The actress talks about her showbusiness family, her five husbands and why she never ignores her sister Jackie's advice
I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress. She taught me to sing, tap dance and even do the splits – which I can still do. "Oh, Grandma, what bendy legs you have!" I squealed when, at Christmas at the Collins abode, she performed her famous splits to a packed room. It was a trick she had learned as a dancer and soubrette while touring the capes of South Africa with her two sisters, entertaining troops on leave from the Boer war. My father, Joe, followed her into the business and became a successful variety agent – our house was always full of performers. But he strongly discouraged me from becoming an actress and warned I would be washed up by 23.
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew...
I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress. She taught me to sing, tap dance and even do the splits – which I can still do. "Oh, Grandma, what bendy legs you have!" I squealed when, at Christmas at the Collins abode, she performed her famous splits to a packed room. It was a trick she had learned as a dancer and soubrette while touring the capes of South Africa with her two sisters, entertaining troops on leave from the Boer war. My father, Joe, followed her into the business and became a successful variety agent – our house was always full of performers. But he strongly discouraged me from becoming an actress and warned I would be washed up by 23.
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew...
- 10/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Aug 21: Joan Collins has revealed in her book that her first husband Maxwell Reed raped her on their first meeting when she was just 18 years old.
The veteran actress has said in 'The World According To Joan' that her introduction to sex was a violent and unhappy one.
Collins said she was a virgin when she met Hollywood heartthrob Reed and was thrilled when he asked her out.
"I was 18 going on 13, that is how young people were in the Fiftiess. 'Maxwell picked me up at Hyde Park Corner Tube station in a powder-blue Buick," she told the Daily Mail.
"It was amazing for me. He was.
The veteran actress has said in 'The World According To Joan' that her introduction to sex was a violent and unhappy one.
Collins said she was a virgin when she met Hollywood heartthrob Reed and was thrilled when he asked her out.
"I was 18 going on 13, that is how young people were in the Fiftiess. 'Maxwell picked me up at Hyde Park Corner Tube station in a powder-blue Buick," she told the Daily Mail.
"It was amazing for me. He was.
- 8/21/2011
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Veteran British star Joan Collins regrets her four failed marriages, calling them "my filth".
The celebrated actress, 75, insists husband number five, Percy Gibson, is the love of her life - and he'll be her last.
But some of her exes were big mistakes, made during periods of "madness".
Recalling each of her former marriages, Collins says, "The first time (Maxwell Reed), I was 18 and much too young. My second (Anthony Newley) and third (Ronald Kass), I had children from them."
But it's husband number four, Peter Holm, who comes in for the heaviest criticism.
The actress snarls, "(He) was a Swede and it (marriage) came in a moment of insanity... I was going through a madness phase."
Collins and Holm were married for less than two years.
The actress married her fifth husband, theatre boss Gibson, in 2002.
The celebrated actress, 75, insists husband number five, Percy Gibson, is the love of her life - and he'll be her last.
But some of her exes were big mistakes, made during periods of "madness".
Recalling each of her former marriages, Collins says, "The first time (Maxwell Reed), I was 18 and much too young. My second (Anthony Newley) and third (Ronald Kass), I had children from them."
But it's husband number four, Peter Holm, who comes in for the heaviest criticism.
The actress snarls, "(He) was a Swede and it (marriage) came in a moment of insanity... I was going through a madness phase."
Collins and Holm were married for less than two years.
The actress married her fifth husband, theatre boss Gibson, in 2002.
- 4/23/2008
- WENN
Joan Collins believes her fifth marriage - to a man 32 years her junior, will be for the long term. The former Dynasty star, 68, has announced she intends to marry Percy Gibson, 36, in London in February , and insists this marriage is "for keeps". Collins, whose last marriage, to fourth husband Peter Holm, lasted just 13 months, says, "I wouldn't be doing this if it was not for keeps." And, at a champagne party at her home last night, she told gathered friends, who included Ruby Wax, Sir Michael Caine and British TV presenter Cilla Black, "I'm very happy, and very much in love." Collins, who first got married in 1952 to matinee idol Maxwell Reed, went on to marry and divorce actor Anthony Newley, record label boss Ron Kass and one-time pop star Holm. She met Gibson, a producer, when she was starring in a touring production of the play Love Letters. He proposed to her in May, but Collins kept the wedding news secret from everyone except her children, brother and sister.
- 12/20/2001
- WENN
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