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Don't forget to pick up your copy of the latest issue of Tatler magazine featuring a sensational shot of Joan on the cover with an exclusive interview inside... 


She’s the A-list’s favourite lunch date – famously entertaining, devastatingly sharp – and has remained Hollywood royalty for seven glamorous decades. Time waits for no man, but it wouldn’t dare take on Joan Collins

By Rebecca Cope

Hollywood royalty Joan Collins is our May cover star who is dressed up in diamonds for our shoot, speaking to Emma Elwick-Bates about her fifth husband Percy, why she admires Theresa May, and what she thinks of Liam Payne.

She reveals that her fifth husband Percy, who she recently celebrated her eighteenth wedding anniversary with, often disagrees with her brusqueness, explaining: '[He] says to me sometimes when I'm doing business, "You were very rude to them." And I say, "That's how you have to do business. It's not a social tea party."' 

Indeed, this shrewdness extends to all areas of her life. Still in incredible shape, she recently had a painful Pilates accident which saw her rushed to hospital, but she decided to keep it from the press: 'I didn’t let anybody know. I wasn’t trying to be secretive, but if people find out you’re in the hospital, the next thing you know it’s news.'

Elsewhere in our interview she talks of her admiration for Theresa May, admitting she was rather taken by her when she saw her last year at the Conservative Party Conference. 'She breezed in looking great in Roland Mouret and was brilliant,' she says. 'What I like about her is that she reminds me of one of my headmistresses. They weren't full of personality and vim, but they were strong, and we respected their strengths. She's surmounted all these hurdles that have been thrown in her face.'

In the celebrity world, she knows everyone, and recounts a recent meeting with Liam Payne, who introduced himself to her at the airport. 'He came up and said, "Hello. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm me." He's very nice.' On his reported romance with Naomi Campbell, she quips, 'I think she has possibly the best body of anybody I've ever seen. It's amazing, really fantastic.'