{"id":186888,"date":"2025-10-03T06:23:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186888\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T06:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:23:24","slug":"my-journey-from-the-aussie-outback-to-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186888\/","title":{"rendered":"My journey from the Aussie outback to Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"

I live in a special street with just a handful of houses off the Boltons, a conservation area in Kensington and Chelsea. My husband [Antony \u201cTiggy\u201d Mayhew, a hedge fund manager] bought the house before we were married, with the view to turning it into a family home. It was bombed in the war and had a crevice running through the middle, so we stitched it back together. We\u2019ve raised our two children [Ophelia, 18, and Orlando, 16] here, so it\u2019s full of happy memories. <\/p>\n

Why Chelsea?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s beautiful and it\u2019s like living in a small village within the city. I know all my neighbours. And I know the people in my local coffee shop and M&S. <\/p>\n

\"Juliet<\/p>\n

Chelsea is like a village within the city, Mayhew says of her neighbourhood<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your interiors style?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Australian, so I wanted a fresh, modern, sunshine feel. We have beautiful antiques but I\u2019ve mixed them up with colour and fun. My neutral colour palette is punctuated with colourful Missoni fabrics that make me happy. <\/p>\n

Have you designed other people\u2019s homes?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an actress and singer first and foremost, but I\u2019m also a trained interior designer and run a bespoke carpet business. I\u2019ve designed a gym for a private members\u2019 club in Mayfair and many private homes, from a French ch\u00e2teau to a luxury house in Palm Beach, Florida. <\/p>\n

\"Juliet<\/p>\n

Mayhew\u2019s home has a \u201cfresh, modern, sunshine feel\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The kitchen features bright pink breakfast chairs<\/p>\n

\"Juliet<\/p>\n

Mayhew is a trained interior designer<\/p>\n

PHOTOGRAPHER: ROB SANDERSON; STYLIST: MAGGIE COLVIN<\/p>\n

Were you prepared for on-screen squabbles when you joined The Real Housewives of London?<\/p>\n

It was like filming a wildlife documentary gone wrong; like entering a pen with five killer animals who hadn\u2019t been fed for a month. We squabbled about all the things people love to hear women argue about: clothes, men, weight and food. I felt like a deer in the headlights. You\u2019ll see me eating more than every other housewife. I shoved food in my mouth so I didn\u2019t have to speak.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Meet the Real Housewives of London \u2014 your new TV guilty pleasure<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you feel pressure to look good for your close-up?<\/p>\n

This is a show for the gays and the girls, and its broadcast globally, so you know viewers are going to judge you for every hair out of place and every morsel of food stuck in your teeth. I have facials every fortnight. I\u2019m a big fan of polynucleotide injections and collagen boosts. If you work out a lot everything goes south, so you\u2019ve got to keep it fresh.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t a show about six super-rich women a bit tone-deaf during a cost of living crisis?<\/p>\n

Viewers should see it as escapism rather than us rubbing people\u2019s noses in it. We\u2019re making an entertainment show, not a current affairs programme. But you can\u2019t go through life not looking left and right. I don\u2019t ignore the fact that a lot of people are struggling to put food on the table.<\/p>\n

\"Juliet<\/p>\n

Mayhew with her co-stars: Amanda Cronin, Karen Loderick-Peace, Nessie Welschinger, Juliet Angus and Panthea Parker<\/p>\n

ANTONY JONES\/GETTY IMAGES FOR HAYU<\/p>\n

Where did you grow up?<\/p>\n

I spent my childhood in Queensland, one of the most magnificent parts of Australia. We lived where the rainforest meets the coral reef. Growing up as a country girl pretty much in the middle of the rainforest was special. My first childhood home was a stunning Spanish-style house in Mareeba [a small town in northeast Queensland], set in five acres. We had a rodeo and my childhood was spent running barefoot, climbing trees and riding wild horses. <\/p>\n

What took your parents to Mareeba?<\/p>\n

My dad was the local doctor. Later he became Queensland\u2019s chief medical officer and we moved to Kuranda and Cairns. I travelled with my parents on medical and humanitarian aid trips around the world. We walked across the foothills of the Himalayas to reach refugee camps in Myanmar at the height of the civil war there. It was pure carnage. It affected me to my core.<\/p>\n

\"Aerial<\/p>\n

Mareeba in Queensland, Australia, where Mayhew grew up<\/p>\n

GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

Why did you leave Australia?<\/p>\n

I won a scholarship, aged 12, to attend Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire. I went from riding brumbies [wild horses] in the outback to wearing white gloves and curtsying in an old Rothschild mansion. It was tough being thousands of miles away from home, but I wouldn\u2019t be where I am today if I hadn\u2019t gone to Tring.<\/p>\n

Juliet Mayhew is co-founder of Go-Coco, which produces a laundry detergent using only natural ingredients. The company supports women rescued from sex trafficking in Haiti and the Dominican Republic; go-coco.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I live in a special street with just a handful of houses off the Boltons, a conservation area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-186888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}