Joanna Lumley faced her innermost fears marooned on island for Girl Friday role

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Cast away, darling? On a ­desert island, darling? With nothing but, gulp... water to drink? Absolutely not, darling. Voddy-swilling chain-smoking Ab Fab icon Patsy Stone would be left trembling in her Manolo Blahniks at the thought of being marooned.

But when the star who so brilliantly played her was ­challenged to go back to basics, she took it head on and said it proved life is – absolutely fabulous.

Joanna Lumley expected to last three minutes when she was cast away as part of her BBC show Girl Friday. But she ended up embracing her desert island life for nine days – and facing up to her innermost fears.

Joanna said: “There were no books, nothing to eat or light. I lived like an animal in a cave then on a beach. That is when I stopped