Dame Joan insists her youthful looks are down to luck, good genes and make-up. When I see my age [written down], I always think: That s a joke, that can t be! I feel 39. But as she reads aloud from her old diary, filled with the names of her crushes, including movie star Richard Burton, she looks and feels like a teenager again
The faded green teenage diary is a little dog-eared and the brown-tinged pages bear the unmistakable patina of age.
Inside, the spidery handwriting is so tiny, Dame Joan Collins needs a magnifying glass to decipher the words, written by a star-struck schoolgirl dreaming of fame.