The Swansea-born actress confessed to the Loose Women panel that there was one job she would have always wanted to do
The former Gavin and Stacey actress confessed there was one job she always wanted(Image: Ian West/PA Wire)
Joanna Page is best known for her lead role as Barry Island’s own Stacey in Gavin and Stacey, as well as appearing as ‘Just Judy’, the body double who performs sex scenes alongside fellow actor John (Martin Freeman) in Love Actually.
However, when the Swansea born actress appeared on ITV’s Loose Women on Wednesday, June 11, she confessed to the panel how she had always wanted a rather unconventional job.
Joanna appeared alongside panellists Christine Lampard, Janet Street-Porter, Jane Moore and Grace Keeling (GK Barry) who asked her about a potential career move.
Grace went on to ask the actress: “I’m really intrigued about what I’ve heard, and it’s the new career move. Something to do with a sex therapist?” For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter.
Joanna then confessed to the panel: “I’ve always wanted to become a sex therapist.
“I’ve always wanted to train as a relationship counsellor, because I’m interested in chatting to people and their relationships and, you know, listening to their problems and what’s happened and how I can talk to them about it.
She joked: “I imagine, though, that you guys are probably going to ruin this next career move of mine. I want this to happen, it would be iconic. Yeah, I’d love to do that.”
Joanna continued to explain how she often gave advice to those around her, and told the Loose Women a story of how she helped one delivery driver much to the dismay of her husband James.
She explained: “I’ve been in the house and I’ve had, you know, like delivery drivers coming round and they’ve dropped off a delivery and then James is going, ‘oh my gosh, it’s 20 minutes later, where is she?’ and I’ve been in the back of the van talking to the driver.”
Panellist Janet Street Porter joked: “Doing it for nothing?”
Joanna said: “He’ just been like, ‘well I don’t know what to do with my relationship, with my girlfriend. What do you think?’ and James caught me in the back. He was like ‘are you alright?’ and I said ‘yeah I’ll be out in a minute. I’m just talking to him about his relationship with his girlfriend and what he should do’.”
Janet replied: “Before you train as a counsellor, I can see you’d be very good if they can get a word in edgeways,” leaving Joanna laughing.
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The Swansea-born actress was on the show to discuss her upcoming book, Lush! The book discusses, “From Swansea to Stacey and Everything in Between” and will be released at the end of September.
Joanna told the Loose Women how she had been writing the book in a local car park, to avoid the distractions of her kids. She said: ” I hand them over at 5pm to James and then I’ll get in the car and I’ll drive down to this local car park of this pub, which is changing hands, so there’s nobody there.
“I park in the car park until 1am and I write and then I get scared so I drive to another car park which is slightly closer to home. I sit there until 3am and then I drive home, park outside the front of the house. I don’t go in because Boe will sense me and I sit there until 5am. I then go back into the house and sleep for two hours, get up at 7am and get them ready for school.”
She joked that coffee was the only thing that was keeping her awake on the show, before recounting that writing the book was like therapy as she looked back at her life and admitting that she wanted to do more acting.