Julie Graham has shared her biggest beauty secret – the love of a younger man.
The Scottish star, 54, fell for skydiving instructor Davy Croket, 39, in 2016 while filming ITV’s drama Benidorm in Spain.
They married last year and now are in lockdown at home with Julie’s teenage daughters, Edie May, 16, and Cyd Betty 14, from her marriage to actor Joseph Bennett.
But Julie, now starring in a new series Queens of Mystery, is not minding the isolation with Davy.
She said: “He’s just lovely, gorgeous and he makes me happy.
“I help him around the house – he’s much tidier and cooks more than I do. I feel like we’re all getting to know each other again, it’s nice.
“Obviously there’s drama. They are teenagers – there’s a little bit of door slamming but mostly it’s fine.
“We go for walks, hang out, do puzzles. I’m trying to teach my kids how to use a washing machine.”
Julie joined Benidorm in 2016, a year after Joseph killed himself, and loved playing Sheron Dawson for two years.
The sunny weather and her love of Davy seems to have done her the power as she certainly does not look her age.
She said: “I think it’s really hard to place people’s ages now. When I was a kid, a woman in her 50s looked in her 50s. Now it’s much harder.
“I can’t believe women have work done in their 30s and 40s.”
Julie has fond memories of filming the much-loved comedy about a group of Brits living in a hotel in the popular seaside resort.
She said: “Benidorm was a hoot. I was a big fan of it before I was in it. I’d watched it for a while, I had mates in it. We had great fun. We were like a little family. We bickered like family and had a great laugh.”
Other favourite jobs of Julie’s include William and Mary and The Bletchley Circle, which starred Sophie Rundle, Anna Maxwell Martin and Rachel Stirling.
Julie said Queens of Mystery, on new streaming service Acorn TV this week, is a gentle mickey take out of dramas like Midsomer Murders and Murder She Wrote.
Julie said: “All these quiet sleepy villages that are full of psychotic murderers. It is a gentle nod to the absurdity of those situations.
“There are three sisters and I’m the middle sister, she’s the black sheep, the rebel. Rebels are always the most fun to play. She doesn’t give a s*it what people think about her, she’s hard drinking.
“She’s definitely the one I gravitated towards when I read the script. I have a killer wardrobe. She’s cool.”
