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Wonder what Julia Davis has done?

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LighthouseTheme · 07/04/2024 20:08

Ep 5 of The Regime (bonkers show and not entirely keen, I have to admit) has a brief appearance by Julia Davis (of Nighty Night, and other things). But I did have to check the cast list to be sure.

As a recent "victim" of ill-judged Botox [my own stupid fault....], I suppose I am on high alert to these things.

I will screenshot the scene if I can.

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Amanda668 · 19/09/2025 10:39

She looks absolutely horrible.. big square face from fillers, pinched twisted lips. She was never a looker but now she does

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LighthouseTheme · 12/04/2024 19:52

Yes, even this small part was played very well. But the frozen face - more evident in the footage than the screenshot - was distracting, to me at least. When this happens, it looks as though they still have numbness from dental anaesthetic.

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Delatron · 12/04/2024 19:03

I remember seeing her in Camping and thinking she’d had filler then. And that was about 4 years ago.

I love her as an actress. But I think she’s definitely a fan of cosmetic work.

GreyTonkinese · 12/04/2024 18:38

I have a tiny bit of filler in some lines. I say tiny and it is completely unnoticeable other than I am a bit less wrinkled. The plastic surgeon who did it actually winced when he said he wouldn't try to change structure with filler or inject huge amounts to add volume. I think the thing with filler is that people notice the bad technique and just think the ones with good technique had good genes.

curiositykilledthiscat · 12/04/2024 18:31

Just watched her in the episode and she does look different but I’ve not seen her in anything for a long time so maybe that’s part of it as well - she’s visibly aged.

Mariannas · 12/04/2024 17:16

My dsis looked very similar when she had to take long term steroids and other meds for a life limiting condition.

Doingmybest12 · 12/04/2024 17:03

SmallBox · 12/04/2024 16:20

My face looked like that when had to take steroids. It might be that.

I was going to suggest this.

Delatron · 12/04/2024 17:00

I do think filler rather than steroids as the filler has made her eyes look smaller which is what happened when you overdo it.

Delatron · 12/04/2024 16:59

She’s been doing stuff to her face for years (no shade from me - I get a bit of Botox). But what people don’t realise is that fillers last a lot longer than manufacturers say. So she may have started years ago, they look ok at first but then you keep putting filler on filler. And you lose perspective.

Nobody should be getting filler topped up annually. They last years and years.

OutOfTheHouse · 12/04/2024 16:38

SmallBox · 12/04/2024 16:20

My face looked like that when had to take steroids. It might be that.

That’s what I thought. I had a friend who had to take steroids and was so puffy he looked quite different. I hope she is well.

SmallBox · 12/04/2024 16:20

My face looked like that when had to take steroids. It might be that.

ItIsifISayItIs · 12/04/2024 14:05

Wow! I really wouldn’t have recognised her😱

I really loved most of her stuff, “Nighty Nighty” she was brilliant, and just hilarious in “Gavin and Stacey”, often stealing the scenes from Alison Steadman. There was something else she was in, but I can never remember the name?

It looks like she’s had filler (a bit too much) I do hope she doesn’t have anymore, she had such an expressive face.

oakleaffy · 12/04/2024 13:14

ns87 · 12/04/2024 11:27

Wouldn't have known her, fillers have given her that puffy face look.

Rather like a mumpy 🐹 Hamster.

What a shame people feel the need to do this.

Theimpossiblegirl · 12/04/2024 13:11

Such a shame. She looked lovely before and didn't need work.

MiniCooperLover · 12/04/2024 13:06

She's got older and she's gone a bit crazy with the fillers. Slim people don't generally tend to have such plump shiny cheeks as they get older ....

ThePoshUns · 12/04/2024 12:50

She looks like Felicity Kendall in that screenshot. What a shame she felt the need to do this to herself

GalileoHumpkins · 12/04/2024 12:28

She works in an industry that worships youth above all else, the pressure to remain youthful looking and relevant must be huge. You can't blame women for buying into it or risking work drying up.

I love Julian Barratt as well, are they still together? He doesn't seem the type to encourage an unnatural amount of 'work', but who knows?

What a strange comment, why are you assuming he's encouraged or discouraged anything she wants to do to her own face?

BobbyBiscuits · 12/04/2024 12:18

She looks really swollen. It's such a shame. She always had one of those really slim, angular faces I think are gorgeous. But then as an actor they get the fear about looking gaunt and go mad for the dodgy fillers. I really like her. I love Julian Barratt as well, are they still together? He doesn't seem the type to encourage an unnatural amount of 'work', but who knows? I hope she lets it go down and doesn't go back to that clinic!

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LighthouseTheme · 12/04/2024 12:13

Americano75 · 12/04/2024 11:57

I'm impressed you got that far, I watched half the first episode and couldn't be arsed going on with it.

As I said, it's bonkers - and a bit close to the knuckle in some respects.
I read a review that suggested it parallels our own Gvmnt, in denial and fiddling while Rome burns... and Hugh Grant didn't last long!
I am not watching glued to it though.

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lollipoprainbow · 12/04/2024 12:13

She looks a like Stacy from Gavin and Stacy now !

lollipoprainbow · 12/04/2024 12:09

Nooo she is such a naturally beautiful woman.

Dotjones · 12/04/2024 12:02

She was good in the early days, the agency for thick people in Jam for instance.

"Thick people are very good at winning arguments, because they're too thick to realise that they've lost."

SabreIsMyFave · 12/04/2024 12:01

I have never heard of her or seen her in anything, but whoever she is she looks a bit odd on that photograph. I haven't googled her - or her age - but I am guessing she is about 56. So I wonder if the procedures on her face have made her look any younger. (That is why people have these procedures - to look younger. It rarely does the job!)

EDITED 4 minutes later TO SAY...

Just googled her, and I can see who she is now. I know her from Gavin and Stacey! So yeah, she IS unrecognisable now. Why do celebrities (usually female ones) do this to themselves?! She looks so weird!

OutOfTheHouse · 12/04/2024 12:01

Is that really the same woman? Julia Davis had such striking features, and I mean that in a good way. I wouldn’t recognise her from that picture.

Barkybarkynutnut · 12/04/2024 11:58

Ooh that’s not good

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