DAME JOAN COLLINS: WOKE IDEOLOGY MEANS BRITONS HAVE LOST THEIR SENSE OF HUMOUR

HOLLYWOOD legend Dame Joan Collins has said that the prevalence of woke ideology means that Britons have lost their sense of humour.

During an interview on GB News, she was asked if woke ideology had got out of control: “I don’t call myself an actor. If I’m in a room with some actors and actresses, I call us actors, and I do sometimes call myself a jobbing actor, but on the whole, I like to be called an actress.

“It’s a very pretty word and it’s feminine, and I consider myself to be feminine and a feminist. And why should we be called female actors? I find it demeaning, frankly.

“I think it’s gone out of control, really. You can’t say anything. People get offended. We’ve lost our British sense of humour.

“I grew up with my father going to, because he was an agent for variety halls, and so we would go and we would see outrageous comedians making jokes about their mother-in-law and fat people, you can’t say that now. You can’t say any of the stuff.“

She recalled meeting Donald Trump: “He gave a party for me…and said he wanted to be in Dynasty.

“…he gave me this party with his wife, Ivana, who became a very good friend, Ivana, up until her death. We were in the south of France a lot together, and he was very, very nice to me, very charming.

“He had all the press there. Of course, he loved having all the press there. And there was, I remember going, this was at the Trump Tower, and we went down this amazing moving staircase, escalator, in Trump Tower that was all kind of like gold plated and whatever.

“And there were dozens of photographers…but he was very nice.”

Asked if she was keen on him now, she said: “I’m not going to answer that.”

Dame Joan also recounted meetings with several Prime Ministers: “The only person who’s invited me to Chequers was Tony Blair, the only one. I sat next to him. We had a really good talk. I liked him a lot.

“I love Boris [Johnson]. Boris was a friend. I saw Boris the other day at a party. He’s still very funny, and I like John Major very much.

“He and I were on the talk show circuit last year, and we bumped into each other. He’s a very, very good speech-maker.

“Shirley Bassey and I were at Downing Street when he was making an off the record speech about something very serious, I can’t remember. Shirley and I was saying, he’s brilliant, he’s brilliant, and he was.

“I loved Mrs Thatcher. I thought she was wonderful. She was so wonderful. I was at her funeral as well. I met her several times, and through Tim Bell, because Tim Bell knew that I liked her.

“I thought she was a great example of people getting up off their asses and getting down to it.

“I think there’s just too much lying about today. My god, why is there so much mental health stuff?”