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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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Get you up to speed: Ukraine strikes Russian oil refinery on first day of ‘Putin’s Davos’ | News World
A drone strike launched by Ukraine targeted infrastructure in three districts of St Petersburg overnight, as confirmed by the city’s governor, Alexander Beglov. Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities, and clean-up efforts are currently underway.
Clean-up efforts are currently underway in St Petersburg following the drone strike, with several injuries reported but no fatalities confirmed. The St Petersburg International Economic Forum, attended by President Vladimir Putin, commenced today, attracting around 10,000 participants from 120 countries.
St Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov confirmed that clean-up efforts are underway following the overnight drone strikes, which injured several individuals but resulted in no fatalities. In response to the attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky reinforced Ukraine’s commitment to long-range sanctions and called on allies for increased sanctions to diminish Russia’s military production capabilities.
What remains unclear — The extent of the damage to the infrastructure objects and military targets struck in St Petersburg during the drone attack is not detailed.
Ukraine targets Russian oil facility in drone strike over St Petersburg
The people of St Petersburg woke up to see a plume of smoke rising over the city after Ukraine launched a drone strike overnight.
The city’s governor, Alexander Beglov, said ‘infrastructure objects’ in three districts of the city had been hit on Wednesday.
Meanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the drones had struck several ‘military targets’, including the Petersburg Oil Terminal ‘which serves the war’ and ‘an enterprise in the Tambov region involved in the production of Russian weapons’.
In a post to X, he said: ‘Important facilities on Russian territory were hit last night.
‘I thank our warriors for their precision. Ukraine’s plan for long-range sanctions is being implemented exactly as needed to bring peace closer. Glory to Ukraine!’
Smoke rises over St Petersburg in the early hours of Wednesday (Picture: AP Photo/undefined)
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There were no fatalities as a result of the strike (Picture: AP Photo/undefined)
Beglov confirmed in a post on Telegram that clean-up efforts are underway and that several people had been injured, but there were no fatalities as a result of last night’s strike.
The attack comes ahead of what was meant to be a big day for the city for very different reasons. Russia’s annual economic forum begins today, which Russian president Vladimir Putin will attend.
The St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) has been held annually since 1997, and under the auspices of the Russian president since 2006.
Black smoke loomed over the city this morning (Picture: AP Photo/undefined)
The event attracts around 10,000 attendees from 120 countries from across the business sector, earning it comparisons with the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
Its website describes it as ‘one of the largest and most significant business events in the world’.
The strikes came a day after Russia unleashed its own latest spate of drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities including Kyiv.
At least 23 people were killed and 138 were injured, authorities said on Tuesday.
Zelensky warned in his daily address that the Kremlin is already planning its next strike and called on Ukraine’s allies to introduce harsher sanctions on Russia to undercut its ability to produce weapons and missiles.
But even without these increased sanctions, Putin’s own officials have reportedly warned him that he is running out of money.
Finance minister Anton Siluanov has reportedly estimated that Russia would overspend on its war budget by at least £20.8billion this year, as per documents seen by the Financial Times.
Russia’s central bank and other leading finance experts in the country are understood to have urged the despot to rein in defence spending as the bill becomes ‘unsustainable’.
The Kremlin boss is said to have told financial leaders to save elsewhere so he can continue to fund his costly war.
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