Joanna Lumley's bold health claim that she's 'never ill' at age 79

Joanna Lumley's bold health claim that she's 'never ill' at age 79 View 3 Images

Dame Joanna Lumley has spoken about the difficulties she faced when making one of the biggest changes to her daily diet - but she persevered with it. The 79-year-old star, renowned for her roles in Absolutely Fabulous and Netflix's Fool Me Once, revealed that adopting a vegetarian lifestyle was initially an "awful" process.

She previously discussed her transition 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