What I’ve learnt: Patsy Kensit

‘Liz Taylor was amazing. She would take off the diamond she was wearing and use it to play catch with us’
Patsy Kensit
Patsy Kensit
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Patsy Kensit, 45, was a child actor before joining pop band Eighth Wonder in the Eighties. She went on to star in films such as Absolute Beginners and Lethal Weapon 2 and the TV series Emmerdale and Holby City. Married four times, she has two children, one each from her marriages to rock stars Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher.

I started to go grey overnight after my mother died when I was 23. I think a full head of silver-grey hair can be very attractive – look at Helen Mirren or Honor Blackman – but I’ve got a few more years to pretend it isn’t there.

With my hysterectomy, it has been a scary time. It’s almost as if I’ve gone through a grown-up