Comedian Julia Morris finds her sweet spot with two shows next year and comedy tour
JULIA Morris can’t quite work out what has changed to have made her career so fruitful in recent years. The bubbly comedian is currently the host of Blind Date as well as two other shows next year and her tour commitments.
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JULIA Morris can’t quite work out what has changed to have made her career so fruitful in recent years.
“I feel like I’ve been the same performer all along,” Morris told Confidential.
“Is there something in ladies in their extreme 40s that are allowed to have a voice and an opinion. I can’t quite work out what it is because I honestly feel like I am the same person.”
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Morris, who turned 50 in April, is the host of new dating show Blind Date.
She’s also returning to host I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! in January, and she and Dr Chris Brown will anchor a new format, Sunday Night Takeaway, next year.
That’s all on top of Morris’s touring commitments and corporate work as a comedian.
“I have always worked this hard, it just hasn’t been as fruitful,” she said.
“Maybe I have turned down the volume on my incredibly full-on-ness. That might be where I have hit the sweet spot. That was just age and not needing as much attention as I would have when I was younger. Now I’m too tired to try and drum up some attention.”
Blind Date, which airs Mondays at 7.30pm on Ten, has been described as a reimagining of ’80s dating show Perfect Match, where one male or female has to choose a date from three possible suitors.
“There are many dating shows on air … but I think one of the things that sets it apart is that it is not nasty, it is just a bit giggly and sweet.”
As for her own dating life before marrying partner Dan Thomas over a decade ago, the mum of two said: “There was a substantial amount of overnight romance. I don’t remember people asking me out as such. I have always been quite a full-on girl and that doesn’t tend to be the girl that chaps come up to and ask to spend more time with.”