Dawn wants to honour her iconic Vicar of Dibley character (Picture: BBC)
Dawn French has given her funeral some serious thought and has decided that she wants to be buried in her iconic Vicar of Dibley costume.
The 65-year-old actress played the bumbling but lovable local parish vicar Geraldine Granger was seen bringing joy and dealing with the bizarrely wonderful residents.
While the series ran yearly until 2000, Dawn and the cast have delivered updates over what the gang are up to sporadically ever since, mainly in aid of Comic Relief, or for landmark occasions such as the show’s 10th and 20th anniversaries.
In Kathy Burke’s new podcast, Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake podcast, which sees celebrity guests asked to imagine their deaths and funerals, Dawn explained how she would like to be laid to rest.
Pretty light conversation!
The star revealed she wants ‘the full vestments’ and would like to be placed in a gold casket with a Perspex lid so mourners can see her.
The comedian wants a gold casket with a Perspex lid (Picture: BBC)
Dawn doesn’t think Jennifer would want to read her eulogy (Picture: Getty)
‘I’d like to be preserved. I’d like to be embalmed, properly – full makeup with lashes,’ she added.
‘And the perspex front has two holes with my t**s coming through. And if you want, you can rub them for luck. As you enter Cornwall.’
When asked if she would love her former French and Saunders co-star Jennifer to read her eulogy, Dawn joked: ‘It would kill her to have to say so many nice things about me.’
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The presenter previously admitted that she didn’t like Jennifer when they first met, due to her own personal ‘prejudice against posh people.’
‘I didn’t really like Jen that much at the very beginning because she’s quite posh, or I thought she was but she’s not really,’ she said during the Finding the Funny podcast.
‘But as soon as I got rid of my prejudice about her, which I still have
to this day – prejudice against posh people, they have to prove their
worth to me – I thought, “She’s actually great.”‘
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‘I’d like to be preserved.’
