Yikes....I didn't know Dame Joan COLLINS likes Trump and UKIP/Brexit...

[NYCButterfinger]

Remember her? Dame Joan Collins who became internationally famous with her role as character Alexis Carrington on the 1980s classic Dynasty?

She is a Trump lover.

"I based Alexis on ‘a businessman like Donald Trump,’ she says, describing her most iconic character, the ice queen of the Colbys in the gloriously over-the-top soap Dynasty.

‘She was tough and uncompromising, using her sexuality to manipulate people. I met Donald with [his former wife] Ivana, who is still a very good friend of mine. And he was a very good-looking guy.’"


Miss Collins said that she was not particularly political and since backing UKIP she had "got to know a bit more" about their policies which she felt were "quite reasonable".

"This was four months ago and, to be quite frank, I have not been concentrating on British politics," she added.

"But you know what, I really don't want to get into politics."

She said: "I don't know why everyone is so fascinated with me and Ukip. I was always going on about how much I loved Maggie Thatcher. I don't remember that causing much of an outcry.

"I was a huge Thatcherite and nobody seemed to give a damn, so why all of a sudden this whole thing with UKIP? It doesn't make any sense to me."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-3748736/Outspoken-outrageous-road-Hollywood-icon-Joan-Collins-lets-rip-friendship-Donald-Trump-hates-British-TV-except-Poldark.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3964151.stm

[tanyev]

1. She's no Edith Keeler.

Adding for non-Trekkies:

The City on the Edge of Forever

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) give chase, in time learning that McCoy has changed time by saving the life of Edith Keeler (Joan Collins), the near-saintly proprietor of a soup kitchen. If allowed to live, her idealistic message of pacifism and tolerance will delay the United States’ entry into World War II, allowing Hitler to develop the atomic bomb, win the war, and dominate the Earth — shutting the door on the hopeful future imagined throughout the series.

And so, as Spock says twice in the episode — first as a question then as a statement arrived at through cold, hard logic — Edith Keeler must die. The only problem: Kirk has fallen in love with her and isn’t sure he can bring himself to let her die. But, after reuniting with McCoy, he does just that, stopping the doctor from saving Edith from a truck that strikes her down in the street.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/6/29/17518928/harlan-ellison-star-trek-grudge-science-fiction-rip

[Trumpocalypse]

4. Bye bye Edith!

[msongs]

2. she should be grateful anyone mentions her at all for any reason, ever nt

[NYCButterfinger]

3. She's still relevant

[RhodeIslandOne]

5. She is?

My grandmother watched Dynasty. She's been dead twenty years.

If I played "Dead or not" with Joan Collins I'd have to think for awhile.

[NYCButterfinger]

7. Oh yes, Collins is a young 87

She's not going anywhere.

She writes for the Daily Mail and other sources.

She's strong, tough and feisty than ever.

She has homes in LA, London, etc.

She is still one of Hollywood's elite actresses.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8753023/Joan-Collins-87-reveals-feels-closer-husband-18-years-Percy-Gibson.html

[LanternWaste]

10. No. She's not.

No feature films, no first run television, no stage work in years...

Those are the standards of relevance in regards to an actor.

All else is simply wishful thinking.

[NYCButterfinger]

20. She is in some roles

[OnDoutside]

6. Gasp ! She's still alive ?

[NYCButterfinger]

8. Piers Morgan and Collins are BFFs

The two of them and Boris Johnson rule Conservative politics in Britain and the world.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/09/piers-morgan-proves-officially-bffs-dame-joan-collins-pair-go-fifth-dinner-st-tropez-13106504/

[RhodeIslandOne]

9. He sucks too.

[Blue_true]

11. From what I understand, she has always been a right winger. She loved Ronnie. nt

[Totally Tunsie]

12. Frankly, I don't give a flying fig who ANY "celebrity" endorses.

Why does the public give them so much credence? Their public stature does not grant them any special intelligence in politics or any other subject.

Christ, she's not even a U.S. citizen. Why should we care who she likes?
Next...

[NYCButterfinger]

18. Collins has dual citizenship. She lives in America half of the year.

She has homes in LA, NY, France and London.

She is elite.

She's bigtime

[Totally Tunsie]

21. Do you have a source regarding her citizenship?

I could find nothing showing her as a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Residency doesn't count.

[NYCButterfinger]

22. She has residences in the U.S.

She has homes in LA and NY

She has a holiday house at St. Tropez in France

[Totally Tunsie]

23. Residency doesn't grant citizenship.

Her sister Jackie was naturalized in 2006. There are no such notes about Joan becoming a citizen.

[demtenjeep]

13. wasn't she Regan's 1st wife?

or am I mistaken

[Totally Tunsie]

14. That would be Jane Wyman.

[demtenjeep]

15. oh of Falcon Crest

Thank you



got them mixed up

[JI7]

16. Who ?

The name is familiar and seems like it's from the 80s but don't remember what she does.

[NYCButterfinger]

19. She played Alexis Colby Carrington in the Reagan-Bush Eighties show Dynasty

She made soap operas more popular to watch

[uriel1972]

24. sarcasm is hard to detect over the interwebs

but the post you replied to set my sarca-sniffer off.

[Ilsa]

28. I hated that show.

It seemed like it was entirely about two women fighting over a rich man, one being the spurned, bitter wife, the other being the sweet girl from the other side of the tracks. It was about bitchiness, and it was on the front cover of tabloids. That made it easy for me to decide not to watch.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Ugh! Who gives a damn what she thinks.

She's got one foot in the grave. The sooner she's gone, the better. She is obviously a horrible person.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. I'm not in the least surprised. She was always arrogant.

But no, she is not very important these days. She did a Snickers ad a couple of years ago (playing on her 'diva' reputation). That's about it.

[PCIntern]

26. I have a funny story about her sister Jackie Collins,

For background, my mother was involved in literature and publishing in her early years, and was a bit of a snot with respect to writing and publishing. One day she had to run to the bathroom somewhere and she picked up a book which happened to be written by Jackie Collins, it was one of those highly sexed potboilers with contrived plot and all that goes with those novels. She mentioned to me that she was surprised how well written it was for what it was, And that it was one of the most compelling novels of the genre she had ever. read. That wasn’t to say that she thought that she was William Faulkner, but it was surprisingly high praise from a lady who was vicious in terms of criticism scripts, writing, and acting.

The only other time she surprised me this Way was After having debased fast food for my entire life, she got stuck having to have a big Mac once and for the first time at a McDonald’s, and she said to me with real surprise: “ this tastes pretty good actually”. I burst out laughing at the time, and so did she.

[Klaralven]

27. Her choice of men has never been that astute.