And in lines that could have been scripted for her outrageous character Patsy, Dame Joanna Lumley reckons smoking keeps her in fine fettle at 77.
"I am unbelievably fit," she laughed. "Despite, or probably because of smoking.
"I am never ill. I never have these extraordinary emergency procedures."
Dame Joanna was talking at a screening of her new short film, My Week With Maisy, in which her opinionated character Mrs Foster has chemo for ovarian cancer.
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