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Queen Camilla pays a special tribute to her late friend Paul O'Grady in an upcoming radio special. Friends of the TV legend - who passed away in March aged 67 - will celebrate his life with a special edition of Boom Radio on Christmas Day (25.12.23), the station he hosted an annual festive episode for 14 years. King Charles' wife was deeply fond of the 'For The Love of Dogs' presenter and the 76-year-old royal is a patron of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, where animal-lover and ambassador Paul spent many hours checking in on the animals at the shelter. Camilla's tribute read out at a memorial t...
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Dawn French revived her Vicar Of Dibley character to give a eulogy at a living funeral for a friend battling cancer. The 65-year-old actress donned a cassock and dog collar to step back into the shoes of Geraldine Granger - who she played in the BBC sitcom for three series - to give a speech at the "FUNeral" on Saturday (10.06.23) at Truro Cathedral in Cornwall in honour of her pal Kris Hallenga - the 37-year-old founder of the CoppaFeel! charity who has stage four breast cancer. Dawn shared a picture of the pair together on Instagram and explained: "It was my privilege and joy to Dibley it up...
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Katy Perry is a big fan of 'French and Saunders.' The 38-year-old pop singer was a new artist performing her now-signature hit 'I Kissed A Girl' at a small gig in London back in 2008 when she met BBC DJ Scott Mills, who now "cannot believe" that he spent several hours chatting to the now-global superstar before her career took off. He recalled: "[Jo Whiley] invited me to one of her... gigs ... in North London... in 2008... asking me if I would like to introduce somebody at that concert... And on the email, Jo had put, ‘We’ve also got this new artist coming down called Katy Perry, and she’s got...
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Dawn French was "terrified" of dating again after her divorce from Sir Lenny Henry. The 'Vicar of Dibley' star tied the knot with therapist and charity co-founder Mark Bignell in 2013, but she has admitted she dreaded looking for love after her 25-year marriage to fellow comedian Lenny, 64, ended in 2010, because she's not very good at flirting. She told New Zealand's Woman's Weekly magazine: "Dating was difficult as I'm not an accomplished flirter. "Then, bang, I met somebody else." She gushed: "I married a very cheerful man and I've come to realise just how important cheerfulness is - it's a...
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Dawn French admitted she didn’t like “posh” Jennifer Saunders when they first met. The ‘Vicar of Dibley’ star confessed to not taking immediately to her future ‘French and Saunders’ double act partner, 64, at drama school in the 70s but soon became such good friends they “sort of in love”. Speaking to the ‘Finding the Funny’ podcast, the 64-year-old comic told Ange and Ruth Corden: "I didn't really like Jen that much at the very beginning because she's quite posh, or I thought she was but she's not really. She had a whole friendship group of way out of my league sort of people, and then I had ...
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Dawn French has admitted she was jealous of Jennifer Saunders' 'Absolutely Fabulous' success. Dawn's comedy partner Jennifer, 63, found huge success with the sitcom in the nineties and Dawn, 64, admitted that while she was happy for her pal, she was also extremely envious of her rising stardom. Speaking on Rylan Clark-Neal's 'RyUnion' podcast, she said: "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… f*** you'. "When you love somebody as much as I love Jennifer, the glee and th...
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Dawn French has paid tribute to fellow comedian Jethro, who has died at the age of 73 after contracting COVID-19. The comedian shot to fame after appearing on 'The Des O'Connor Show' in 1990 and spent the years that followed touring theatres with his stand up and 'Vicar of Dibley' star Dawn took to Twitter to pay her respects. She tweeted: "This gloriously un-pc Cornishman, Jethro, (Geoffrey Rowe) has left us. Some of my most helpless with laughter moments were in his presence. A supremely gifted comedian. Thoughts with all he loved. Geddon bey. Her words came soon after his family announced h...
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Dawn French has stopped shaving her armpit hair. The comedian admits that since she reached the age of 63 her unwanted body hair has stopped growing so thickly so now she has put down the razor and let her few tufts grow. Appearing on 'The Guilty Feminist' podcast, she said: “When I was younger I did some shaving and then I realised I mustn’t do that, then I did Veet and then I did waxing. “When you get 63, here’s something really good about getting older and there’s not much let me tell you, one good thing is that your hair just doesn’t grow so much, suddenly you realise you’ve gone a couple ...
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