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Dawn French says she's been run over and thrown off a cliff to make us laugh
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mirror.co.ukShe’s been soaked, run over and tossed off a cliff. All in the name of entertainment. Christmas brings the best – and the funniest – out of national treasure Dawn.
And when she donned her dog collar for her much-anticipated return as the Vicar of Dibley, well, it really was a blessing. The final instalment of her three 10-minute specials airs on BBC1 tomorrow night – and it’s another hoot.
Hard to imagine, then, that Dawn worried about taking the role back in 1994. The issue of women in the pulpit was still a fierce talking point within the Church of England back then.
But show creator Richard Curtis was determined the lead should be a female vicar. Dawn, 63, says: “I was worried about it at the beginning. “Richard wanted to do that show
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