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Julia Sawalha
  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Yes
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • Julia Sawalha at MrSkin.com
  • Miscellaneous information
              •  "'I would like to go into Buckingham Palace and vandalise all the walls, and stub my cigarettes out on the carpet', Absolutely Fabulous star Julia Sawalha, on what she would do if she were invisible for a day", Press Association (UK), Aug. 25, '01
              •  video, "Jonathan Creek" (1997), youtube, when?
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "She smokes like a biker, pulling the end off a Marlboro cigarette and sucking it ragged...she sips tea and chain-smokes", Sunday Times (UK), Oct. 23, '94
              •  "She is, it turns out, a vegetarian, an environmentalist, a feminist and a poet; but also a drinker, a smoker", "I watched in fascination as she extracted a Silk Cut, nipped off the final couple of centimetres and lit up. Excuse me, I said, but why. . .? 'I'm giving up smoking. I only smoke down to there. . .'", The Independent (UK), May 10, '97
              •  "Julia herself has rather an odd habit - breaking off the top of cigarettes before she smokes them. 'I like them shorter,' she explains", Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 9, '98
              •  "Julia herself has an odd habit of breaking off the tops of cigarettes before she smokes them. 'I like them shorter,' she says", The Advertiser, Nov. 7, '98
              •  "The ashtray is by now overflowing with the white tips of cigarettes which she picks off with mucky fingernails. The butts and the tips are in the ashtray, the middles smoked. 'If I pull the ends off, I kid myself I'm smoking less, all right?' she says. Why doesn't she smoke shorter fags? Like Embassy? 'For God's sake, because I don't like them,' she says. 'Come on, ask me : 'Why don't you put it out earlier?''. Because you think the clogged up bit by the filter is the best bit? 'Exactly. I like the hard bit at the end.'", The Express (UK), Dec. 9, '99
              •  "smokes roll-ups", Sunday Express Magazine (UK), Jun. 11, '00
              •  "Her voice is high-pitched and girly, with a hint of a smoker's rasp. Self-restraint, whether over cigarettes, drink, men, work or food is not her strong suit.", The Daily Telegraph (UK), Jul. 5, '00
              •  "bursting into a big grin and smoker's cackle...starts rolling herself a cigarette", The Guardian (UK), Aug. 23, '01
              •  "When Sawalha landed the part, her agent told her to pose for glamour shots showing the 'real Julia'. She laughs throatily, drawing on a fag", Sunday Times (UK), Aug. 26, '01
              •  "'I bought a diamond ring from Tiffany's once', she says as she lights up her second cigarette in 10 minutes", Christine Smith Interview, Feb. '02
              •  "Do you smoke? 'Yes, I roll my own. If I'm working I'll probably have 10 roll-ups a day. I used to smoke about 20 cigarettes a day. Smoking's the last thing I'm going to give up. I've already given up my favourite foods and cut down on alcohol. I really enjoy smoking. I know it's a mental addiction but I've tried giving up - I've had hypnotherapy, acupuncture and patches - and none of it has worked. I used to rip off the patch at the end of the day so I could have a fag!'", Woman (UK), Feb. 17, '03
  • Pictures of her smoking
              •  candid, holding, The Express (UK) (Saturday supplement), May 24, '97
  • Collections of pictures of her smoking
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  • Pictures from the net
             
  • rolling a cigarette, Mirrorball (2000) (TV), 23k
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  • dragging, 15k
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  • multiple w/videos, "Jonathan Creek" (1997)
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    Nadia Sawalha
  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Probably, unconfirmed
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • Miscellaneous information
              •  "Nadia has been obliged to lay off the booze and her 20-a-day cigarette habit. Normally, I'd be two-thirds of the way down a bottle of wine by now and halfway through a packet of ciggies, she says, sneaking a swig of Mark's lager and a crafty pull of his Marlboro Light.", Sunday Mirror (UK), Jun. 30, '02
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "The big thing for me at the moment is giving up smoking and this time I'm really determined. I thought: 'Oh my God, maybe I'll still be smoking at 40.' I really don't want that so I'm chewing gum frantically at the moment.", The Express (UK), Mar. 14, '00
              •  "[My biggest vice is] Smoking, since I was 18. If I'm at home, about five a day. But working, as often as I can. And if I'm drinking, tons. For years I'd never smoke in daylight. It would have to be dark before I'd have a fag. But I've taken to it well! I've given up loads of times. This year, for five months. But I couldn't stop eating, so I started again. Terrible. But I'm determined to stop. I'm really passionate about how bad it is, and I whip myself for it.", "I don't deserve to look healthy, with my appalling eating habits, and drinking and smoking.", The Mirror (UK), Nov. 3, '00
              •  "I also like dancing the night away in a club, drinking and smoking too much with a group of girlfriends", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 2, '01
              •  "I am addicted to alcohol, I am addicted to cigarettes", Live Talk (ITV), Jun. 8, '01
              •  quit - "Her two great struggles, she says, have been with her smoking and her weight. 'I finally gave up smoking in August - I just stopped. There will always be a place in my heart for cigarettes, but the incentive was not wanting [daughter] Maddie to sit by my bedside as I suffered a smoking-related illness. I also felt ashamed, after seeing people on City Hospital with conditions which weren't self-inflicted, that I was putting my health at risk'", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 18, '06
              •  "For TV presenter Nadia, the worst thing about stopping smoking is piling on the pounds. 'I've given up loads of times, but I couldn't stop eating so I started again,' she says", icircle website, when?



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