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June Watson: ‘In the 1970s at the National you couldn’t rehearse after lunch because everybody had had too much to drink!’

The actor on the extraordinary second life of her stage career, learning lines in your 80s, and the secret of her long marriage

The Guardian - UK

Unappealing as some life peers are, entitled lords are defending the indefensible

Tony Blair’s bodged upper house reform enabled a kind of Garrick Club, with no risk of women

The Guardian - UK

Bianca Del Rio on life beyond the West End, bonding with Dame Judi Dench and eyeing Strictly Come Dancing

EXCLUSIVE: The US star reflected on a decade of success after winning Drag Race in 2014

Evening Standard

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If these walls could talk: Portrait artist to celebrities and royals puts Chelsea home on the market for £850k

Christian Hook is selling the home where he painted Judi Dench, Richard Branson and the Duchess of York

Evening Standard

Lisa Westcott obituary

Oscar and Bafta-winning hair and makeup artist who worked on Les Misérables, Shakespeare in Love and The Madness of King George, and spent 26 years at the BBC

The Guardian - UK

Matt Smith casts doubt over use of trigger warnings: ‘Everything’s being dialled and dumbed down’

‘Isn’t being shocked, surprised, stirred the point?’ actor asked

The Independent UK

32 Times Celebrities Went Gray (and Looked Absolutely Stunning)

From the lightest streaks of white to a whole head of silver hair.

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Jay Blades comforts Judi Dench as she becomes emotional over late husband

Pair have made a show about their friendship, after meeting on an episode of ‘The Repair Shop’

The Independent UK

Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple review – Dench and Blades’ real-life friendship fills you with wonder

The acting legend and the Repair Shop host lift the lid on their relationship in a way that is intimate and beautiful – despite the show’s insistence on tiring stunts

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: an unlikely but charming job swap between Judi Dench and Jay Blades

Jay reads Shakespeare while Judi works on a market stall in this delightful doc. Plus, Team GB’s Olympic heroes are welcomed home. Here’s what to watch this evening.

The Guardian - UK

Rory Kinnear: ‘I congratulate everyone who is on the brink of baldness’

He was sworn to secrecy on Bond and is about to take on a fan-favourite character in The Rings of Power. But, for all the blockbuster roles, the British actor is a very sensible star

The Guardian - UK

Only cinema in Scottish town, once backed by Judi Dench, goes up for sale

The only cinema in a Scottish town has gone up for sale after closing in May ...

The National (Scotland)

Brits with eye conditions to receive DWP benefits in rules change

People from their mid-50s are more likely to suffer from the condition

Evening Standard

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench review – a class act

Ripe language and impish humour abound as Barbara Flynn reads the actor’s entertaining recollections of seven decades on stage – and Dench herself recites excerpts from the Bard

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Judi Dench and Siân Phillips become the first women members of Garrick Club

Private members’ club voted in May to admit women

The Guardian - UK

Judi Dench and Siân Phillips become first female members of Garrick Club

Exclusive: Veteran actors fast-tracked into venerable London club in wake of men-only rule being jettisoned after 193 years

The Guardian - UK

‘I can’t even see’: Judi Dench suggests retirement from acting due to blindness

The actor suggests her extraordinary stage, film and TV career has come to an end due to age-related macular degeneration

The Independent UK

Judi Dench hints film career might be over after 60 years

Dench suffers from age-related macular degeneration of her eyes and has previously said it impacts her ability to learn scripts

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The Independent UK

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

The Guardian - UK

Garden with terracotta 3D-print bricks wins Chelsea flower show green medal

Design created with no concrete and completely sustainable materials is first to win new environmental prize

The Guardian - UK

Judi Dench on trigger warnings: if you’re that sensitive, avoid the theatre

Oscar-winning actor enters row about pre-performance advisories, suggesting they kill the surprise of seeing drama in your own way

Evening Standard

Judi Dench 'set to be first female member of Garrick club'

The club’s general committee was reportedly due to meet on Friday evening to decide on the 89-year-old actress’ membership

Evening Standard

Songbirds, a chandelier and no green: how Theatre Royal Haymarket's historic star dressing room was remade

The room has hosted stage and screen legends from Ingrid Bergman and Rex Harrison, to Lauren Bacall and Judi Dench and it’s current incumbent is Sarah Snook

AAP

Royal portraitist's debut Aussie show fit for a king

Portrait painter Ralph Heimans, who has painted Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mary of Denmark, is holding his first major exhibition in Australia.

The Guardian - UK

Tears, joy, yoga – and dreaded games: stage actors share their secrets of the rehearsal room

Preparation for a play is notoriously private affair. Here five acclaimed actors and the director Richard Eyre share their experiences

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