‘I can't imagine not WORKING'

Joan Collins has no desire to slow down and retire – there’s just too much she wants to do!

-  JULIE ANN TRAINOR

She may have a Damehood and own several luxury homes on both sides of the Atlantic, but that didn’t make lockdown any easier for actress Joan Collins.

The 88-year-old reveals she had to ride out the storm just like everyone else, and even went as far as to describe it as a prison sentence.

‘I was in London for most of the time,’ she says reflecting on the past 18 months. ‘But after the three-month period from March [2020], I went to the south of France, as I have a house there. I found London difficult because I felt like I was in jail, not knowing when I was going to get out,’ she confesses.

Pressed on whether she found herself lounging around in tracksuits like the rest of the nation, the normally sequinclad star quips, ‘Of course I was. Weren’t we all? I gained about half a stone,’ she adds. ‘I was eating as much as possible because aside from drinking bottles of wine and polishing off chocolates – what else was there to do?

‘I also watched endless television – it was ridiculous. I watched nine hours one day,’ she recalls. ‘I would watch the morning programmes and read all the papers, so that would take me up to lunchtime,’ she says.