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It hardly seems possible that this time last year we were in Mauritius preparing for our wedding! In some ways the anniversary seems to have come around very quickly, but in others it seems a lifetime ago \u2013 how lucky were we that the wedding wasn\u2019t planned for this August.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll put a few wedding snaps on next week\u2019s blog as I know you enjoyed them last year, but I thought I\u2019d share this photo taken a few days before the wedding after Chris and I had eaten blue macarons! Thank goodness the colour faded, or we would have had big blue grins on all the wedding photos!<\/p>\n

We were planning on having a small get together to mark the first anniversary this coming Thursday, but I\u2019m not sure that is going to work out with all the current restrictions in place \u2013 I guess we\u2019ll have to wait and see if anything changes between now and then.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

I\u2019m sort of marking the occasion by resuming my Friday night live readings on my Facebook page, JuliaRobertsTV<\/a> and Instagram live, juliagroberts<\/a>. I\u2019ll be reading a couple of chapters of my first novel, Life\u2019s a Beach and Then\u2026 which I was inspired to write after our first trip to Mauritius seven years ago. We both loved it so much, it immediately jumped into our top three destination choices for a beach wedding if we ever decided to take the plunge – and six years later, we did!<\/p>\n

I also talk about Mauritius in episode 49 of the QVC podcast<\/a> series, hosted by Will Gowing, which will be available to download from Monday. I have featured on the podcast previously in episode 4 alongside QVC UK\u2019s CEO Rob Muller to talk about my 26 years of QVC.<\/p>\n

In the new episode, I\u2019m talking about my early life and what led me into a career in the entertainment industry, starting as a dancer before moving into singing and small acting roles on television. I also used to do quite a few TV advertisements and this photo was from a series of commercials I did for the Woolwich Building Society in my pre-Price is Right days.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

For those people who always say, \u2018You haven\u2019t changed a bit\u2019, I think it\u2019s clear to see that I most definitely have! So, if you like to listen to podcasts, Will and I chatted for an hour (which felt like ten minutes) and you\u2019ll be able to download it from Monday.<\/p>\n

By the way, the QVC podcast<\/a> has now been downloaded over 50,000 times! Here\u2019s a link<\/a> to this week\u2019s episode, featuring the fabulous Renee Greenstein of Attitudes by Renee<\/a> and Women with Control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week I\u2019ve been trying out the Dyson Corrale<\/a> hair straighteners. I\u2019ve been on air with them, but have never tried them on my hair, so was delighted to be loaned a sample to have a \u2018play\u2019 with. I have naturally wavy\/curly hair, which I sometimes allow to blow dry as I\u2019m driving along with the roof off my soft top. This is me when I arrived at work \u2013 I have a lot of hair:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

As I haven\u2019t used straighteners for years because I don\u2019t like the heat damage on my hair, our make-up lady, June, suitably PPE\u2019d it for me the first time and we captured it on time lapse. Notice how my lips hardly stop moving \u2013 we do love a chat
\nwhen I\u2019m in the make-up chair! Also notice the guest appearance by Jackie Kabler towards the end!<\/p>\n