I had my Oscar in a cupboard ...I don't like to be show-offy

Olivia Colman on staying modest and remaking a classic 80s film

- BY MARK JEFFERIES

ACTRESS Olivia Colman is so down-to-earth she once stored her coveted Oscar in a cupboard.

The star of The Crown won the Best Actress gong in 2019 for playing Queen Anne in hit movie The Favourite.

But rather than give the golden statuette pride of place, she hid it away in a damp unit where it had to be rescued by her handyman.

Olivia, 51, confessed: "I don't have anything out on show at home... I find it a little bit showy-offy.

"It was in a cupboard in our sitting room but we've discovered the cupboard's a bit damp.

"We live in a very old house - the front of it is 1600 - so it's pretty but it is a bit damp.

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"And our lovely Darren - who's a carpenter, handyman, painter - he opened the cupboard and went, 'Are you f***ing kidding? You know it's damp in here?'

"So he made me take it out and I've now got it on a bookshelf, but behind a book, so that I know it's there and I can say 'Hello' to him."