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Ellie Harrison

Julie Andrews reveals unexpected place she used to keep her Oscar

Photograph: Rex Features

Julie Andrews has admitted she used to hide the Oscar she won for playing Mary Poppins.

Andrews won her Academy Award for Best Actress in 1965, before being nominated twice more for The Sound of Music in 1966 and Victor/Victoria in 1983.

During an appearance on ITV’s This Morning, she said: “I put it in the attic because I didn’t want to look like I was bragging, ‘Oh, look at my Oscar!’, if it was front and centre of the mantlepiece.  

“I just kept it very private for a while, but these days it is in an office. But I was very, very, very grateful.”

Andrews also said she took a pair of Mary Poppins shoes from the film set, which she has filled with sand and put to use as a doorstop.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins (Rex Features)

Last year, Andrews said she “didn’t feel worthy” of the Oscar at the time because she was so new to the American film industry.

“I thought the Oscar had been given to me as a kind of welcome to Hollywood,” Andrews said.

Andrews can next be seen in Bridgerton, a series based on the romance novels of Julia Quinn, that will arrive on Netflix on Christmas Day.

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