Dame Joan Collins forced to talk down fuming husband | UK News

Dame Joan Collins has revealed how her husband Percy Gibson stormed to her defence after a man “bumped into her with his trolley in M&S”. What could shock many die-hard Dynasty followers, the 93-year-old actress will often enterprise to her local grocery store “disguised in an anorak and baseball cap” to do her weekly food store despite her worldwide fame. But on a current journey to her grocery store, the actress was left “fuming” and doubled over in pain after an unlucky trolly accident.

Recalling the painful mishap with Daily Mail Weekend Magazine, the TV icon revealed that she had to talk her husband down after he angrily confronted the person concerned. She shared Percy’s response and her attempt to defuse the state of affairs, chuckling: “Fire came out of his eyes! And I said, ‘No, no, no, no, don’t darling! It’s fine, I’m not hurt!’

“I used to be, really! Only barely. You do not like to be bumped with a trolley!” The mum-of-three shared this example as she argued that British people have become less polite in recent years, while crediting the younger members of her family as an exception to the rule.

The Hollywood icon continued:” My grandchildren and my nephews and nieces are all very well mannered and well-mannered, but I’ve seen some younger people who should not. I’ve seen some outdated people who should not too, like the person who bumped into me: he was in his late 60s.

“I think there’s a culture: Great Britain used to be known for everybody being incredibly polite and well-mannered. I don’t think we’re as polite now. We’re not known for our politeness as much as people in Spain and Italy, for example.”

Thankfully, the interviewer famous that Dame Joan appeared “none the worse for her encounter with the shopping cart”. The actress, who turned 93 earlier this 12 months, seems to be nothing short of sensational, but insisted she is against fad diets and beauty tweakments.

She credit her youthful seems to be to “healthy living”, beforehand telling The Telegraph: £I do not eat junk, I get eight hours of sleep, I exercise. It’s very simple.” It comes after the doting mum penned an emotional message to her husband Percy as he celebrated his 61st birthday.

The Dynasty star has been married to Gibson, who is 31 years her junior, since 2002. Taking to Instagram, she shared a touching carousel of snaps spanning their 25-year relationship. She captioned the touching post: “After 25 years of being together, I never get drained of being with my good-looking, great, humorous A-Husband Percy Gibson. Wishing him a marvellous birthday with infinite love.”

The couple met back in 2000 while working on the play Love Letters, which Gibson produced. The actress recalled their first meeting in her 2018 essay for the Daily Mail, revealing she never intended to marry again. She wrote: “When Percy and I met 18 years in the past, I used to be in a long-term relationship that was dragging along.

“I had declared that I never wanted to marry again, and I kept to that promise until I met Percy. We hit it off immediately. He was funny, engaging, good-looking, and after the show I would socialise with him, my co-star George Hamilton and my daughter Katy.”