![]() ![]() In 1993 she successfully auditioned to become a Presenter for QVC, an American shopping channel launching in the UK, and appeared in the opening sequences alongside co-presenter, Jon Briggs. Through her association with the club, she also produced and presented several features for Sky Sports, one of which she claims is her favourite piece of work. One of the weekly features she presented was called Palace Chatback and it led to her passion for Crystal Palace Football Club, a team she still supports today. After a baptism of fire which saw her deliver a live ten minute presentation on the hour, every hour for Vauxhall motors for the duration of the 1989 Motor Show at Olympia, she was approached and offered a job on a ‘magazine’ style show for her local television channel in Croydon. This was followed by joining the infamous ‘hit squad’ on Beadles About before taking a short career break to have her two children.ĭuring this enforced break in her career Julia decided she would like to try her hand at presenting. Having featured in various TV commercials, notably the Woolwich Building Society and Head & Shoulders shampoo, and small television acting roles in Citizen Smith and Doctor Who, she became a hostess on the first and second UK series of the American game show, The Price is Right. In 1980, she appeared in The Song for Europe as part of a band called The Main Event performing alongside Cheryl Baker, who went on to join Buck’s Fizz the following year while Julia signed a record deal with her band, Jools and the Fools, before moving into television. Deciding to leave the UK and see a bit more of the world, she danced on cruise ships in the Caribbean, in a theatre show in Barcelona, and performed as a singer/dancer in a cabaret show in Hong Kong. The contract was for a summer show in Guernsey and was followed by pantomimes in Leeds, Croydon and Watford as well as further summer seasons in the Channel Islands. Hours of physiotherapy exercises, swimming and dancing lessons, combined with a huge amount of determination from both Julia and her mother proved the doctors wrong in a spectacular way when she signed her first professional dancing contract in 1973. On Christmas Eve 1957 she was released from hospital into her parents’ care with the caution that she would never walk without the aid of a caliper. Julia Roberts is probably best known as the original face of the UK’s most successful shopping channel, QVC, but she enjoyed a rewarding and varied career in the entertainment industry for many years prior to the channel launching in 1993.īorn in Nottingham in 1956, she had a fight on her hands at just fourteen months of age when she contracted the paralytic form of polio, which saw her hospitalised for five months. ![]()
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