I am not Edina: inside the real world of Absolutely Fabulous's Jennifer Saunders

By Michael Idato
Updated July 24 2016 - 5:13am, first published 5:00am
Jennifer Saunders as Edina and Joanna Lumley as Patsy in their new film verson of <i>Absolutely Fabulous</i>. Photo: David Appleby
Jennifer Saunders as Edina and Joanna Lumley as Patsy in their new film verson of <i>Absolutely Fabulous</i>. Photo: David Appleby
Jennifer Saunders says her real world of family and grandchildren could not be more different to that of her screen character Edina. Photo: Getty Images/Gareth Cattermole
Jennifer Saunders says her real world of family and grandchildren could not be more different to that of her screen character Edina. Photo: Getty Images/Gareth Cattermole
Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley during Stella McCartney's Christmas lights event last year. Photo: Getty Images/John Phillips
Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley during Stella McCartney's Christmas lights event last year. Photo: Getty Images/John Phillips
Comedian Adrian Edmonson and Jennifer Saunders attend a party to mark the reopening of the imperial War Museum. Photo: Getty Image/Ian Gavan
Comedian Adrian Edmonson and Jennifer Saunders attend a party to mark the reopening of the imperial War Museum. Photo: Getty Image/Ian Gavan
Good friends off stage, Joanna  Lumley, Stella McCartney and Jennifer Saunders pose in the Winners Room at the British Fashion Awards last year at the London Coliseum. Photo: Getty Images/Anthony Harvey
Good friends off stage, Joanna Lumley, Stella McCartney and Jennifer Saunders pose in the Winners Room at the British Fashion Awards last year at the London Coliseum. Photo: Getty Images/Anthony Harvey
Patsy (Joanna Lumley) and Edina (Jennifer Saunders) in their element chugging champagne, in a scene from the new 20th Century Fox film. Photo: David Appleby
Patsy (Joanna Lumley) and Edina (Jennifer Saunders) in their element chugging champagne, in a scene from the new 20th Century Fox film. Photo: David Appleby

Her alter ego, the noisy and vivacious Edina Monsoon, is clinging desperately to a crumbling mantle at the apex of London's PR scene, but the real world of Jennifer Saunders could not be more different.

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