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Age Before Beauty

TV·2018–2018·1 season, 6 episodes·BBC One·Drama·55m

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Bel, after spending the past 18 years as a homemaker, steps in to save the family business in a failing family run beauty salon in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Family feuds and bitter rivalries, professional and personal, escalate in the salon amongst the Botox, fillers and facelifts.

Castfull cast & details

Polly WalkerPolly WalkerIsabel FinchJames MurrayJames MurrayWesley FinchKelly HarrisonKelly HarrisonLeanne RoxtonRobson GreenRobson GreenTeddy RoxtonSue JohnstonSue JohnstonIvy-Rae ReganLisa RileyLisa RileyTina ReganVictoria MyersVictoria MyersHeidi ReganMadeleine MantockMadeleine MantockLorelei Bailey

Episodes by season

Season016Episodes2018Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Age Before Beauty S01E01Episode 1July 31, 2018—When Bel and Wesley's kids go off to university, best mate Teddy - who is in love with Bel despite being married to her sister, Leanne - put
  2. S01E02Age Before Beauty S01E02Episode 2August 7, 2018—Bel hopes Wes's infidelity will be short-lived and puts a plan in motion to win him back. She books a PT session with Lorelei and is horrifi
  3. S01E03Age Before Beauty S01E03Episode 3August 14, 2018—Bel plots to humiliate Wes and Lorelei in front of their friends and family. Meanwhile Leanne is trying to get one up on Bel and has organis
  4. S01E04Episode 4August 21, 2018—Lorelei tries to win Wes's heart, and while he wants to end his affair with her, Bel's head is being turned by Teddy. Leanne has organised f
  5. S01E05Episode 5August 28, 2018—Leanne is keen to launch her own beauty product range and is furious to discover Bel had the same idea years ago, but Shameen helps her iden
  6. S01E06Episode 6August 29, 2018—The drama about a dysfunctional family torn apart by an affair concludes. At Wes and Leanne's wedding a pregnant Lorelei turns up and gives

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