The day before we catch up with Joanna Page, she was discussing funeral plans with her husband, former Emmerdale actor James Thornton. She tells us, “I said to James yesterday, ‘I’ve already decided t

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I’m finding it difficult to embrace travel and hotels like I once did. I’ve scaled things back, geographically, until I decide whether to retire from live performance or not. You see, I keep getting a

As we visit her at her Cotswolds home, Dame Prue Leith talks about her experience of using fat jabs, her secret to staying young and why she’s finally slowing down at the age of 86