Julia Roberts (QVC presenter)

Julia Roberts (born 10th June 1956) is a British television home shopping host on the shopping channel QVC.

Biography

Roberts started her career as a cabaret dancer, supporting Cannon and Ball on a summer season in Guernsey, and then followed their act on to television. She supplemented this work with various supporting cast roles on TV including Citizen Smith and Doctor Who in 1979, Christmas pantomimes and dancing on cruise liners; before she took a job in a cabaret show in Hong Kong, dancing and singing.

Roberts returned to the UK with her boyfriend, and appeared in various commercials, including the Woolwich Building Society and Head & Shoulders shampoo. She was approached in 1980 by a group called The Main Event to sing in their Eurovision Song contest entry I'm Gonna Do My Best To Please You - which came last. The ensemble included Cheryl Baker, who won the following year with Bucks Fizz.

Wishing to undertake more television, she appeared as a hostess on The Price is Right with Leslie Crowther. After two series she had her first child Daniel, and then worked on the 'Hit Squad' on Beadle's About, before having her second child, daughter Sophie.

After the birth of her second child, Roberts and her husband Chris were living in South London, when Croydon Cable started cabling the local streets. Looking to get into television......
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