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The gospel according to JOAN

‘Come as you are? Not me, thank you very much!’

Dame Joan Collins, born ‘some time between the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of the Second World War’, has been an actress since she was 17, but if you ask her exact age, she will tell you, ‘Google it.’ (The answer from Google is 88.)

Appearing in more than 70 movies, hundreds of TV shows and plays, she’s played saints, such as missionary worker Edith Keeler in Star Trek, and sinners, most memorably, Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan in Dynasty. Even Alexis’ tally of husbands is outstripped by five-times-married Joan, who for the past two decades has

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