Julia M. Smith, Freelance Journalist Profile

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'Trump is trying to erase all the things that Americans love'

5 days 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 week 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 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Julia M. Smith
'I'm self-aware enough to know I would never play Bond'

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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

1 month 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.
Yes, Alice Roberts actually digs her own life

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Julia M. Smith
Pierce Brosnan on rumours of return to Bond, dreams of playing Dumbledore and regaining his Irish accent

1 month ago | independent.ie | Julia M. Smith

Actor (71) has no notion of retiring as he joins stellar cast in new Guy Ritchie crime drama MobLandPierce Brosnan will always be best known for belonging to that tiny, elite club of former James Bonds, but now the online 007 fanbase is buzzing with speculation about him returning to the franchise in a new role – that of spymaster M, most recently incarnated by Ralph Fiennes. “Really?” Brosnan asked, his eyes narrowing when I put that suggestion to him. “That’s nuts.
'Playing M in Bond? That's nuts! But I do want to play Dumbledore'

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

The 007 star on the Harry Potter role he covets and being reunited with Helen Mirren for Guy Ritchie's MobLandPierce Brosnan will always be best known for belonging to that tiny, elite club of former James Bonds, but now the online 007 fanbase is buzzing with speculation about him returning to the franchise in a new role - that of spymaster M, most recently incarnated by Ralph Fiennes. "Really?" Brosnan asks, his eyes as sapphire blue as ever - narrowing, when I put that suggestion to him.
How to survive burnout if you're a high-flyer like me

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