Day Dame Judi Dench flashed Sir Ben Kingsley on stage

DAME Judi Dench has revealed her naughty side... confessing she once exposed her breasts to Sir Ben Kingsley who was not amused - and admitting she has an enduring crush on Hollywood wildman Johnny Depp.

- Marc Baker

Actor Brendan O'Hea interviewed the Oscar-winning actress, 88, in front of an audience for the Stratford Literary Festival.

Explaining how she came to expose herself to Gandhi star Sir Ben on stage, she said she had been attempting to make him laugh when both were appearing in the Shakespeare play Cymbeline.

Her character Imogen has a mole upon her breast and she said: "We had been running for quite a long time and I thought we were a bit down." Dame Judi opted to write "mole" on her breast, but revealed: "It didn't go down well at all.