks, and her biggest cosmetic surgery regret | Daily Mail Online

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Julia M. Smith

Olivia Attwood frowns as much as her botoxed brow allows while she calculates how much she spends on looking good. ‘A couple of grand a month? That’s for skincare, vitamins, gym membership, all my aesthetic procedures. It’s mental but that’s the tax I pay for the life I’ve put myself into.’Certainly, Attwood, 33, wouldn’t have had the career she has had without looking very good indeed.