{"id":2206699,"date":"2025-12-20T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2206699"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:11:23","slug":"joanna-pages-awkward-christmas-film-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joanna-pages-awkward-christmas-film-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Page&#8217;s awkward Christmas film dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"e84aadad-9431-4f51-b7b9-b45f76e1c895\">Joanna Page is best known for playing Stacey Shipman in Gavin &amp; Stacey. But before she rocketed to stardom as the beloved Welsh girl from Barry, Joanna had a number of other acting roles \u2013 including one in the Christmas film classic, <em>Love Actually<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2003, age just 23, Joanna took on the part of Judy, a body double for the film industry, in Richard Curtis&#8217; hit Christmas romcom. Judy&#8217;s &#8216;job&#8217; was to film explicit scenes with John (Martin Freeman), and so for almost every scene Joanna is in, she is either half or entirely naked. Here she tells us why that&#8217;s become a tricky situation at home, and what Christmas and New Year looks like in the Page household.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"e84aadad-9431-4f51-b7b9-b45f76e1c895-2\">&#8216;I absolutely adore Christmas films \u2013 <em>The Holiday<\/em> and <em>The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/em> are my favourites. Last year my eldest, Eva, kept on asking if we could watch <em>Love Actually<\/em> and I had to say, \u2018We can\u2019t, darling, it\u2019s not suitable because Mummy\u2019s in the nude all the way through it.\u2019 But she\u2019s dying to watch it.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n<span class=\"&#10;after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid&#10;before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex custom-thumbnail-list-styles\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8216;I was flicking through the channels last year and it came on, so I watched it for a bit. I didn\u2019t see any of my scenes but I\u2019d forgotten how good the film is and how lovely it makes you feel. So I think this year might be the first year I go, \u2018OK, we\u2019re going to watch <em>Love Actually<\/em> but we\u2019ll have to fast-forward through some of Mummy\u2019s scenes!\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout \" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" id=\"9d896d9c-9d7d-49fd-a3fb-149fba329281\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"> <picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vgSJ6BD3zhx6WUoTht2uAY-1920-80.jpg.webp 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vgSJ6BD3zhx6WUoTht2uAY-1600-80.jpg.webp 1600w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vgSJ6BD3zhx6WUoTht2uAY-1280-80.jpg.webp 1280w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vgSJ6BD3zhx6WUoTht2uAY-1024-80.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vgSJ6BD3zhx6WUoTht2uAY-768-80.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vgSJ6BD3zhx6WUoTht2uAY-415-80.jpg.webp 415w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vgSJ6BD3zhx6WUoTht2uAY-360-80.jpg.webp 360w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/vgSJ6BD3zhx6WUoTht2uAY-320-80.jpg.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 710px) 670px, calc(100vw - 30px)\"\/>\n<\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"inline-layout \">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">\n<p>Joanna Page starred as Judy, a body double in the film industry, in the 2003 hit Christmas film <em>Love Actually<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><p>(Image credit: Alamy)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"92538c9d-0acc-46f8-8a7e-51aab3d3f4e6\">Speaking recently to Fearne Cotton on The Happy Place podcast, Joanna revealed she has only seen the film once up to this point, and that was no less awkward. &#8220;I was sitting in a cinema next to my parents and James, and it dawned on me &#8216;everyone&#8217;s looking at my boobs!&#8217;, oh no, I can&#8217;t bear it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p id=\"34dd792c-97f2-4737-bfc5-2fc35e6a7e02\">Love Actually aside, Joanna loves this time of year. &#8216;I adore Christmas. My husband James, myself and the kids landed home from Greece earlier this year, and it had suddenly got that bit colder. I said to James, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m really excited about Christmas,\u2019 and he went, \u2018For goodness\u2019 sake, we\u2019re still at the end of August; you can\u2019t start saying you\u2019re excited already!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As soon as Halloween is over, it\u2019s Christmastime \u2013 we put our decorations up on 1 November. I start my shopping in October too. Although most of the time I go into John Lewis thinking, \u2018I\u2019ll get my mum something nice,\u2019 then I end up buying things for myself and getting James to wrap them up for me!<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-BXrAoABoKd6pbnXqCkZ8UA\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-BXrAoABoKd6pbnXqCkZ8UA slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up to our free daily email for the latest royal and entertainment news, interesting opinion, expert advice on styling and beauty trends, and no-nonsense guides to the health and wellness questions you want answered.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"316cdec8-4638-41ff-bedc-043a9b8836dd\">&#8216;We always host Christmas and as I\u2019m an only child, my parents come and stay with us. It\u2019s always pretty busy because of my four kids. We might have friends round for a drink, but normally we all hunker down and then don\u2019t appear until well after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019m not interested in cooking in any way \u2013 I hand it all over to James, but we\u2019ll be using Bisto gravy because who has the time to be making it from scratch! My role is usually making gin <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/cocktail\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/cocktail\/\">cocktails<\/a>, providing chocolates and crisps, and playing all the board games.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2ca3c808-2a98-4bcc-af8f-b7a57f25816a\">&#8216;Looking towards a new year, I\u2019m not really into resolutions. It always used to be \u2018Don\u2019t bite your <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/nails\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/nails\/\">nails<\/a>\u2019 but now I just want to embrace life, and not worry about stuff and being perfect all the time. I want to throw perfection out of the window and just be impulsive and fun. That\u2019s my advice: embrace life and just have fun.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.womanandhome.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Page is best known for playing Stacey Shipman in Gavin &amp; Stacey. 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