Julia Carling
{{Short description|British journalist and television presenter}}
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Julia Stringer ({{nee|Smith}}; born 28 February 1965) is a British journalist and television presenter. She is the ex-wife of former England rugby captain Will Carling.
Career
Her television credits include:
- VH1 UK (VJ)
- The Big Breakfast (Channel 4)
- Top of the Pops (BBC)
- This Morning (ITV)
- Celebrity Baby (Sky One)
- Top To Toe II (Carlton Midland, 2004)
She wrote a book called Beauty Scoop with Kate Shapland, published in 2004.
Personal life
She had a relationship with guitarist Jeff Beck from the age of 18, living with him for six years.{{cite web |last1=Mossman |first1=Kate |title=The £7m fingers: how Jeff Beck became a guitar hero by saying no |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2016/07/7m-fingers-how-jeff-beck-became-guitar-hero-saying-no |website=New Statesman |publisher=NS Media Group |accessdate=1 July 2020 |date=22 July 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Simpson |first1=Anne |title=A class act in the saga of Splitsville |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12089904.a-class-act-in-the-saga-of-splitsville/ |website=The Herald |publisher=Herald & Times Group |accessdate=1 July 2020 |date=7 September 1995}}
She married England rugby captain Will Carling in 1994. They divorced in 1996.
Julia married Sony executive Rob Stringer in 2006.
She is a vegetarian and is interested in Egyptology, having taken a Diploma in the subject at Birkbeck, University of London.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/bbkmag/16/carling.html |title=The mummy returns |work=BBK Magazine 16 (Summer 2004) |accessdate=2006-11-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051126051618/http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/bbkmag/16/carling.html |archivedate=November 26, 2005 }}
References
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