Funny at fifty my midlife (comedy) crisis

Julie Balchin has had an emotional rollercoaster with her body image and health throughout the years. But she’s become a personal trainer to share what she’s learned and help others...

IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD

I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

If you’d told my younger self that my 50s would be the decade I’d run three independent bookshops, put on huge author events with the likes of Michael Palin and Matt Haig, and win a FutureBook Award,

I’m officially of “pensionable age” – whatever that means – but every Saturday I still haul myself from Suffolk to London, put on the headphones and become “Sally Traffic” all over again. People often

For more than four decades, she has been one of Britain’s most beloved comic voices. From the outrageous, anything-goes sketches of French and Saunders to the warm-hearted Geraldine Granger in The Vic