Joanna Lumley on 'awful' diet change that had major 40

The Absolutely Fabulous star has been following this diet for decades

Dame Joanna Lumley has openly talked about her struggles with a life-altering diet choice she made - but stuck with. The 79-year-old actress, best known for her roles in Absolutely Fabulous and Netflix's Fool Me Once, claimed that becoming a vegetarian was an "awful" experience at first.

She has previously talked about her journey to becoming a vegetarian on the Waitrose-sponsored Dish podcast with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett. The actress said: "It was awful to begin with, going out to restaurants and dinner parties, because people didn't know what to do.

"They'd panic and try to make you eight eggs and sort of lasagnes which just turned into huge slabs of concrete with something horrifying in between. There was