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.
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