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Queen Camilla is launching a podcast. The 76-year-old royal launched her online book club, The Reading Room, in January 2021 and she's expanding on the success of the venture with a new weekly literary series, in which she will let listeners in on her "all time favourite reads". Each of the eight episodes will include a segment from the queen, as well as an interview with guests including Dame Joanna Lumley and Sir Ian Rankin about their favourite books, while novelists Elif Shafak and Bonnie Garmus will share what life is like as book lovers on the move, and children's authors Joseph Coelho a...
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Dame Joanna Lumley thinks social media causes "harrowing" problems for young people. The 77-year-old actress believes platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have "amplified and distorted" the pressures faced by teenagers so called for both parents and their kids to spend less time online and have more face-to-face conversations instead. She told Britain's HELLO! magazine: “The pressures they face are very different to my day. Having to be seen to be happy and look their best all the time – I mean those pressures were there when I was growing up but it’s all amplified and distorted by social me...
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British comedy icon Jennifer Saunders has vowed that by the end of 2023, she will have completed a new Absolutely Fabulous script based on the beloved BBC sitcom. Saunders, 65, promised her long-time writing partner and friend Dawn French that she would have an early draft of the project done in the next two months. French previously revealed that she regularly challenges Saunders to work when she can see her friend needs encouragement. Dawn established a prior deal with Saunders that if Saunders was unable to complete the Absolutely Fabulous script, she would have to pay French £10,000 ($12,1...
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Joanna Lumley believes people have needlessly become scared of death and it should instead be welcomed as a "friend". The Absolutely Fabulous star voiced her concern about the vilification of death, which she argues has been exacerbated recently. During an interview with My Weekly magazine, she said: "In the old days it [death] was so familiar to us because people loved in houses where, horrifyingly, children died, grannies died, people died. Death was ever present. All around. And now it's something that only happens behind closed doors or in the distant rooms and is always considered a great...
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Dame Joanna Lumley is “thrilled” Queen Camilla is no longer called Queen Consort. The 76-year-old royal’s title was changed after she and husband King Charles were formally crowned in May, and the ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ star believes her friend is a “tremendous asset" and “wonderful figurehead” for the country. She told Britain’s HELLO! magazine: “I think she’s going to be a completely wonderful Queen. I’m thrilled that she’s called Queen Camilla, rather than Queen Consort, because that is her name. “And I think Queen Camilla is a tremendous asset, a wonderful figurehead and a tremendous name t...
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Joanna Lumley thinks sex scenes are "revolting". The 77-year-old actress has always hated shooting sex scenes, likening them to making "soft porn", and Joanna would actually like them to be cut altogether. Reflecting on her early years in the film and TV business, she told the Guardian newspaper: "Oh, everybody stripped. Everybody had to, from Diana Rigg to Julie Christie, we all had to take at least our tops off in something. "It was standard and it was this, ‘You’re not a real actress unless you take your top off.’ Nobody liked it, like nobody likes intimate kissing or sex scenes. All this g...
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Dame Joanna Lumley was starstruck working with Leonardo DiCaprio. The BAFA-winning actress played the role of Aunt Emma in the Hollywood actor's 2013 film 'The Wolf of Wall Street' - in which he portrayed the real-life fraudulent stockbroker Jordan Belfort - and she admitted her heart was fluttering at the thought of working with the heartthrob but she was amazed by how down to earth and "humble" he was. She told Heat magazine: "My heart did beat a little faster at the thought of working with Leonardo DiCaprio. He was just golden. "He couldn't have been sweeter or more courteous. "I was afraid...
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Richard E. Grant is to host the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards. The 65-year-old actor will front the upcoming ceremony - which takes place on Sunday February 19 and will honour the biggest achievements in British moviemaking over the last year - and is looking forward to "celebrating the very best" the industry has to offer as he follows on from the likes of Rebel Wilson, Dame Joanna Lumley and Graham Norton in taking the reigns at the annual event. In a statement, he said: "I feel hugely privileged to be hosting the EE Baftas for the first time and the opportunity to celebrate the very best of the ex...
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Joanna Lumley has claimed women used to be "a lot tougher" before being a "victim" became "the new fashion". The 76-year-old actress has addressed the #MeToo movement - which has seen people speak out against sexual abuse and harassment in Hollywood, the wider entertainment industry and society as a whole - and insisted people have "gone mad". She told Prospect magazine: "If someone whistled at you in the street, it didn’t matter. If someone was groping, we slapped their hands. "We were quite tough and looked after ourselves… The new fashion is to be a victim, a victim of something. It’s pathe...
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Joanna Lumley was late for a recording session with the Duchess of Cornwall after getting stuck trying to drive across a bridge in London. The ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ star had been due to record the ‘Commonwealth Poetry Podcast’ with Camilla and host Gyles Brandreth at royal residence Clarence House but she ended up missing the start due to a mix-up on the journey. Gyles explained to Britain's HELLO! magazine: “We were all miked up and the cameras were set to roll. Then I got a text from Joanna saying: ‘Stuck on bridge’. “She was trying to drive across the river and pleaded with the police to le...
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