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In recent years Julie Peasgood has established herself as a successful and versatile television presenter whilst remaining a popular and much loved actress. Her first book The Greatest Sex Tips in the World was published in April 2007 winning Julie Scarlet magazine’s Best Sex Writer Award. She now writes regularly for several leading magazines and newspapers including Woman, Cosmopolitan, Metro, Bella, The Sun, No.1, Men’s Health, Yours, Slimmer Magazine and the Mail on Sunday, and is the regular sexpert on ITV1’s The Alan Titchmarsh Show.
Julie has also recently written, directed and presented A Buyer’s Guide to Spain and Hot Zones for Real Estate TV, hosted the gardening series Turf Wars for UKTV, and her second series of Bootsale Challenge for ITV1 achieved record ratings. She regularly hosted Good Food Live for UKTV and This Morning, where she won considerable acclaim as the guest co-presenter. Julie was awarded Television Personality of the Year by the Royal Television Society, she has had her own DIY series How To… on The Discovery Channel, and has been a regular presenter for Loose Women, Wish You Were Here?, The Travel Channel, The Baby Channel, and long-term anchor for The Life Channel. For six years Julie was anchor for BMW Business TV and she now hosts many corporate events, as well as frequently giving talks and lectures on a diverse range of subjects, from a memory makeover to present day collectables.
As an actress, Julie’s career has spanned over thirty years of prestigious theatre and television. Her numerous credits include Taggart , Spender, Doctors, The Bill, First Born, September Song, Luv, A Woman’s Guide to Adultery, and Holby City. She is probably best known, however, for her work in soaps - as Barry Grant’s ill-fated girlfriend Fran in Brookside, motorbike-riding Jo in Emmerdale and the outrageous Jacqui in Hollyoaks. She is also one of the country’s leading voice-over artists, with several hundred TV and radio commercials to her name.
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