Julia Carling is a British

United Kingdom

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 journalist and television presenter. She is the ex-wife of former England rugby captain Will Carling

Will Carling

William David Charles Carling, OBE is a former Rugby union player for Harlequins, and a former captain of England from 1988 to 1996, winning 72 caps.-Early life:...

. She is a vegetarian and is interested in Egyptology

Egyptology

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, having taken a Diploma

Diploma

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 in the subject at Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London

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Her television credits include:

• VH1 UK
  VH1 UK
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  (VJ)
• The Big Breakfast
  The Big Breakfast
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  (Channel 4)
• Top of the Pops
  Top of the Pops
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  (BBC)
• This Morning (ITV)
• Celebrity Baby (Sky One)
• Top To Toe II (Carlton Midland, 2004)

She has written a book called Beauty Scoop with Kate Shapland, published in May 2004 by HarperCollins.

During the 1999 Rugby World Cup

1999 Rugby World Cup

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 tournament, for an advertising campaign, she temporarily changed her name to Julia Heineken

Heineken

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