![]() She is also OK with being single after a succession of relationships over the years with various actors and performers, including Alan Davies, with whom she appeared in Jonathan Creek, and Keith Allen, her co-star in Martin Chuzzlewit. Anyway, it wasn’t actually a choice like, ‘I’m never having children.’ It just didn’t happen and I’m OK with that.” “I mean, there are moments as a woman when you think, ‘Oh, I quite fancy being a mum today,’ and then by the end of it you think, ‘Thank God I’m not!’ I would have been one of those obsessive, full-on, 24-hour mums, but I didn’t want that because I love my career. So when asked if she’d like to play the role of a mother in real life, she is absolutely adamant. ![]() ![]() She is also a proud auntie to Nadia’s daughters Maddy, 11, and Kiki, seven, and Dina’s sons Zak, 26, and Finlay, 16. Julia is more than happy to live there alone, when she’s not spending time with her family (older sisters Dina and TV presenter Nadia her Jordanian actor father Nadim and English mother Roberta). The good thing is that I feel so safe now – this building is just one of those places that has a really good atmosphere.” “I don’t know if it will end up in a drawer somewhere, but it’s helped to provide an outlet while I’ve been stuck doing my house. “I can’t stop writing – I’m like a woman possessed,” she says. She hasn’t appeared on television since last year when she played a murderess in Agatha Christie’s Marple, but meanwhile she has discovered another creative string to her bow, writing a children’s book about parallel worlds. Home now for Julia is a Grade I-listed townhouse in Bath, which she has been restoring for the past 16 months – something that has taken up most of her time. It’s only when I moved from there and relaxed that I suddenly realised the amount of tension I’d been living under.” I was like one of those girls in horror films who walk down the corridor and open doors they are not supposed to open. “I got so used to it all – hearing stuff being thrown down the staircase, lights shaking and people jumping on the ceiling. Or I’d pick up the phone to talk to somebody on one of those walkabout land lines and it would suddenly bleep that it was busy, which meant that someone upstairs had picked it up – and I lived on my own. “Latches on doors used to be bent backwards in the morning, to the point where I used to keep a pair of pliers handy to bend them back because I didn’t want the cat to get out. ![]() “There were all sorts of strange experiences,” she reveals. For five years she lived alone in a woodland cottage in Somerset, where she became almost used to paranormal activity. ![]()
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