Dame Joan to reveal ‘ scandalous’ secrets from her diaries, at 87
DAME JOAN Collins will publish her “outrageous” and “uncensored” diaries.
Life AD ( After Dynasty) will contain no- holds- barred stories of other celebrities and “wry insights”.
Publishers describe the 87- year- old actress’s diary entries as unapologetic, saying she “doesn’t care”.
They detail encounters with members of the Royal Family and her “honest insights of other celebrities at parties or dinners”.
The Dynasty star is said to have written almost all the “hilarious” entries within hours of the events they describe.
Publishers said her diaries were “as scandalous as Andy Warhol’s – and pull no punches”.
Life AD is being published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, which previously published diaries by Evelyn Waugh, Noel Coward,
Cecil Beaton, Alan Clark and Sir Michael Palin.
Dame Joan, star of the TV anthology American Horror Story, said: “I am thrilled about being published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and under the guidance of Alan Samson [ the publisher’s chairman].
“He was clever to publish these diaries, ensuring he won’t end up in them.”
Samson said: “It is no surprise that Joan’s elegant and needlesharp observations as a writer combine the detachment of a great diarist with her active participation in many of the highly entertaining events she describes.”
Dame Joan was born in Paddington, London, and brought up in Maida Vale in a showbusiness family.
She made her stage debut in the Henrik Ibsen play A Doll’s House at the age of nine and at 16 trained as an actress with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Her big break came with a major, highly publicised role as a juvenile delinquent in I Believe in You ( 1952).
Her success in the part led to her initial stardom and the Press giving her the nickname “Britain’s Bad Girl”.