Dame Helen scares bear from garden

BALLSY Dame Helen Mirren has said she confronted a BEAR in her garden.

The Oscar- winning actress, 74, said the black bear came onto her property to eat bird feed.

She told the WTF With Marc Maron podcast she drove it away from her newlybuilt home near Lake Tahoe in Nevada by shouting “bad bear”.

Dame Helen said: “A great big black bear came by and stole my bird feed.

“I went out and I said, ‘ Bad bear, naughty bear, very naughty bear!’

“He sort of looked at me and lumbered off.”

The Queen star said she learnt from a pamphlet what to do if you find yourself facing a bear “looking aggressively at you and hunching its back like it is about to charge”.

“They said you make yourself look as big as possible, if you can grab a stick, and then it literally said shout, ‘ Bad bear, bad bear!’”

MY dad used to say, ‘ Always fight fire with fire’, which is probably why he got thrown out of the fire brigade.

– Peter Kay