Sophie Turner’s ‘Joan’: Inside the true crime story of the notorious jewel thief who swallowed diamonds
nypost.com“I Am What I Am: The True Story of Britain’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief,” the show first premiered on ITV in the UK in September.
In America, it premieres Oct. 2 on the CW (9 p.m.) and on Dec. 5 on BritBox. The show is set in 1980s London, and it’s a rags-to-riches story following Joan (Turner), a woman in her 20s who is the caring mother of a 6-year-old daughter, Kelly (Mia Millichamp-Long), but she’s married to Gary (Nick Blood), a criminal.
When he goes on the run, she takes the chance to make a new life for herself and her daughter by becoming a jewel thief. Known as “the Godmother” of the diamond heist, she notoriously stole uncut diamonds from a jewelry store where she was working, and swallowed them. “Best bank in the world, is your tummy.
Best safety-deposit box invented,” Hannington wrote in her book.Turner, 28, told Harper’s Bazaar that she initially related to Joan as a fellow mother, since she had recently given birth to Delphine, her second child with her ex-husband, Joe Jonas, 35. “I was incredibly hormonal at the time and really feeling that fierce protectiveness of the new mother,” she told the outlet.
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