Joan Collins

And one of the writers in this anthology is actually Tara Newley, who is the daughter of Tony Newley, the famous singer, composer, actor.

And her mother is Dame Joan Collins, still alive at 93.

Her aunt was Jackie Collins.

And Tara told me last year, one time I met her in London, that her aunt, who sold hundreds of millions of books, found it hard to get publishers at times.

So you saw a lyric about holding hands, and you thought about holding, what, Dieter's hand or something?

I would rather, well, I would rather hold Sophia Loren- Joan Collins or Susan Sarandon's hands.

This is not about you.

It's about Rover.

no i honestly i don't think you do and i really don't think you do because um a few a few things i'm going to kind of by the way i have a scatterbrain of a head so i'm going to jump around from topic to topic to thing to thing and all that so scilla black said many things she was really good for these little one-line anecdotes and lessons in life you know this this is a working-class girl from you know from liverpool who's the host of blind date and obviously i worked on the show, but I got to hang out with her quite a lot.

We spent probably one or even two nights a week where she would be filming and then we'd go for dinner or she'd be out with other people and she'd go just come along to me and my agent who, and we would just, we'd go back to hers after a night out, two o'clock in the morning, we'd be there just chatting and she would just be telling stories and it was always, her stories were like, oh, and then Joan Collins said this and then along came John Lennon and then along came Paul McCartney and all that, that's her world.

so you learn from that level of entertainment and one of the things she said is um this business is a tightrope and she goes the minute you start looking around at what others are doing or start to self-congratulate yourself like hey check me out aren't i doing amazing she says you'll fall off the tightrope she says don't don't look up just focus on the next step and people are going to say stuff people are going to hurt you people are going to bring you down or even big you up oh god you're amazing that will throw you off as well because you'll start to believe your own hype so i don't i really don't feel i don't feel successful now i feel like it's all been a process um a few years ago i read the the will smith book will and he talks about building a brick wall and how his dad made a brick wall and he said um you never set out to make a brick wall.

You just, you set out to just lay one brick and then lay the brick next to it.

I'll just give you some of the ideas.

Some, some of the celebrities at ringside, Bo Derek, Jack Nicholson, Tip O'Neill, Joan Collins, Tom Selleck, Don Rickles, and the great Gene Hackman were all at this fight.

So, and, and it is a record, uh, pay-per-view buy at the time.

Um, a record gross for the fight.

So

much so that last night I was at a spectator party who helped nothing with Joan Collins, of all people.

Oh, gee.

Okay.

This is in no particular order.

Kate Mara, Connie Britton, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Dylan McDermott, Zachary Quinto, Emmy Roberts, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Lady Gaga, Chloe Sevigny, Gabourey Sidibe, Jeff Hiller, James Cromwell, Macaulay Culkin, Alison Pill, Grace Gummer, Lena Dunham, Billy Eichner, Lily Robb, Mark Margolis, Michael Chiklis, Cuba Gooding Jr., Leslie Jordan, Billy Lord, Leslie Grossman, Adina Porter, Joan Collins, Cody Fern, Jamie Brewer, John Carroll Lynch, and Neil McDonoghue were just the ones I wrote down.

And there's so many more.

Zach Villa's in there as well as the Night Stalker in 1984.