Legendary actress Dame Joan Collins, 88, will take viewers on an inside look into her decades-long career in showbiz in a new BBC documentary, This Is Joan Collins. The documentary, set to air on New Year’s Day, will see Joan narrate her own experiences from the golden age of Hollywood as well as an intimate look into her private life.
Joan has revealed she turned down the BBC “several times” when they propositioned her for a documentary.
In scenes yet to air on tonight’s Graham Norton Show, Joan explained her decision not to do the programme sooner was due to creative differences.
She explained: “I was asked to do it several times before, but I would only do it if I could be in control and I didn’t want talking heads.
“There are interesting things in it because I met so many fascinating people.
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“Some people think I am grand, but I am not, and you see me as I am, it’s very down to earth.
“I’ve seen it and it’s very entertaining.”
The documentary will showcase Joan’s private home movies featuring huge Hollywood names like Sammy Davis Jr, Roger Moore and Ringo Starr.
Director Clare Beavan told the Guardian earlier this year: “They’re like our home movies – except it has loads of famous people in rather than kids and your neighbours in the background. We’d have our ugly relatives – and she has film stars.
Talking about her time on the show, she discussed tension with her co-star John Forsythe, who played Blake Carrington, and how it got so frosty she refused to do a scene with him.
She told Graham Norton: “I was in my 40s when I got the role, Linda [Evans] was in her 30s, and John was 62, but the press would go on about us as older women and never mentioned John’s age.
“There was so much ageism in Hollywood, so I’d bring it up in interviews and Mr Forsythe didn’t like it.
“Then, when I accepted the People’s Choice award before he could, he refused to speak and walked off stage.