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Coronation Street fans have predicted that Joanna Lumley could return to the cobbles - as a love interest for Ken Barlow. The Ab Fab star actually did a stint in Weatherfield back in the early 70s and her character Elaine was a love interest for Ken (Bill Roache).Joanna popped up in Happy Birthday Bill, ITV's documentary celebrating the actor and his career as he prepares to turn 90.And now fans think she could follow it up with a return to the soap - even considering her incredible Hollywood roots."Wouldn't it be fab if Joanna Lumley came back into #Corrie as Ken's old flame," one person poster on Twitter."Just need Joanna Lumley to return to the Street now...

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JUST IN: Elizabeth Taylor: Furious husband almost shot star over torrid affair"I remember knocking on the door and this lady came and I said 'Hello, can I have Richard Burton's autograph?' 'Oh, you're Dick Hopkins son aren't you?'"So I went down the passageway and heard this 'bzz' and there was Richard Burton, shaving with an electric razor, and he had a T-shirt on and blazing blue eyes. "Hopkins recalled Burton asking him if he spoke Welsh, to which he replied no, leaving the legend to declare: "Then you're not a true Welshman.

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Table Manners podcast, Joanna was asked whether she can take a lot of heat when it comes to her food.She confessed: “Some, Some.

“We like having people round and forcing them to eat the drab food we cook.“If we had takeaways, we have a good one on the South Lambeth Road, the name sadly I can’t remember.”Joanna spoke to the pair about her food habits and interests.She said that she adores corn on the cob, and also explained that, having spent a significant amount of her youth in India, she loves a curry.The star said, when asked about her ideal last supper, that she loves corn on the cob with “butter, salt, pepper, pretty much that, and eaten pretty disgustingly with it falling down your chin…“Bad for the teeth, so then a small little toothpick.“It might have been a cheese souffle, a little Swiss cheese souffle, just a little tiny one that comes up like a chef’s hat.”She said her dream main course “has to include rice".  The actress said it would have to be a “magical curry” with dal, alongside other “bits and pieces".She continued, saying she also loves to tuck into a spicy curry from Nepal, but didn’t neglect the bits on the side such as poppadoms and chutneys.Moving on, Jessie and Lennie asked the Absolutely Fabulous star about her views on the Royal Family and the Queen.Joanna responded saying that she has a lot of respect for the Queen and deems her to be an “extraordinary woman.”On her new book, A Queen for All Seasons, the presenter said the book is a celebration of the monarch in time for the Platinum Jubilee.She praised the Queen's resilient and brave behaviour, saying that she has never stopped doing what she has had to do.The star explained that even when she had “evil things” written about her, she was unable to respond.She concluded, saying that she has never watched The Crown, as she is close with the Royal Family on personal terms

The Crown as she stressed that she did not watch the Netflix original series.The actress dismissed the hit show’s storyline, saying it was “made up” and did not seem fair on members of the Royal Family.Joanna’s fondness for the Queen even led her to write a book in her honour.The book, entitled A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee, celebrates the Queen’s legacy as a Monarch.Asked on the Table Manners podcast whether she watched the programme, Joanna said she did not because she knows the Royal Family.Joanna said in the episode released yesterday: “I don’t watch it [The Crown] because I know them. I know the Royal Family, I know them, and it’s awful to see people, with stuff being made up as if they said it when they really didn’t because it’s made up.“It’s written by a script writer and people imagining how things went which isn’t what happened because we know it’s made up.“That doesn’t seem fair.

Comic Relief as Red Nose Day 2022 is just around the corner. Red Nose Day is an event designed to help put an end to child poverty around the world through fundraising events and TV specials, raising money to keep children safe, healthy, and educated. Celebs such as Jamie Laing, Hugh Bonneville, Joanna Lumley – and even Mr Blobby – have already come together to bring laughter and encourage the public to raise some funds, while Tom Daley recently completed an epic endurance test all in the name of Comic Relief.

Since the final episode of the show, the duo have worked together on various ventures.Some of their joint projects were a podcast and a radio programme.Dawn has previously spoken out on her friendship with Jennifer and how she was "conflicted" with jealousy when Jennifer’s sitcom Absolutely Fabulous gained success.The legendary duo had been set to make another series of French and Saunders in 1991, but Dawn and her then-husband Lenny Henry adopted their daughter Billie, and Dawn was unable to film.So Jennifer used the studio they had booked to try out her new show with Joanna Lumley instead.However, Dawn was a sounding board for ideas alongside US comedian Ruby Wax, 68, before the launch of Absolutely Fabulous.Speaking on Rylan Clark's Ry-Union podcast last year, Dawn explained: "When Jennifer got her scripts ready she used to pass them by me, and sometimes she used to pass them by Ruby."Ruby was definitely involved [in Ab Fab], and Jennifer really relied on Ruby as time went on."I did a few little bits in the show, obviously, and if she asked me to look at anything I would do that...but then she got confident with it and off she went."I got very conflicted about her massive success with Ab Fab. You know when your sister does really well at something? You're like, 'Oh good for you, good for you...

When we sit down for our video call with Joanna Lumley, the topic is travel as the 75 year old globetrotter has just completed her latest show, Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities Of The World. As well as chatting about her recent visits to the European hotspots of Rome, Paris and Berlin, she also lets us in on the moment she found out about becoming a dame and admits she’s not at all as glamorous as she might seem, dubbing £16 a “fortune” to spend on face cream. “I love slogging and slugging about a bit,” she says before admitting that she’s lazy with her wardrobe and hair – which she cut herself during lockdown.

Joanna Lumley has spoken out about her refusal to watch Netflix hit show The Crown after getting to know the Royal Family over the years.The 75 year old received an OBE from the Queen in 1995 and has since met the Monarch and several of her other relatives many times, becoming closer and closer to the Windsors. Joanna’s loyalty has grown so much so that the actress has said in a new interview that she cannot watch The Crown, which is based on events from the Royal family’s early to very recent history, although she admitted to having watched earlier episodes. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

Radio Times, the actress revealed that she doesn’t support their actions.The 75-year-old had strong feelings about the debate around the toppling of UK statues.When asked about her thoughts, Joanna commented: “All our ancestors were linked with something, so you can’t suddenly go, ‘But I don’t do that’.”She added: “If you eat sugar, you’re probably eating sugar that came from sugar factories that were worked by slaves, and so it goes round and round.“Lots of things were obviously reprehensible, the slave trade being one; you can’t defend that.“But there are different things that were done in the past which we can’t change.“We don’t do them now because we wouldn’t.”Joanna, who is hosting a new three-part ITV documentary series Great Cities of the World, where she explores the magnificent cities of Berlin, Paris and Rome, said: “So, I don’t know how much of the past you can smash up without finding that the wrecking ball has come very close to your own house.”Joanna has recently also spoken about the “distressing” impact she feels the Netflix series The Crown has had on the Royal Family.She told Radio Times that she can’t watch the show, because she “knows quite a lot of the Royal Family”.She continued: “I know how distressing it must be to have your life made up and then played out as truth.”The Absolutely Fabulous star was made an OBE in 1995 and became a Dame earlier this year, when she was given the honour as part of the New Years Honours list.Joanna, who is also a campaigner, said: “It comes as a complete and unexpected surprise and is the kindest and most beautiful present imaginable.”She also received the BAFTA TV Fellowship in 2017.With a career spanning over five decades, Joanna has appeared in everything from Ab

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“I burst into tears. It was such a shock because my whole life I was so thrilled I had an OBE and I thought it was fabulous."The actress continued: “I thought that was just as much as a person could ever want. “So, I thought, A, there must be a mistake.

Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, 56, took to Twitter today to praise actress Dame Joanna , 75, and to call on people to have more “mental resilience”. Many Twitter users were quick to decry both celebrities' stance on the subject, while some agreed that there was some logic to it. This morning Piers Morgan shared a tweet about Dame Joanna’s comments with his 7.9 million Twitter followers. The journalist retweeted GB News presenter Isabel Oakeshott, 47, who had shared her interview speaking to Joanna Lumley about the subject with her 195, 100 followers. In the caption Isabel wrote: “‘GET OVER IT!’ Joanna Lumley's take on the rush to describe all sadness as ‘mental illness’ - listen to the full podcast on my website.”In his retweet, Piers added: “LOVE this…” with four clapping emojis. “Of course, when I’ve regularly said similar stuff, I’ve been branded a heartless monster. “Perhaps now a national treasure like Dame Joanna’s said it, people may understand it’s actually a good thing to show mental resilience & a bit of ‘stiff upper lip.’”In the video itself, Dame Joanna tried to draw the distinction between struggling with serious mental health issues and feeling sad.She said: “When somebody dies and you grieve, that’s what being a human is.

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The Masked Singer fans have been racking their brains trying to identify the celebrity behind the Mushroom costume. Mushroom opened the series on New Year’s Day with a captivating performance of Its Oh So Quiet by Icelandic pop star Björk and has been a fan favourite ever since.The character spoke about "doing serious work" and a love for "trying new things" in the videotape, with a distinctly feminine voice and a northern English accent, but judges were baffled when Mushroom began to sing.As Mushroom belted out the 1995 classic there was a definite Irish twang in their voice, which threw the judges and the audience off the scent.