Written by Kenan
Manchester Evening News. May 18, 2009
When Julie Westwood isn’t pottering in her garden she transforms into a figure well-known to children all over the world.
Julie plays Bessie Busybody in the hit international children’s TV series LazyTown – a bustling do-gooder whose voice and life-size puppet are immediately identifiable. Identifiable, that is, to children "and anyone with young children," she explains in between sorting out her Bolton garden. Julie, in her 50s, has to take advantage of her time at home because she spends a large part of each year in Iceland, where LazyTown is filmed. ...