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If you ever come across Dame Joanna Lumley, do not do this… (Picture: Daniel Loveday/Comic Relief/Getty Images)
Dame Joanna Lumley dubbed it ‘creepy’ when fans take secret photographs of her.
The Absolutely Fabulous star, 77, is always happy to get a picture with a passer-by – as long as she knows about it.
What she can’t stand is when people film or take pictures of her without her permission.
She also has a brilliant reaction when she notices people doing just that.
‘I never mind doing photographs with people, but what I don’t like is when they steal them,’ she explained to Sky News.
‘They don’t ask, you can just see them quietly at a dinner table, going like that [gestures taking a photo] across the restaurant.
Dame Joanna doesn’t like it when fans take secret photos of her (Picture: Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
She’s more than happy to pose with fans if they ask (Picture: Victoria Jones-Pool/Getty Images)
‘I walk over and say, “Shall we do a proper picture?” And they get a bit flustered and say, “Oh, I didn’t want to disturb you,” you know? But that’s creepy.’
Dame Joanna finds the constant use of cameras on phones ‘intrusive’ and said it gives her the feeling everyone is being watched to some extent nowadays.
But it’s not just fans this certified national treasure has a problem with in this respect – she doesn’t even like supermarket CCTV cameras.
‘There’s a feeling of being watched, if you’re in a room where there’s a camera – you know you’re being watched… it’s odd,’ she explained.
Dame Joanna is stars in the hit Netflix show of the moment, Fool Me Once, alongside Michelle Keegan.
The Harlan Coben thriller follows Maya Stern (Michelle) as she tries to come to terms with her husband Joe’s murder.
Enter mother-in-law Judith Burkett, who is expertly portrayed by Dame Joanna with her trademark wit and feisty character.
Dame Joanna stars in Netflix’s Fool Me Once alongside Michelle Keegan (Picture: ishal Sharma/Netflix)
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The thriller also stars Utopia actor Adeel Akhtar, the BBC’s His Dark Materials actress Jade Anouka, and The Hobbit trilogy star Richard Armitage.
Judith and Maya have a fractured relationship in the series, and Coronation Street star Michelle previously said it was difficult saying some of her lines to such an iconic actor as Dame Joanna.
Speaking on The One Show, Admitted admitted she dreaded having to fire expletives at Dame Joanna, as she said: ‘Honestly, when I read the script, I was like, “Oh no, oh no!”‘
‘We had a bit of a laugh, didn’t we, when we were rehearsing? I don’t think I said it when we were in rehearsals, I was like, “I can’t! I can’t!”‘
Dame Joanna admitted it was a shock, as she added: ‘When it’s not used very often, bad language comes… it slaps out of the screen at you, it does.’
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Preposterous fuss about nothing. I thought you pulled some quite groovy shapes,
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- but regardless, I want our politicians fit and rested, not mentally/physically exhausted.
The Labour leadership kicked out MPs who opposed driving children into poverty.
Now they want to further banish them for opposing driving pensioners into hardship.
Instead of trying to curry favour with these hideous people, they should join the Greens or Independents.
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That is why hundreds of thousands of us have exercised our right to protest.
We will be here as long as it takes until there is an immediate ceasefire, an end to the occupation, and a just & lasting peace.
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Get you up to speed: Two US officials killed in Mexico while returning from drug lab operation
On April 18, 2026, the State Investigation Agency (AEI), the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Strategic Operations located two laboratories apparently used for the production of synthetic drugs near Guachochi and Morelos, Mexico. In a separate incident, two CIA officials died in a car crash while returning from an operation to destroy drug labs in the region.
According to the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office, a joint operation involving the State Investigation Agency (AEI), the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA), and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Strategic Operations located two drug laboratories and a camp stocked with provisions in an area bordering Guachochi and Morelos, Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated she was unaware of any joint operation with the US regarding this raid, despite claims that the Mexican army was also involved.
The US Embassy confirmed that the deceased officials were supporting Chihuahua state authorities’ efforts to combat cartel operations. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum faces increasing pressure from US President Donald Trump’s administration to intensify actions against cartels.
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A drug laboratory located roughly nine hours from the city of Chihuahua (Picture: AFP)
Two US officials killed in a car crash as they returned from destroying a secret drug lab in Mexico were working for the CIA, it has been revealed.
Two Mexican investigators also were killed in the crash, which authorities said occurred while the convoy was returning from an operation to destroy drug labs of criminal groups.
Their vehicle, which was leading a five vehicle convoy, went off the road and fell into a ravine before exploding, Mexican authorities said.
The CIA’s involvement was confirmed by the three with knowledge of the crash, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, as reported by The Washington Post.
The group located two laboratories apparently used for the production of synthetic drugs
(Picture: AFP)
The US Embassy declined to identify the dead or say which Government entity they worked for, but did confirm the officials were ‘supporting Chihuahua state authorities’ efforts to combat cartel operations.
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The embassy, State Department and CIA declined to comment on the identities of reports of CIA involvement in the operation.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum faces extreme pressure from US President Donald Trump’s administration to crack down on cartels.
Trump has taken a more aggressive stance toward Latin America than any leader in recent US history, capturing Venezuela’s president, blockading oil shipments to Cuba and launching joint military operations in Ecuador, a country also marked by criminal violence.
Trump has repeatedly offered to take action on Mexican cartels, an intervention that Sheinbaum has said was “unnecessary.”
The CIA officers were initially identified as US embassy personnel by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ron Johnson, who is himself a former CIA employee.
Local Mexican officials originally claimed they were working with the USon an operation, but later walked those comments back after the effort came under scrutiny from President Sheinbaum.
Sheinbaum said she knew nothing of a joint operation between Chihuahua’s government and the US despite reports that the Mexican army was also involved in the raid on the lab.
So far, authorities say they have found no evidence to suggest a deliberate attack and have ruled out the possibility of a confrontation at the time of the accident.
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