Joanna Lumley has been cutting her own hair in lockdown.
The 73-year-old actress has always cut and dyed her own hair "out of utter laziness" and urged people at home to "be brave" and try to do their own hair during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Speaking on ‘This Morning’, she said: "It’s utter laziness and hairdressers have given up on me. Be brave, it’ll grow out. I’ve been cutting hair since I was 14 and I love it. I’m also privileged to have seen some of the best hairdressers in the world at work."
Joanna also spoke about the importance of keeping a routine during lockdown and encouraged people to try to schedule their days where possible, to stop them becoming one big blur.
She said: "I think it’s important to keep a routine. I get up, get dressed, if I’m coming on TV, I put on make-up. I try to look as nice as possible. I try to keep a routine to the day, to have a pattern. You need to make a day of it, otherwise it becomes one big-long beige slice and it can be very dispiriting. So keep your spirits up and keep treats, my treat is reading."
Production has currently halted on Joanna’s TV show ‘Finding Alice’ with Keeley Hawes and Joanna has encouraged people to donate to The Actor’s Centre in London as she is worried about up and coming actors because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
She explained: "What we are doing in this lockdown is binge-watching. Entertainment is a colossal part of keeping the nation and the world’s spirits up during this lockdown period. If all of those sources of acting dries up, we’ll be reduced to watching only repeats all the time.
"The Actor’s Centre in London, which gets no public funding at all, is just begging us to say this is where acting is, it’s a hub for actors who are training, taking classes and it keeps the seed of acting alive. So when the actors dwindle away and go, there won’t be any shows to put on.
"I’m speaking for the sort of hidden part of charity. Lots of us are giving charity to the obvious and immediate things and that’s just how it should be but maybe if people had £20 to give to charity, they could give £10 to this lot and £10 to something unexpected to The Actor’s Centre to keep them afloat."
Joanna Lumley cutting own hair during lockdown
