‘i am ageing with fun, with commitment – but not gracefully’

Straight-talking, mad about make-up and proud to be an Essex girl, Dame Helen Mirren tells Annie Vischer what it means to be an icon

Clockwise from main: Sleuths Joyce (Celia Imrie), Ron ...

YOUR MONTHLY ENTERTAINMENT ROUND-UP

The TV presenter and novelist, who turns 68 this month, on weight loss, her unusual way with words, and why she has fallen in love with going to church

She’s played Dr Nikki Alexander in BBC drama Silent Witness for the past 21 years, but it’s clear Emilia Fox still loves her “dream role”, which she says fits in comfortably with her role as mother to

Full disclosure: I’ve known Nicky Hambleton-Jones for 25 years. We met at a book club when we were both lonely souls who had just landed in Britpop ’90s London – me from the North East of England and