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Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
Julie Burchill
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Julie Burchill
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 3
Journalist
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Frenchay
Gloucestershire
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