They ain’t nothin’ like a Dame . . .

Dame Julie Walters has said she is too embarrassed to use her title. ‘It’s just a nice thing to have. You don’t carry your BaFTas around with you.’

Hmm. I have long suspected this is how the acting fraternity sees these honours — merely as something to put on the mantelpiece of pride or in the humblebrag corner in the downstairs loo, along with your sundry gongs and your Oscars and your TV Quick trophy.

It seems any actress over a certain age, with her own teeth and not totally gaga, will automatically get a damehood. even if they have hated the establishment all their lives, like Helen mirren.

meanwhile, emma Thompson, Diana Rigg, and even Julie (right) herself... admirable women all, but do they really deserve it?